A Look At The Game Boy Bootstrap: Let The Fun Begin!

THE WAY THE GAME BOY BOOTS

Let us study the Game Boy’s bootstrap.  Every time the console is turned on, this special, 256-byte program, is mapped to the beginning of the Game Boy’s Address Space, the Program Counter Register (‘PC’) is set to 0x0000 and the ‘real stuff’ begins.

Booting the Game Boy with the RealBoy Emulator