IronBoy
A Gameboy emulator written in Rust as both a learning exercise and a love letter to the console that got me into gaming. (by Chiplis)
jsmoo
Multi-system, pure JavaScript (& a little AssemblyScript) emulator, with great accuracy and speed. Currently some SNES, NES, GameBoy, Master System, ZX Spectrum, and GameGear support (by raddad772)
| IronBoy | jsmoo | |
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| 13 | 31 | |
| 409 | 70 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.3 | 7.1 | |
| 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Rust | JavaScript | |
| - | MIT License |
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IronBoy
Posts with mentions or reviews of IronBoy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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IronBoy: High accuracy GameBoy emulator written in Rust and available in the browser via WASM
Hey, since bro was kind enough to provide the source repo, you should probably post problems / feature requests to https://github.com/nicolas-siplis/IronBoy/issues instead of here.
- feboy (DMG GB emulator) now has full audio support! Special thanks to /u/KingWallmo for working on it the last couple months. Suggestions on what feature to add next?
- Open source project to get involved in as an audio developer
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Gameboy Doctor: debug and fix your gameboy emulator
Hey there! I've been working on a Game Boy emulator since last year and found the GameRoy project, which translated the PPU's logic from SameBoy, the (AFAIK) most accurate GB emulator around. I basically copied the PPU logic into my emulator and replaced the "state" property (an integer) with enums for some extra clarity.
https://github.com/nicolas-siplis/feboy
https://github.com/rodrigodd/gameroy
https://github.com/LIJI32/SameBoy/
- How to prevent performance drops affecting my Game Boy emulator when running on M1/M2 Macs?
- After lots of lost sleep I finally got my Game Boy emulator into a presentable state, contributions and feature requests are more than welcome!
- Currently developing a GameBoy emulator and would love to be able to run at 60 FPS in debug mode, is it feasible?
- Gameboy (DMG) Emulator not rendering Alleyway correctly
- ¿Les interesaría aprender a programar, emulando un Game Boy?
jsmoo
Posts with mentions or reviews of jsmoo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Best compiler to write .nes cartridge ROMs for testing my own emulator?
If you really want to use it, I have a bad 65816 assembler at https://github.com/raddad772/jsmoo/blob/main/component/cpu/wdc65816/wdc65816_assembler.js . Just don’t switch it to 65816 mode and it should produce compatible code. I wrote it as a pile of hacks on top of each other and you still need to add an iNES header.
- Starting Game Boy emulator, need a little insight
- Snes, Nes, GameBoy and A26 emulator.
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Trouble with GB Joypad Input
If you want to really verify your CPU, check out https://github.com/raddad772/jsmoo/tree/b3807b55f03cdad2191810b2a770781d73c41870/misc/tests/GeneratedTests/sm83 , a set of 1000 tests per opcode, cycle by cycle, including read and write bus activity, in JSON format. It’s a bit of work to integrate them but there’s no better CPU test. Also you can generate more if you want to by using the code generation portion of the codebase. The only thing it doesn’t really test well is IRQ/halt stuff. It’s pretty common for folks to pass Blargg and still have things uncovered here. Usually things Blargg can’t test, or symmetric errors (flag both set and tested wrong), or corner cases Blargg didn’t think of.
- Help with some roadblocks on my Gameboy emulator.
- Dialogue glitches in The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening
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ZexDoc Hanging
https://github.com/raddad772/jsmoo/tree/main/misc/tests/GeneratedTests/z80 will troubleshoot any issues you have with instructions.
- Why is everybody implementing GameBoy's opcode CD differently?
- Cycle boundary in cycle-exact emulators
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CHIP8 in Vanilla Javascript
Where? If you want to check out other vanilla JavaScript emulators, https://github.com/raddad772/jsmoo
What are some alternatives?
When comparing IronBoy and jsmoo you can also consider the following projects:
pandocs - The single, most comprehensive Game Boy technical reference.
WinUAE - WinUAE Amiga emulator
Dn-FamiTracker - modifications and improvements for 0CC-FamiTracker (based on j0CC-FamiTracker 0.6.3)
kernal64 - A Scala Commodore 64, 128, VIC20, CBM2 and SuperCPU emulator
chip8-book - An introduction to Chip-8 emulation using Rust
ProcessorTests - A language-agnostic JSON-encoded instruction-by-instruction test suite for the 8088, 68000, 65816, 65[c]02 and SPC700 that includes bus activity.
rosettaboy - A gameboy emulator in several different languages
CHIP8-Interpreter-Vanilla-Javascript
SameBoy - Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C
chippy - Chip8 emulator written in python using pygame
asitop - Perf monitoring CLI tool for Apple Silicon
melonDS - DS emulator, sorta