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title: "Wolfenstein 3D on Gameboy Color"
description: "\\ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/2270/) defined the FPS genre in a way no one could have predicted. Just like the (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy) defined portable…"
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author: "James Lewis"
date: "2016-12-20T15:00:41Z"
lastmod: "2016-12-19T18:14:04Z"
categories: ["around-the-web","blog","retro-gaming"]
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# Wolfenstein 3D on Gameboy Color


[YouTube video JfMpG3RW_kU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMpG3RW_kU)


[Wolfenstein 3D](http://store.steampowered.com/app/2270/) defined the FPS genre in a way no one could have predicted. Just like the [Gameboy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy) defined portable gaming in a way no one could have predicted. Cartridge based computing and gaming offered something that disk (or disc?) based media never could: additional hardware.

The most famous example of additional hardware is the "SuperFX" chip that debuted with the [SNES game Starfox](http://starfox.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Fox_(game)). (It was in used in others in addition to a successor.) Most NES cartridges had other hardware too: mappers, sound generators, additional ram, etc.

Fast forward to today. By adding a [Cortex-M0 ARM processor](https://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-m0.php) to a Gameboy Color cartridge, [Anders Granlund](http://www.happydaze.se) is now able to run Wolfenstein 3D on an original, unmodified, Gameboy Color.

You might consider this process cheating since the co-processor on the cartridge is much more powerful than the Gameboy Color's hardware. From a practical perspective adding would have made a ridiculously expensive cartridge. However, when you think about it, is this any different than the [SuperFX](http://www.anthrofox.org/starfox/superfx.html) or SVP ([Sega Virtual Process0r](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis#Sega_Virtua_Processor))? Who cares, it is just plain cool!

Go here to check out [Wolfenstein 3D on Gameboy Color](http://www.happydaze.se/wolf/) and more details on the "Wolf" co-processor.