On: Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges

[fredoralive]

Tetris just has a ROM chip. The other official carts have ROM, a bank switching chip, static RAM and a power switching chip (to switch the SRAM from the internal battery to Gameboy power). So there's just more stuff on the board that can drain power.

Edit: Dang, you remembered whilst I writing my reply...

[ChrisRR → fredoralive]

Yeah, incidentally I've written a gameboy emulator and only remembered because I never implemented any MBCs and so it only played Tetris and Bubble Ghost