gameboy floppy disk drive

Posted Apr 25th 2005 7:41AM by Vince Veneziani
Filed under: gameboy hacks

We like old hacks like this! I mean, the gameboy color and the floppy disk drive are both so passe, so why not use them together to try to make something cool? Well apparently the french can, so props to Jean Francois for doing this. The link we give you is the Google-english-translated page so you can actually read more about it. this doesn't really serve an insane purpose like storing all 10,000 of your pirated GB ROMS on the disk, but it's very in depth about the technical advantages and aspects of doing this project. very nice work....does the '90s proud.

thanks [togi]

Reader Comments

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1. Could somone please make a more detailed or simplfied version of this for me im kinda dum so I could really use as well as apreaite if somone did so if you please send it to bch_6@hotmail.com

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Matt Sobo

2. Hi there is there any way that i can transfere the save game files from the pc to the playstation 2 memory card can i use the usb flash disk and how is that ? please help

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Ashraf Abdul jabbar

3. Ummm... Wtf. The french is hard to understand, someone should put it into regular english...

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Jakenstein

4. it's old skool and all that.. but i have an old black & white (greyscale) gameboy... i've looked and looked, but can never find any tutorials on how to mod this thing...I want to use the LCD from it for a display on my case that shows temp, music, uptime, and such nonsensicle information... anyone with ideas, or information.. please help !! ArcAiN6

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by ArcAiN6

5. A type of disk doctor ie. every nintendo console has had one, maybe incorporating a zip disk (would sit on the back, simmillar size to the unit)or flash card, with a usb port for loading roms from yer pc or directly onto the memory via the cartridge. There is no reason why this cant be done....i dont think ;o)!!

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by matto

6. and it has to play mp3's

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by ryan

7. Famicom disk system lives! :o

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by fuchikoma

8. I don't care if it's old this time, and I don't care if it's not that useful. This is a very cool hack that required alot of work and effort. IMHO this is an awsome hack that we need more of. I agree with jamima69 that we don't need any more battery packs w/ a different case/ plug unless it's got something more original or dificult to make. Something like a homemade laptop battery that fits the original slot, adds 2x the life, and has a homemade battery smartchip would be an exception.

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by carpespasm

9. I wonder if you could use this to boot contiki on the GBC? http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/ports/index.html

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Mycroftxxx

10. Holy crap, this is an old one. I remember reading this one AGES ago. Ohwell, I might read it again.

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by pufuwozu

11. Linux for GameBoy around the bend?

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by theblunderbuss

12. well,it's not a very useful hack (imho)-but no doubt it is a hack. if i saw one more battery pack p.o.s. link,i think i'd cry.

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by jamima69

13. Display .jpgs . That way you could check out your photo's from one of those ancient digital cameras that wrote to floppies.

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by TVtheFleshtone

14. I don't think uClinux really supports the z80, probably because there are no z80 machines with enough oomph to justify running Linux on them vs. some sort of embedded OS.

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by rav

15. It runs a z80 proc. wint ~128k ram. The problem is ram and the lack of a mcu. I think you could run uclinux on it if it had more than the paltry ~128k ram.

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Josh

16. now to get it to boot into debian ....

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by barbobot

17. suppose the next step would be to give the gameboy an onboard flash memory. that you could then store all your roms and interface it with the computer to add/remove them

Posted at 3:26PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by nick

18. Plz can some one make a step by step tutorial for this?
If so kan you email it to Kito_link@spray.se ?
I realy want this but the explanation is a bit complicated.
Its not the same diagram type where i live...

Posted at 2:39PM on Apr 23rd 2007 by Kito

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