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Hacking the Game Boy cartridge protection

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In this video we hack the GameBoy cartridge protection by building our own GameBoy cartridge using an FPGA!

You can find the FPGA source-code on my Github here: https://github.com/ghidraninja/gameboy-fpga-cartridge/

- ModernVintageGame on the CIC chips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8PYE8A-WEw
- The Gbdev wiki: https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page

Equipment used in the video:
- FPGA Board: Digilent Arty 7
- Level shifters: TXS0108E
- A GameBoy...

Errata:
- I messed up the resolution - the logo is 48px by 8px, not 96px by 16px!

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