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Game Boy Advance BIOS

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Developer Credit#

// Coded by Kawasedo

The five keys (normal, multi, joybus, prng multiplier, and constant) are used by the GBA to decrypt multiboot images sent over the Link Cable. When combined, they form this message from the developer.

Kawasedo

The last two keys also appear later in the BIOS.

"Kawasedo" is a nickname used by Tomohiro Kawase, a Nintendo employee most notable for his work on official emulation projects such as the NES emulators included in Animal Crossing and Metroid Prime.

References#


  1. Daily eSports, via Google Translate: "DaewonCI plans to complete the contract with Nintendo before June 1, when overseas sales of the Game Boy Advance begin, and start supplying the product in earnest from June to supply about 100,000 game consoles in Korea for one year."↩︎
  2. @NintendoAUNZ: "On this day 20 years ago, the Game Boy Advance was released in Australia and New Zealand. What's your favourite memory of this handheld console?"↩︎