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)
melonDS
DS emulator, sorta (by melonDS-emu)
| IronBoy | melonDS | |
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| 13 | 42 | |
| 409 | 2,873 | |
| - | 6.9% | |
| 6.3 | 9.2 | |
| 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| Rust | C++ | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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?
melonDS
Posts with mentions or reviews of melonDS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-02.
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Mobile game recommendation
Nintendo DS Emulator (Pokemon, Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger etc.)
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We got DQIX (Sentinels of the starry skies) MULTIPLAYER on LAN (Without Parsec)
We used this version of MelonDS, which has experimental LAN capabilities and IT WORKS!
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help with bw roms
Use MelonDS instead, it's the most recommended DS emulator.
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Pokémon emulators
You mean emulators running on PC? It took some doing, but I finally got DS Download Play to work on MelonDS. First you need to get DS firmware files. I found one on Retrostic that did not work for me. Melon told me it was an old hacked dump, and trying to boot it just got me a white screen. I found another on the Internet Archive that works.
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I feel like people put down MelonDS too much here
MelonDS is actually doing a lot of really cool stuff. I can't speak too much on the Android build, but on PC they have actually gotten multiplayer too work flawlessly and they are currently working on implementing netplay. You can keep up with their progress here
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Hi, new to emulators. I had a question, can I run gba and nds games on this?
no, you can use mGBA for GBA games, and MelonDS for NDS games
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How do I turn source code to a release?
If you are on Windows you will need to install MSYS2 and this will make the process easier (which is why that's how they build it like that). Once installed open it and do: - pacman -S git (update git in MSYS2 with pacman) and then build the standalone execultable - git clone https://github.com/melonDS-emu/melonDS (clone inside the MSYS2 environment) - cd melonDS go into the folder and copy paste the last commands in the Static Builds section a few lines bellow
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Best online place to buy used games?
DeSmuME or melonDS for PC. Those are the two best ones out there. Mobile devices have nothing good at the moment, though.
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Problem with Cmake when building melonDS from Github (Could NOT find X11 (missing: X11_X11_INCLUDE_PATH) )
- I followed the step of the melonDS Github under "Linux" for archlinux : https://github.com/melonDS-emu/melonDS
- melonDS with built-in improvements added specifically for 358/2 Days (minimap, gauge progress in pause screen, widescreen hack, analog controlling the camera)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing IronBoy and melonDS you can also consider the following projects:
pandocs - The single, most comprehensive Game Boy technical reference.
desmume - DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
Dn-FamiTracker - modifications and improvements for 0CC-FamiTracker (based on j0CC-FamiTracker 0.6.3)
citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator
chip8-book - An introduction to Chip-8 emulation using Rust
melonDS-android - Android port of melonDS
rosettaboy - A gameboy emulator in several different languages
DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier
SameBoy - Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C
AM64DS_DeSmuME - Modded DeSmuME emulator with Analog Hack for SM64DS
asitop - Perf monitoring CLI tool for Apple Silicon
dolphin - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.