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April 22, 2005 - 2:34pm — Rochelle

One of my daughters just mentioned that she thought she had a virus on her GameBoy Advance. Is that possible?

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April 22, 2005 - 6:52pm — kylere

No with a caveat

Unless she has done something like add a modified chip, I cannot see it happening. A serious search reveals nothing of the sort in existance. Gameboys and their ilk tend to work from ROM chips (read only memory) which by default cannot be written to, and while some ROM's are the type that can be written over, it is highly unlikely that it occured.I can see it being a far outside chance that a game made illegally ( and yes they pirate cartidegs for hand helds too heh) for the gameboy could overwrite the ROM chip (flash it) but I would bet my eternal soul that it has not happened.

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April 25, 2005 - 3:44pm — HeidiL

"not possible"

"It's not possible for a Game Boy system to get any kind of a virus or anything like that."

That's from the e-mail I just got from Nintendo, in response to my question about GB/GBA and viruses.

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April 29, 2005 - 1:34am — Redcardlibrarian

It depends

Has the Game Boy been in contact with other Game Boys that are sick? Has it recently travelled out of the country? Did it get left in the rain and develop a chill?

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May 18, 2005 - 6:58pm — mdoneil

I have a virus...

on my toaster I think. Every time I put perfectly fine bread in it I get burnt up coals out. It worked before.


I couldn't find any fix on the interweb so I am just calling it Cajun Toast.


I really worked with a guy who insisted the printer had a virus because it started printing on the wrong side of the paper. (I have no idea what he meant... he quit soon thereafter to be a regular on Cops I think.)

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