In the video department, the GBHD Color uses linear scaling to achieve a 5x 800×720 letterbox image.
Note that Gamebox Systems are also offering an option they’re calling EZ case kit that doesn’t require any physical modification to be done to the motherboard. Only then, and in conjunction with the custom FPGA-based GBHD Color custom PCB, can the original motherboard fit inside of what Gamebox Systems are calling a full case kit. In order to consolize a GBC, an original motherboard must be first provided by the user, preferably from a unit with a defective screen, then that same donor PCB must be severed in half, separating the bottom controller/speaker part from the top main CPU/RAM section (the part that actually matters here). Less than a year after announcing and releasing their first consolizer project, the VGA-based DMG-Consolizer, Gamebox Systems just revealed their second entry into their Gameboy consolization line of products: The GBHD Color Consolizer.Īs the name implies, the GBHD Color Consolizer aims at turning the original DMG’s successor, the Gameboy Color aka CGB, into a small console that outputs 720p digital video (and 32khz analog converted to digital audio) through HDMI and is controllable via a single 7-pin SNES controller port.