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Terms you may encounter when speaking with GB Studio developers.
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Game Boy and GB Studio Abbreviations
- DMG = Dot Matrix Game
- Nintendo's internal codename for the original Game Boy
- GBC = Game Boy Color
- Hardware-compatible upgrade to the original Game Boy that introduced a color display and several other features.
- SGB = Super Game Boy
- A Nintendo-licensed device that allowed the Super Nintendo to play Game Boy games.
- Included many features that were almost never used.
- GBS = GB Studio
- A game engine and editor that makes it easier and faster to create games for DMG and GBC.
- GBVM = Game Boy Virtual Machine
- The engine that GB Studio games run on.
- This same acronym is also used for the language that controls the virtual machine.
- GBDK = GameBoy Development Kit 2020
- The Game Boy C library and API that GBVM leverages.
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