Mental Respirator (GBC Demo)

Basically a demo done by someone named Phantasy which shows many effects that the Gameboy Colour is capable of pulling off. One word to describe it: Phantastic!

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Entertainment

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• mental
• respirator
• demo
• phantasy
• gameboy
• colour
• color
• gbc

[davidrevelj]

GBC is definitely 8 bits for calculations, but it has a 16 bit address bus so it has an address space of 64kb. The CPU is very similar to Zilog z80 which was used in many home computers in the 80's =)

[CrashManEXE]

Thanks for the information, and thanks for the video response also :D

[ApeEscaper493]

We may call the GBC "8Bit", but this is proof that it is NOT 8Bit, as 8Bit cannot handle this kind of animation. This is why I believe it to be 16Bit.

[CrashManEXE]

Or maybe 12bit.

[malducci]

@ApeEscaper493 Or maybe you just understand what 8bit even means ;)

[CrashManEXE]

@malducci - Just so you know, ApeEscaper has left YouTube so don't expect a response from him.

[Doom2Guy]

It's a shame systems become obsolete just when devs know how to get the most out of them

If only there were games that used effects like that!

[SuperSmashDolls]

The "Gin and tonic trick" in this demo is badly demonstrated - on real hardware or an accurate emulator (newer bgb revisions) you see actual per-line scaling.

[SuperSmashDolls]

@ApeEscaper493 Uh no, it -is- an 8bit data bus. It's just, well, it has 8mhz of CPU cycles and extremely exploitable hardware.

[jigglypuffgirl2008]

Wow... Trippy.... :3

[antzrhere]

The GB CPU is 8 bit as I/O ports are 8bit.

However, the GBs 8bit registers can double as three 16bit regs, and these are used to address 16bits of memory.

The GB CPU CAN do 16bit ADD and SUB with carry arithmetic (although these are slower and essentially can be replaced with two 8bit Add + Carry ops) , but most other arithmetic is restricted to 8bit at a time.

Even an all-8bit CPU can be made to perform 32/64bit maths in software at any rate.

[MarioFan82]

@_@.

That still makes me feel trippy!

[MacWii]

Well, 12 Bit for data transfer & Calcs, but not for graphs

[schoolfilmer]

The music, once again, is fantastic. I even recorded it on an emulator!

The effects are... (Has anyone seen my jaws?) jawdropping.