Document the Super Game Boy.

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Importing and playing Super Game Boy games
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The Super Game Boy was a special cartridge
released for the Super Famicom
(and all its regional variants around the world)
that allowed Game Boy games to be played
via the Super Famicom's controllers and video output.
The Super Game Boy 2 was released in Japan,
and had some minor extra features
beyond the original Super Game Boy,
but importing and playing games
works the same way in higan.
The Super Game Boy cartrige includes
the complete hardware of an original
(black-and-white)
Game Boy,
so it needs a boot ROM:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Cartridge</th>
<th>Filename</th>
<th>Size (bytes)</th>
<th>SHA256</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th scope="row">SGB</th>
<td><code>sgb.boot.rom</code></td>
<td>256</td>
<td><code>0e4ddff32fc9d1eeaae812a157dd246459b00c9e14f2f61751f661f32361e360</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row>SGB2</th>
<td><code>sgb.boot.rom</code></td>
<td>256</td>
<td><code>fd243c4fb27008986316ce3df29e9cfbcdc0cd52704970555a8bb76edbec3988</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Yes,
the SGB and SGB2 have different firmware,
but higan expects the same filename for both.
To import the SGB base cartridge,
you must copy the required firmware file
into the same directory.
Then you may import it just like
[a regular game](#importing-and-playing-regular-games).
To play a Game Boy game in Super Game Boy mode,
load the Super Game Boy cartridge like any other game.
higan will open another
[filesystem browser](#the-filesystem-browser)
to let you pick which previously-imported Game Boy game
you want to insert into the Super Game Boy.
If you press "Cancel" at this point,
higan will crash, so don't do that.
Note that only games for the original, black-and-white Game Boy
can be used with the Super Game Boy.
Some games designed for the Game Boy Color
were backward compatible with the original Game Boy
and hence the Super Game Boy;
see [Playing Game Boy Colour games in Game Boy mode][blackcarts]
for details.
[blackcarts]: #playing-game-boy-color-games-in-game-boy-mode
Importing and playing MSU-1 games
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