SameBoy
Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C (by LIJI32)
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)
| SameBoy | IronBoy | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 13 | |
| 1,732 | 412 | |
| 2.8% | - | |
| 9.4 | 6.3 | |
| 7 days ago | 10 months ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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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.
SameBoy
Posts with mentions or reviews of SameBoy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.
- Experiences with Joey Jr
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Documentation for cycle accurate Game Boy CPU
You could also consult the SameBoy source code which is a very accurate emulator.
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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/
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GameRoy: a cross platform and highly accurate Game Boy emulator
So, what I have finally tried was figure out the timing from another emulator, in this case SameBoy, which appears to be the most accurate game boy emulator. In the end, I copy the timing from its ppu state maching, and its interrupt handling code. Took a lot of time figuring out how it was working.
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?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SameBoy and IronBoy you can also consider the following projects:
glutin - A low-level library for OpenGL context creation
rosettaboy - A gameboy emulator in several different languages
exotracker-cpp
pandocs - The single, most comprehensive Game Boy technical reference.
sprite-render-rs - A Rust Crate for Sprite Rendering (WIP)
chip8-book - An introduction to Chip-8 emulation using Rust
gameroy - A Game Boy emulator, disassembler and debugger, written in Rust
Dn-FamiTracker - modifications and improvements for 0CC-FamiTracker (based on j0CC-FamiTracker 0.6.3)
DMG-CPU-Inside - Reverse-engineered schematics for DMG-CPU-B
asitop - Perf monitoring CLI tool for Apple Silicon
raw-gl-context - cross-platform OpenGL context creation