Game Boy Player Start-Up Disc

The Game Boy Player is an add-on for the GameCube that lets you play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games on your TV.

Meanwhile the Game Boy Player Start-Up Disc software is required in order to use the add-on. Certain GBA games use a different color palette and/or enable controller rumble if it detects the Game Boy Player, although Game Boy and Game Boy Color games don't get the Super Game Boy enhancements they normally get when played on TV. The start-up disc software is also not compatible with Game Boy Advance Video cartridges due to copyright holders of the shows/movies specifically telling Majesco not to, though frankly they'd look and sound horrible on a TV anyways.

While the official start-up disc is hard to get your hands on today, homebrew alternatives like the Game Boy Interface replaces the need for the official disc thus making the players themselves useful once again. You can even play those pesky Game Boy Advance Video cartridges that were previously blocked from the official disc.

Debugging Text#

***Creating GbpSystemObject
***Allocating GbpSystemObject
***Creating Display object
***--Done
***Initializing JFramework
***-- Done
GB-Video
GB-Audio
aramStrm
Exit by DVD_FATAL_ERROR
Mem S: %d , C: %d
GP status %d%d%d%d%d%d -->
GP hang due to XF stall bug.
GP hang due to unterminated primitive.
GP hang due to illegal instruction.
GP appears to be not hung (waiting for input).
GP is in unknown state.
JFWDisplay
:::Cannot alloc memory (0x%x byte).
:::ERROR! appendUsedList
:::Heap may be broken. (block = %x)
:::: Bad Block
:::addr %08x: bad heap signature. (%c%c)
:::addr %08x: bad next pointer (%08x)
abort
:::addr %08x: bad previous pointer (%08x)
:::addr %08x: bad used list(REV) (%08x)
:::addr %08x: bad block size (%08x)
:::bad total memory block size (%08X, %08X)
:::there is some error in this heap!
attr  address:   size    gid aln   prev_ptr next_ptr
xxxxx  %08x:   --------  --- ---  (-------- --------)
abort
%s %08x: %08x  %3d %3d  (%08x %08x)
(Used Blocks)
(Free Blocks)
%d / %d bytes (%6.2f%%) used (U:%d F:%d)
+---------------JKRExpHeap
| Align Group  size    ( prev , next )
| %08x      %2x  %3d  %6x  (%08x %08x)
| ---- FreeFirst
| ---- FreeLast
| ---- UsedFirst
| ---- UsedLast
+---------------End
JKRThread:%x  OSThread:%x  Load:ID:%d  (%s)
JKRThreadSwitch: currentHeap destroyed.
total: switch:%3d  time:%d(%df)
[%10s] switch:%5d  cost:%2d.%d%%
Cannot create JKRTask Manager.
:::address not 32Byte aligned.
direction = %x
source = %x
destination = %x
length = %x
:::??? bad sequence
Sorry, not prepared for SZP archive.
:::CompArchive:
bad mode.
illegal resource.
cannot close DVD file
:::Not support SZP with offset read
JUTTexture: TLUT is NULL
JUTResFont: Unknown data block
SYSTEM RESET
MACHINE CHECK
EXTERNAL INTERRUPT
ALIGNMENT
FLOATING POINT
DECREMENTER
SYSTEM CALL
PERFORMACE MONITOR
BREAK POINT
SYSTEM INTERRUPT
THERMAL INTERRUPT PROTECTION
F%02d:+Inf
F%02d:-Inf
F%02d: 0.0
F%02d:%+.3E
FPR
TRACE
Address:
BackChain
LR save
Suppress trace.
%08X:  %08X    %08X
CONTEXT:%08XH  (%s EXCEPTION)
FPE: Invalid operation
Infinity - Infinity
Infinity / Infinity
Infinity * 0
Invalid compare
Software request
Invalid square root
Invalid integer convert
FPE: Overflow
FPE: Underflow
FPE: Zero division
FPE: Inexact result
SRR0:%08XH
SRR1:%08XH
DSISR:%08XH
DAR:%08XH
GPR
R%02d:%08XH
%s %s:%x section:%d
GPRMAP
R%02d: %08XH
no information
no register which seem to address.
SRR0MAP
SRR0: %08XH
MSR:%08XH
FPSCR:%08XH
******** EXCEPTION OCCURRED! ********
FrameMemory:%XH
[%08X]: .%s [%08X: %XH]  %s