GB-8 vs GBSoundSystem

GB-8

A simple Chip-8 interpreter for the Nintendo Gameboy Color. (by Hacktix)

GBSoundSystem

A system-wide refactor (modernization) of the GameBoy Tracker (aka the Paragon 5) replayer created by Stephane Hockenhull. (by BlitterObjectBob)

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GB-8		GBSoundSystem
	Project
4	Mentions	1
51	Stars	19
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.1
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

GB-8

Posts with mentions or reviews of GB-8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.

Is the original DMG-1 Gameboy capable of emulation?
4 projects | /r/gbdev | 17 Jul 2022

CHIP-8 for Game Boy by Hacktix (updated 2021-09-19)
GB-8 -- CHIP-8 interpreter for Game Boy Color by Hacktix
1 project | /r/EmuDev | 4 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/retrogamedev | 4 Sep 2021
I made a CHIP-8 emulator that runs on the Nintendo Gameboy
2 projects | /r/EmuDev | 17 Jan 2021

Source code and releases are available right here.

GBSoundSystem

Posts with mentions or reviews of GBSoundSystem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-18.

Dead C Scroll by BlitterObjectBob — assembly tutorial for Game Boy showing how the scroll registers can be exploited to create some nice and interesting effects
2 projects | /r/retrogamedev | 18 Apr 2021

Check out as well by BlitterObjectBob — GBSoundSystem, system-wide refactor (modernization) of the GameBoy Tracker (aka the Paragon 5) replayer created by Stephane Hockenhull

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GB-8 and GBSoundSystem you can also consider the following projects:

gb8 - Chip-8 Emulator for GameBoy

GB-Studio-Community-Assets - A repository of user-submitted original assets usable in GB Studio, with no attribution required.

hUGEDriver - An easy-to-use, fast, tracker-based, public domain sound driver for Game Boy homebrew

MagenBoot - A custom copyright free Gameboy (DMG) bootrom

chip8-emulator-for-gameboy - A chip8 emulator made in gameboy assembly for the gameboy

pokered - Disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue

rgbds - Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

smilehax-IIe - Primary 3DS userland sploit for Smilebasic 3.6.0 EUR/USA (latest version). 3.3.2 JPN support via app downgrade from > 3.3.2. Works on 11.17.0-50.

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Octo - A Chip8 IDE