Technica information on Gameboy Advance PCB and catridge connectors?

Elektor magazine published a design a while ago for a cartridge that converted a standard Gameboy into a scope. Since the Gameboy Advance is compatible with Gameboy cartridges, there may be some similarity between the cartridge pinouts? Sorry, I'm not sure what issue it was in, but I think they have an index on the website, so try Google?

I found it, it's on sale but it doesn't have information on the actual design.

Thanks for the lead.

Kelvin

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Your Googling skills obviously aren't up to much, here is the complete article:

If only it could have managed even 5MHz we might have been able to convince our boss that we all needed one in our toolkits.

Peter

Hiya,

I was looking at this sort of thing once as well, I found

I hope these are of some assistance.

Paul

Thank you very much!

Kelvin

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Yea. I am reading Xport.

Thank you.

Kelvin

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Gameboy Classic cartridges uses 5 volt signaling where as Gameboy Advance cartridges use 3.3 volts. This is used by the Advance to detect the cartridge type and hence select which pin-out to use with the cartridge as they differ. The Classic uses 16 bit address bus with an 8 bit data bus while the Advance multiplexes a 24 bit address bus and 16 data bus on the same pins. I don't think that you can't execute ARM instructions from a Classic cartridge and hence are restricted to the Classic's Z80ish environment. You might find the following PDF useful. It contains details of the Advance's cartridge interface.