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Gekkio's Technical Blog
Personal blog · gekkio.fi/bloghardwaregames
Gekkio's Technical Blog is a personal blog at gekkio.fi about hardware and games. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Joonas Javanainen's technical blog covers Game Boy hardware, including CPU analysis and a technical reference document. HN readers link it as a resource for Game Boy development and emulator writing.
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Most-linked posts?
- Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-18
What Hacker News says?
List of links and support documents for those interested in Gameboy Development (and example Homebrew ROMs) Gameboy Dev: https://gbdev.io/ PanDocs (tech reference): https://gbdev.io/pandocs/ Gameboy Tech Ref Doc (gekkio): https://gekkio.fi/files/gb-docs/gbctr.pdf Game Boy Development Kit 2020 (GBDK-2020) Reboot: https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020/docs/api/ GBDK-2020 Github: https://github.com/gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020…
Comment linking /files/gb-docs/gbctr.pdf
on “Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web”Submitted Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges as a story · 281 points
HN discussionYou might want to check Joonas Javanainen's work, who's doing great analysis of the CPU https://gekkio.fi
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on “Writing a Game Boy emulator”Submitted Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PCB Gallery 1 (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion