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

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May 30th - Jun 5th, 2022

Documentation

Game Boy Architecture: A Practical Analysis - by Rodrigo Copetti.

May 9th - May 15th, 2022

Documentation

Opcodes

RGBDS opcodes reference - A reference of all instructions, including short descriptions, cycle and byte counts, and explanations of flag modifications.

Apr 25th - May 1st, 2022

Reverse Engineering

Game Disassemblies

Final Fantasy Adventure stars6

Mar 7th - Mar 13th, 2022

Homebrews

Homebrew Hub - A community-led attempt to collect, archive and preserve every unlicensed and homebrew game released for Game Boy. Entries are playable online.

Reverse Engineering

DMA hijacking - A simple technique that allows you to run custom code in most GB/SGB/CGB games, provided you have an ACE exploit.

Nov 15th - Nov 21st, 2021

Software Development

Music drivers and trackers

CBT-FX stars5 - A GBDK-2020 sound effect driver compatible with FX-Hammer sound effects.

Oct 25th - Oct 31st, 2021

Software Development

C

Game Boy home of Flavor - Some full games and sources.

Sep 13th - Sep 19th, 2021

Software Development

Music drivers and trackers

SoundSystem stars1 - A modernized audio driver for GameBoy Tracker (aka the Paragon 5 music player).

Software Development

Sources

DeadCScroll stars2 - A detailed tutorial on how to make the screen wobble, among other "raster effects"

Aug 30th - Sep 5th, 2021

Homebrews

C

Novascape

Burly Bear vs. The Mean Foxes (GBC port)

Jul 26th - Aug 1st, 2021

Homebrews

ASM

Death Planet

Quartet - Puzzle game for the Game Boy (Color) and Super Game Boy.

Dangan

Homebrews

C

Super Princess' 2092 Exodus stars22 - (ZGB engine stars510).

Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe stars51 - An arcade platformer for the Game Boy (Color).

Black Castle - Side scrolling platformer for the Game Boy (itch.io).

Genesis - Shmup for the Game Boy (itch.io).

Indestructo Tank!

Super JetPak DX

Powa! - Side scrolling platformer for the Game Boy (Color) (ZGB engine stars510).

Cavern - (ZGB engine stars510).

Mona and the Witch's Hat Deluxe - (ZGB engine stars510).

The Bouncing Ball

DMG Deals Damage

Homebrews

GB Studio

Soul Void - Interactive horror fiction.

Deadeus

SUPER IMPOSTOR BROS.

Jul 19th - Jul 25th, 2021

Software Development

ASM

OAM DMA tutorial - Example of how to use OAM DMA in assembly.

Software Development

Boilerplates and libraries

gb-template stars1 - A template with basic functions such as joypad input, DMA transfers, and map/tile data loading.

Homebrews

ASM

PlantBoy stars0

Jun 14th - Jun 20th, 2021

Related projects

GB Studio - Drag and drop game creator with simple, no knowledge required, visual scripting.

Software Development

Compilers

GBDK stars982 - Maintained and modernized GBDK (Game Boy Development Kit) powered by an updated version of the SDCC toolchain. Provides a C compiler, assembler, linker and a set of libraries.

Reverse Engineering

Game Disassemblies

Tetris stars7 - Complete Tetris disassembly.

Apr 19th - Apr 25th, 2021

Software Development

Compilers

Turbo Rascal Syntax Error - Complete suite (IDE, compiler, programming language, resource editor) intended for developing games/demos for 8 / 16-bit line of computers, including the Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

Apr 12th - Apr 18th, 2021

Software Development

ASM

Assembly tutorial by David Pello - Good document to learn to produce working asm code for gb. Brief explanations of many important topics. Many examples with commented source code.

Software Development

C

8-Bit Wonderland - Well-written introductory document about how the Game Boy works and how to start developing working code for it.

Homebrews

C

Infinity stars8 - RPG developed by Affinix Software primarily between the years 1999 and 2001. The game never found a publisher and was eventually canceled. Got recently released with the full source, development tools and workflows.

Mar 15th - Mar 21st, 2021

Game Boy Camera

Retrieving images

Arduino Gameboy Printer Emulator stars238 - Emulate a gameboy printer via the gameboy link cable.

ESP8266 Game Boy Printer stars37 - A device that emulates the Gameboy Printer and lets you retrieve images using WiFi powered by an ESP8266.

WiFi GBP Emulator stars33 - A GameBoy printer emulator which provides the received data over a WiFi connection.

Game Boy WiFi Printer - D1 Mini Shield stars13 - Game Boy Printer interface shield for D1 mini/mini Pro ESP8266 boards.

Game Boy Printer Sniffer stars6 - Sniff packet communications between a Game Boy and the Printer.

