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Top 23 Gameboy Open-Source Projects

  1. 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 |

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  3. mgba

    mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

  4. gameboy.live

    🕹️ A basic gameboy emulator with terminal "Cloud Gaming" support

  5. PyBoy

    Game Boy emulator written in Python

    Project mention: Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy (DMG-01) (2016) [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-01
  6. pokered

    Disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue

    Project mention: Disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-10
  7. awesome-gbdev

    A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.

  8. GoBoy

    Multi-platform Nintendo Game Boy Color emulator written in Go

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. EmulatorJS

    A web-based frontend for RetroArch

    Project mention: App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-31

    This reasoning is why I'm keen to try out RomM[0], a ROM library manager that has EmulatorJS[1] built in. Rather than having to setup emulation on each device where I want to play a simple game, I can instead use this combination to do it from any web browser on my local network.

    [0] https://github.com/rommapp/romm

    [1] https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

  11. 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: The Secret to Fast Typing on the Game Boy: Here’s How I Did It! | dev.to | 2024-10-24

    With this concept in mind, I set out to develop the foundation of my Game Boy OS. I decided to use C as my primary programming language, leveraging the Game Boy Development Kit (GBDK 2020) to tap into the console’s hardware capabilities. However, I knew that for certain performance-critical tasks, I would need to incorporate Assembly (ASM) to optimize speed.

  12. SameBoy

    Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C

  13. Mesen2

    Multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, GB, GBA, PCE, SMS/GG, WS) for Windows, Linux and macOS

  14. wasmboy

    Game Boy / Game Boy Color Emulator Library, 🎮written for WebAssembly using AssemblyScript. 🚀Demos built with Preact and Svelte. ⚛️

  15. rgbds

    Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

    Project mention: Bogus Software | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-02

    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

  16. gameboy

    Full featured Cross-platform GameBoy emulator by Rust. Forever boys!. (by mohanson)

  17. pokegb

    A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokemon Blue, in ~50 lines of c++.

  18. metroboy

    A repository of gate-level simulators and tools for the original Game Boy.

  19. coffee-gb

    Gameboy emulator in Java 8.

  20. Gearboy

    Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator and debugger for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.

  21. mooneye-gb

    A Game Boy research project and emulator written in Rust

  22. SkyEmu

    Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator

  23. LADX-Disassembly

    Disassembly of Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX

    Project mention: The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-25

    https://github.com/zladx/LADX-Disassembly Could start with a fork of this

  24. pokeyellow

    Disassembly of Pokemon Yellow

  25. ZGB

    Game Boy / Color engine with lots of features

  26. SaaSHub

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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).

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  • Disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2025
  • Bogus Software

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2025
  • Show HN: Rugby – cycle-accurate Game Boy emulator

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2024
  • The Secret to Fast Typing on the Game Boy: Here’s How I Did It!

    2 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2024
  • Show HN: Running Game Boy ROMs on the STM32 ARM Cortex Microcontroller

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2024
  • Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy (DMG-01) (2016) [pdf]

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2024
  • The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Gameboy projects? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Provenance 6,042
2 mgba 5,890
3 gameboy.live 4,696
4 PyBoy 4,699
5 pokered 4,123
6 awesome-gbdev 4,088
7 GoBoy 2,608
8 EmulatorJS 1,870
9 gbdk-2020 1,805
10 SameBoy 1,743
11 Mesen2 1,447
12 wasmboy 1,400
13 rgbds 1,396
14 gameboy 1,386
15 pokegb 1,346
16 metroboy 1,129
17 coffee-gb 1,110
18 Gearboy 916
19 mooneye-gb 904
20 SkyEmu 871
21 LADX-Disassembly 845
22 pokeyellow 734
23 ZGB 726

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