300kB: 98-03-01: List of Game Boy cartridges and what memory bank controller they use Everything You Always Wanted To Know About GAMEBOY but were afraid to ask Many thanks to Heiko Behrens, Brian Gomberg, and Varun Reddy for reviewing drafts of this article and for their work on these projects. MBC Banked cartridges (Memory Bank Controllers) Cartridges with MBCs allow the the Game Boy to work with ROMS up to 8MB in size and with RAM up to 128kB. All licensed third party companies were required to use these two mappers (if their game was larger than 32KB) and did not use their own custom hardware except in a very limited way.
GameBoy video controller can display up to 40 sprites either in 8x8 or in 8x16 mode. Power Up Sequence - Reducing Power Consumption - Sprite RAM Bug.
Gameboy memory bank controller Bank Locator: String number of the string that identifies the physically labeled bank where the memory device is located.
