
Early models of the MGB lacked the battery indicator LED found next to the screen. It uses two AAA batteries and has a slightly improved screen with a gray reflection film compared to the DMG’s green. Game Boy Pocket / MGB-001 - (1996) This model is a much smaller redesign of the original DMG-01 Game Boy. There are DIY solutions to fix this clock speed inaccuracy. A later model, only released in Japan, would correct this by giving the “Super Game Boy 2” its very own clock, as well as adding a link port. The original Super Game Boy ran a small percent faster than the handheld Game Boys because it used the SNES as the source of its clock/CPU speed. Later, games would add Super Game Boy enhancements, creating more than four colors on the screen, special borders, extra music tracks, and in some rare cases even entire Super Nintendo games that cannot be played on the Game Boy at all. It has the ability to “colorize” games by assigning different colors to the four shades of gray. Super Game Boy / SNS-027 - An accessory for the SNES, the Super Game Boy was essentially a DMG Game Boy without the screen, link port, and buttons. PIL DMG consoles use “chip on board” package components and thus the PCBs are covered in epoxy blobs.
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The “PIL” series only added new shell colors and was not full a hardware revision. In 1995 the “Play It Loud” series released. The original “gray brick” was released in 1989.
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Game Boy / DMG-01 - Later nicknamed “DMG” after its product code “Dot Matrix Game”. Check out this comprehensive list for more info and examples. All systems came in different variations or colors. Here is a comprehensive list of them (in order of release). The Game Boy line saw many different models and revisions over its 16-year lifespan. There’s a new section of the wiki that has a more beginner oriented look at Game Boys: New Users Contentsīolded items go to separate pages within this wiki whereas the rest of the links go to items on this page. I’ve tried diving in to other hobbies only to be turned off by the type of information available. NEW Confused/intimidated by the sheer amount of information in this wiki? I don’t blame you. Notice any mistakes or have any suggestions for improvement? Please submit a pull request via github.

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Welcome to the Game Boy wiki! This wiki aims to answer most of the common questions, list useful guides and tools, and various other things about playing, modding and maintaining your Game Boys.
