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Top 23 C Gameboy Projects
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Provenance
iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |
Project mention: Provenance Emulator: Atari, Commodore, Game Boy and More | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-14 -
gbdk-2020
An updated version of GBDK, C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear.
Project mention: RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-11This is a much smaller device then anyone has ever exported Godot to.
More practical would be to port https://github.com/gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020 so that https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio could support it.
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Kargo
Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.
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Project mention: RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-11
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NeoGB-Printer
An open-source and standalone Gameboy Printer emulator 100% compatible with all officially released games (110 in total) that support the accessory. Just print and save the images as BMP
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tobutobugirl-dx
An arcade platformer homebrew game for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy
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Project mention: Asmotor: Powerful macro (cross) assembler package for several CPUs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-04
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Gameboy discussion
C Gameboy related posts
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RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch
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I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
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Asmotor: Powerful macro (cross) assembler package for several CPUs
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Droneboy: Drone Music Application for Gameboy
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The Secret to Fast Typing on the Game Boy: Here’s How I Did It!
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Show HN: Running Game Boy ROMs on the STM32 ARM Cortex Microcontroller
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Experiences with Joey Jr
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Gameboy projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | mgba | 7,374 |
| 2 | Provenance | 6,370 |
| 3 | gbdk-2020 | 2,296 |
| 4 | SameBoy | 2,189 |
| 5 | retro-go | 1,336 |
| 6 | SkyEmu | 1,254 |
| 7 | binjgb | 606 |
| 8 | Peanut-GB | 524 |
| 9 | RISCBoy | 506 |
| 10 | gba-remote-play | 468 |
| 11 | jitboy | 320 |
| 12 | ENGAGE | 284 |
| 13 | Hades | 254 |
| 14 | gamekid | 239 |
| 15 | giibiiadvance | 214 |
| 16 | NeoGB-Printer | 165 |
| 17 | piugba | 129 |
| 18 | apultra | 120 |
| 19 | Droneboy | 101 |
| 20 | tobutobugirl-dx | 96 |
| 21 | asmotor | 90 |
| 22 | gb-wordyl | 69 |
| 23 | PicoAdapterGB | 58 |
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