Game Boy Camera

Changing the camera's behavior

Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount

Game Boy Camera to Canon Lens mount - based on the above.

game-boy-camera-frame-replacer stars10 - Manipulate the ROM of a camera to include custom frames

Game Boy Camera

Post processing

Game Boy Printer Paper Simulation stars38 - Generate as-if-printed images of digital printed images.

Game Boy Printer Web stars31 - Gallery app for to the Game Boy camera: import pictures from exports or cartridge dumps and choose color palettes.

Software Development

Assemblers

RGBDS stars968 - Assembler and linker package. Documentation.

Software Development

Experimental/Proof of Concepts

RGBDS-Live - In-browser coding environment to try out RGBDS.

Software Development

Graphics utilities

Superfamiconv stars86 - Flexible and composable tile graphics converter supporting Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Mega Drive and PC Engine formats.

Community

Chat channels

Feb 1st - Feb 7th, 2021

Emulator Development

DMG-01 - An educational Gameboy Emulator in Rust and a companion book explaining its development. *Oh Boy! Creating a Game Boy Emulator in Rust- is a talk given at Rust Fest 18 about this.

Homebrews

Demos

GBVideoPlayer2 stars63 - The second iteration of the above demo, which increases the resolution, adds stereo- PCM audio, and introduces video compression.

Dec 28th - Jan 3rd, 2020

Software Development

Music drivers and trackers

hUGETracker stars157 - A music tracker based on OpenMPT, focused on ease of use, compact output, and embeddability in homebrew games.

Software Development

Boilerplates and libraries

gb-vwf stars25 - Library to print variable-width text, comes with a demo.

Dec 21st - Dec 27th, 2020

Software Development

Boilerplates and libraries

gb-boilerplate stars42 - A template for starting Game Boy projects, providing a Makefile for infrastructure.

gb-starter-kit stars28 - An expansion on the above, including base library code as well to get started faster.

Software Development

Emulators

Emulicious - Provides accurate emulation and includes powerful tools such as a profiler and source-level debugging for ASM and C via a VS Code debug adapter.

Software Development

Engines

Retr0 GB - An engine for creating games (expands GBDK).

Software Development

Development tools

GBExtended - C library extending gbdk.

gbdk-lib-extension stars11 - A small set of sources and tools for the Game Boy Development Kit by Michael Hope.

Dot Matrix Game Editor - An IDE for Game Boy programming in a C-like language called GBL, with many other features like tile and map extraction, WLA-DX assembly, and more.

mgbdis stars168 - Game Boy ROM disassembler with RGBDS compatible output.

ROM Header Utility - An online tool to inspect and modify a ROM's header data, including the logo.

romusage stars18 - Command line tool for estimating usage (free space) of Game Boy ROMs from a .map, .noi or ihx file. Works with GBDK-2020 and RGBDS.

awake stars54 - Game Boy decompiler.

Game Boy Text Tools stars8 - Set of tools for text manipulation and translation of Game Boy ROMs written in Node.js.

Software Development

Graphics utilities

Harry Mulder's GB Development - Some sources and home of Game Boy Tile Designer (GBTD) and Game Boy Map Builder (GBMB) tools.

Tilemap Studio stars207 - A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.

Software Development

Hardware and ROM utilities

cart-dumper stars23 - Game Boy Cartridge Dumper ROM.

gbcamextract stars40 - Extracts photos from Game Boy Camera saves.

Game Boy LCD sniffing stars138 - Sniff your Game Boy's LCD using a logic analyzer.

swapdump stars1 - Diagnostic utility for Game Boy flashcarts.

Gameboy-LinkUp stars6 - Game Boy LinkUp serial cable networking project.

Homebrews

C

Petris stars20 - A puzzle game of shapely pets for the Game Boy Color (itch.io).

Dec 14th - Dec 20th, 2020

Emulator Development

Testing

dmg-acid2 stars86 and cgb-acid2 stars56 - Basic PPU rendering tests.

Dec 7th - Dec 13th, 2020

Software Development

Syntax highlighting packages

sublime-rgbds - A Sublime Text 3 package for RGBDS, including syntax highlighting and some completion snippets.

Nov 23rd - Nov 29th, 2020

Software Development

Experimental/Proof of Concepts

gbdk-go stars19 - A compiler translates Go programs to C code. The output C code is built into GB ROM by GBDK.

Oct 26th - Nov 1st, 2020

Software Development

Assemblers

ASMotor stars40 - Assembler engine and development system targeting Game Boy, among other CPUs. Written by the original RGBDS author. Documentation.

Oct 19th - Oct 25th, 2020

Documentation

Pan Docs - The single, most comprehensive technical reference to Game Boy available to the public. Corrected, updated and maintained by the community.

Software Development

ASM

GameBoy programming tutorial: Hello World! - Step by step tutorial.

Sep 7th - Sep 13th, 2020

Software Development

Music drivers and trackers

DevSound stars47 - Sound driver embeddable in homebrews which supports pulse width manipulation, arpeggios, and multiple waveforms.

