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TGS: Wide Boy Gets an Upgrade

The developer utility to play Game Boy Color games on a monitor has been modified.

By IGN Staff
Updated: Jun 22, 2012 6:24 pm
Posted: Apr 1, 2000 1:00 am
Many people ask how we grab screenshots and videoclips of Game Boy Color games. While there are many means to do it, the one we use most often is a developer's tool called the Wide Boy 64. It's a cartridge that plugs into the Nintendo 64, and through the use of the N64's controller, you can play the games on the system as if they were on a Game Boy Color...but on a TV. Developers and publishers use this to put their games on display for multiple people to see at once. And since the Wide Boy 64 is quite expensive, Nintendo will never release a commercial version of it.

The downside to the Wide Boy is that gamers can only see the game on the TV and not an actual Game Boy Color, since they have to play it using a Nintendo 64 controller. A new version of the Wide Boy has now eliminated this problem.

At the Tokyo Game Show, most every Game Boy game was using the newly-modified version of the Wide Boy 64. The new version actually has a modified Game Boy Color attached to the front of the cartridge through a thick cable ¿ users play the game on the Game Boy system, and can see how the game looks on both the Game Boy Color screen while putting the game on display for other people to see.

Again, the Wide Boy 64 will not be released to the public, but we thought it was interesting enough to tell you all about it.

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