jitboy
A Game Boy emulator with dynamic recompilation (JIT) (by sysprog21)
Gearboy
Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator and debugger for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch. (by drhelius)
| jitboy | Gearboy | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 5 | |
| 306 | 940 | |
| 2.3% | 3.2% | |
| 3.3 | 8.7 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
jitboy
Posts with mentions or reviews of jitboy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-21.
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jitboy: A Game Boy emulator with dynamic recompilation (JIT) for x86-64
Linked under references: https://github.com/sysprog21/jitboy#reference
Gearboy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gearboy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-10.
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List of best emulators for each console! (2023)
Gearboy is not in that shootout.
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I finally wrote my first ever emulator (GameBoy)
There were multiple times where I got stuck with the CPU timings and the PPU. So I modified the Gearboy to print some extra info, like registers and timers, so I could compare with mine and figure out where it failed.
- Gearboy, a cross-platform Gameboy emulator (iOS too)
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[PS3 RetroArch Community Edition] I cant get the Game Gear Cores working
Gearboy is a Game Boy emulator. Gearsystem should work, though. Picodrive works, too, I think.
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So in 2022, what reasons, if any (even minor ones), are there to use VBA-M over mGBA?
I prefer Gearboy to Sameboy. It emulates the display flicker of a real Gameboy. Gave me a nostalgia kick.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing jitboy and Gearboy you can also consider the following projects:
binjgb - Gameboy emulator implemented in C, that also runs in the browser
snoopy - Snoopy Command Logger is a small library that logs all program executions on your Linux/BSD system.
mealybug-tearoom-tests - 🪲☕️ Game Boy emulator test ROMs
SkyEmu - Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator
gb-test-roms - Collection of Game Boy test roms.
mgba - mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator