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Top 23 game-boy Open-Source Projects
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rgbds
Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color
I'm currently learning assembly programming for the original Nintendo Game Boy handheld. There is an actively maintained cross-platform toolchain[0] (a few actually, but I believe I'm using the most common one), and the instruction set is very simple (it's a subset of the Z80) so it's not overwhelming.
The tooling is actually outstanding – from within VS Code I'm able to build my ROM, launch it in an emulator, and even remotely debug it using VS Code's debugger.
I started by following along with a tutorial[1] where you follow along and build a couple games, then moved on to working on my own little project. It has been extremely fun and rewarding so far.
[0]https://rgbds.gbdev.io
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Gearboy
Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator and debugger for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.
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Project mention: Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-20
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tilemap-studio
A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, DS, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.
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Project mention: Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-20
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gb-save-states
💾 Patches to add save state support to Game Boy games when playing on the original hardware
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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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windfish
A tracing disassembler & UI for Gameboy ROMs — integrated with Sameboy for emulation & debugging.
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Petris
A puzzle game for the Game Boy Color (CGB), Analogue Pocket (AP) and Game Gear(GG). Build pets in all shapes and sizes, keep the board clear.
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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).
game-boy discussion
game-boy related posts
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Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web
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Documentation for cycle accurate Game Boy CPU
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Game Boy Competition 2023
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WebRcade (or similar) on Android TV / Google TV
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How do I get lemuroid games to look like 2nd image?
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Need help with CPU swap of Game Boy Pocket
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Released CUT2 - An improved fast upscale shader for 2D and 3D games
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Index
What are some of the best open-source game-boy projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | mgba | 6,013 |
| 2 | Lemuroid | 2,956 |
| 3 | rgbds | 1,414 |
| 4 | Gearboy | 940 |
| 5 | mooneye-gb | 921 |
| 6 | ZGB | 732 |
| 7 | pandocs | 663 |
| 8 | tilemap-studio | 403 |
| 9 | gb-ctr | 362 |
| 10 | jitboy | 306 |
| 11 | NoobBoy | 289 |
| 12 | mgbdis | 262 |
| 13 | Hades | 208 |
| 14 | gb-save-states | 161 |
| 15 | lsdpack | 119 |
| 16 | tobutobugirl-dx | 81 |
| 17 | windfish | 76 |
| 18 | mealybug-tearoom-tests | 61 |
| 19 | lazyboy | 49 |
| 20 | Azayaka | 39 |
| 21 | Petris | 33 |
| 22 | mizu | 32 |
| 23 | sprite | 6 |
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