Guide · Game Boy Color

Tiles on the Game Boy Color

Checked against sourcesLast reviewed 30 October 2026

What a tile is on the Game Boy Color, and how to start a ROM with GBDK ^{[1, 2]}.

Facts

Kind: Development
Difficulty: Beginner
Applies to: Game Boy Color

A tile is a small picture

The Game Boy Color draws backgrounds and sprites from 8 by 8 pixel tiles ^[1]. The tiles on this page are Retroable's. They are not from Nintendo.

A tile is a small picture the console repeats to draw a world. These tiles are Retroable's. They are not from any console maker.

Start a ROM

GBDK-2020 is a C toolchain that links a Game Boy or Game Boy Color ROM ^[2]. Retroable uses the same console family when it compiles a game from a sentence.

Sources

Every number in brackets links here. The arrow after a source leads back to each place that cites it.

1.
Pan Docs. gbdev. Web page. Accessed 30 October 2026. Source record
2.
GBDK-2020 API documentation. GBDK-2020. Web page. Accessed 30 October 2026. Source record

Image credits

Eight Retroable-original 8 by 8 colour tiles in a row.: Retroable original tiles. own-work.

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