Game Boy Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Game Boy BSOD
A little joke Blue Screen of Death simulator (BSOD) for the Game Boy with various versions of the screen and different operating systems.
Press Left/Right/A/B to cycle through the screens. A random one will be chosen on startup (on a flash cart or normal emulator. the web emulator doesn't seem to save SRAM consistently at the moment).
Currently only for Game Boy Color, it will show a game boy style crash screen on non-color models when starting up
BSOD's for
- Windows 10/11
- Windows 8
- Windows 9x
- Windows Longhorn
- Mac OS classic
- Max OS X
- Amiga
- GBStudio
The Game Boy can be "rebooted" at any time to show a BIOS style boot screen by pressing SELECT+START+A+B all together.
There are periodic Flash SD Card (Everdrive, EZFlash) boot errors on startup and simulated reboot.
Download
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Development log
- Reboot to a BIOS boot screen :)47 days ago
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Put it on a cart, was surprised the QR code actually worked.
I kinda want it to be an Easter Egg link instead of the standard Microsoft link, but I'm just amazed it worked at all.
You're the first person I've heard mention trying it out. Cool to hear about it.
Into the idea of an easter egg link instead. If any ideas come to you, feel free to share and maybe I can integrate them. Some of these might be plausible alternates perhaps:
- Pandocs (technical reference for programming Game Boy hardware)
- GBDK or GBStudio homepages or help documentation
- The ROM's itch.io page (this page)
Added an updated version with a better QR code url :)