Intellivision for Gameboy Color development kit + notes, etc. on eBay

[Carl Mueller Jr]

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 290850310766

[Rev]

http://intellivisionrevolution.com/entries/intellivision-auction/intellivision-gameboy-development-kit-up-for-auction

[Carl Mueller Jr]

By the way, I've also updated the description and added a video showing some gameplay footage (BurgerTime). Here's the description again:

 

This is a truly one-of-a-kind auction.

I am the developer of Intellivision for GameBoy Color (hereafter I4GBC), the world's first Intellivision emulator for a portable system (developed between 2000-2001), and this is the actual development system I used to develop and test I4GBC.

Not only is this development system historically significant (being the absolute first in the world, and authored by me, Carl Mueller, Jr.), but also I4GBC itself will allow you to play over 60 Intellivision games on your Nintendo GameBoy Color system. (It will also work on the GameBoy Advance, Micro, Super GameBoy, and on the GameBoy adapter for GameCube, to play on the big screen.)

As a side note, I also developed the first Intellivision emulator for an 8-bit system (Intellivision for NES), and the world's first Intellivision emulator between 1995-1996 (INTVPC) that was eventually released by the Blue Sky Rangers as part of their Intellivision Lives! CD-ROM package. I'm also the author of DK Arcade and D2K Arcade for the Intellivision.

Here's a summary of the items I'm offering in this auction, all of which were used to develop and test the Intellivision for Gameboy Color emulator.

- GameBoy Color unit (purple-tinted, transparent shell)

- Cartridge burning adapter with cable

- 64 MB reprogrammable cartridge (can contain 60 emulated Intellivision games)

- Carrying case and wormlight

- Notebook full of development notes and sketches (for examples, see above photos)

- Complete commented I4GBC source code

- MS-word document describing the control mappings for every supported game

I'm willing to sign, date, or write whatever you like to authenticate that this is the one and only system used to develop the emulator.

I'll also send you a copy of the software necessary to compile your own Intellivision ROMs so that they can be flashed to the included development cartridge (no copyrighted software is included in this sale – you must have the original BIN and CFG files for each supported game). The software incidentally contains the full commented source code to the Intellivision for Gameboy Color emulator.

Here the games supported by the emulator:

Tower of Doom

Bodyslam Super Pro Wrestling

Chip Shot Golf

Super Pro Decathlon

Diner

Pole Position

Slamdunk Super Pro Basketball

Thunder Castle

Thin Ice

Vectron

World Championship Baseball

Congo Bongo

Pinball

Atlantis

Beauty and the Beast

Blockade Runner

BurgerTime

Buzz Bombers

Centipede

Demon Attack

Donkey Kong Jr

Dracula

Fathom

Ice Trek

Lock `n' Chase

Locomotion

Micro Surgeon

Mission X

Mountain Madness Super Pro Skiing

Popeye

Q Bert

Sewer Sam

Shark Shark

Slapshot Super Pro Hockey

Sub Hunt

Swords and Serpents

Treasures Of Tarmin

Tropical Trouble

Truckin'

Tutankham

Venture

Whitewater

Zaxxon

Armor Battle

Astrosmash!

Bowling

Donkey Kong

Dragon Fire

Frog Bog

Happy Trails

Night Stalker

Pitfall

Reversi

Sharp Shot

Skiing

Snafu

Space Armada

Space Battle

Space Hawk

Star Strike

Star Wars

Triple Action

Tron Deadly Discs

　

　

[Carl Mueller Jr]

Updated the description to include the following link:

 

 

This is a graphic illustration of how Intellivision for Gameboy Color dynamically builds and modifies its background palette to accommodate new writes to the background table. It also updates the video RAM with new patterns, and sometimes the same pattern is duplicated several times, if it needs to be displayed in several different color combinations. This is a technique I invented back in 2000-2001 which is one part of the "magic" that allows an 8-bit system like the GameBoy Color to emulate a system as sophisticated as the Intellivision.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Carl Mueller Jr

[Carl Mueller Jr]

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Huh? I made it pretty clear that the package includes no copyrighted software and that you would need to include your own ROMs for use with the emulator. What did I do wrong?

[Rev]

Who knows, Ebay is weird like that....most Cuttle Carts get removed as well.

 

And I was the only bidder on your auction too!

[+evg2000]

I believe it was the flash cart that is the problem

[IntellivisionDude]

Put it up on Gamegavel instead. Less fees and they allow stuff like this. As long as you advertise it to the right people it should still get a Rev bid. lol