Carillon Player - Music Engine.

GBT PLAYER stars227 - A music player library and converter kit.

mmlgb stars32 - A MML parser and GBDK sound driver for the Nintendo Game Boy.

XPMCK stars21 - An MML based music compiler with support for Game Boy & Game Boy Color.

Emulator Development

Testing

MBC3 RTC test ROM stars20

Aug 3rd - Aug 9th, 2020

Software Development

ASM

gb asm tutorial - Step by step tutorial, building several ROMs to accompany its explanations.

Jun 22nd - Jun 28th, 2020

Documentation

Game Boy Project Report - Report of an hardware emulator stars2 (on a Terasic DE1-SoC Board) developed as final project for the CSEE4840 Embedded Systems Design course at Columbia University.

Jun 15th - Jun 21st, 2020

Documentation

Cartridges

MBC1 and MBC2 cartridges circuits - and explanation on how these MBC bank switch and control RAM.

Emulator Development

Reverse Engineering fine details of Game Boy hardware - 43 minutes talk by Gekkio given at Disobey 2018 (errata).

binjgb debugging hangs - Investigations on emulations quirks.

Software Development

Syntax highlighting packages

rgbds-vscode stars47 - Visual Studio Code language extension for RGBDS GBZ80 Assembly.

Software Development

C

GBDK Programming Video Tutorials - A series of video tutorials introducing beginners to programming with GBDK.

Homebrews

ASM

kupman stars4 and some other projects.

Homebrews

C

GB raycaster, Vision-8 - and some other projects.

Dino's Offline Adventure stars55 - A clone of the Google Chrome offline game.

dino-gb stars16 - Another clone of the Chrome game.

Related projects

Websites

pdroms.de - Game Boy releases.

May 4th - May 10th, 2020

Introduction

The Game Boy, a hardware autopsy

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk

Documentation

Complete Technical Reference - by Gekkio.

Documentation

Peripherals

Edge of Emulation, a series of articles about emulating and investigating Game Boy accessories. Also available as technical documents in the GBE- emulator documentation.

Mobile Adapter GB - Internet connectivity and DLC on the Game Boy Color.
The Game Boy Printer
Pocket Sonar - A blue cart with built-in sonar hardware.
Zok Zok Heroes - Zok Zok Heroes' Full Changer, a motion-activated accessory.
Infrared Madness - Infrared communication on the Game Boy Color.
Game Boy 4-Player Adapter - DMG-07.
Barcode Boy - The first Game Boy card-scanner.
Barcode Taisen Bardigun - A late 90s DMG-GBC barcode reader.

Emulator Development

binjgb rewind - Implementing a *rewind- feature.

About swotGB - Notes about the development of a Game Boy emulator in JavaScript.

Software Development

Assemblers

wla-dx stars465 - Yet Another GB-Z80/Z80/... Multi Platform Cross Assembler Package. Documentation.

Software Development

Emulators

Binjgb stars363 - 5Kloc emulator that passes most of the tests. *Rewind- feature. Runs in the browser using WebAssembly.

gbe-plus stars359 - A recently rewritten emulator that has a large effort in preserving the functions of obscure accessories (such as IR link, Mobile Network GB, Barcode Boy, GB Printer, local and online GB Serial Link Cable, ... )

Software Development

Syntax highlighting packages

gbz80-highlight stars5 - Notepad+- and gedit syntax highlighting files for RGBDS assembly.

Homebrews

C

Bubble Factory stars23 - *Vanilla- SDCC (no gbdk).

Mar 16th - Mar 22nd, 2020

Software Development

Emulators

BGB - Powerful emulator and debugger. Provides an accurate hardware emulation.

Community

Forum

Documentation

Misc

Introduction to Game Boy Hacking - Workshop introducing basic assembly, debugging and reverse engineering.

GBSOUND.txt - A document detailing the Game Boy sound engine.

gbdev FAQs - Must read by Jeff Frohwein.

Game Boy Bootrom - Commented dump of the DMG bootrom.

Differences between the Z80 and the gameboy's processor

Gameboy 2BPP Graphics Format - Information on how the Game Boy interprets VRAM tile data to color pixels.

Emulator Development

Emulation of Nintendo Game Boy - Overview of the Game Boy hardware with the perspective of building an emulator.

Related projects

Websites

devrs.com/gb - Old home of the scene: examples, sources, complete documentation, guides, tutorials and various tools.

Feb 10th - Feb 16th, 2020

Software Development

ASM

Game Boy Assembly Programming for the Modern Game Developer stars97 - An e-book about making Game Boy games in Assembly.

Software Development

Boilerplates and libraries

GingerBread stars104 - A software library for making your own Game Boy games. It is made to be used alongside the book Game Boy Assembly Programming for the Modern Game Developer stars97 which also doubles as documentation.

Feb 3rd - Feb 9th, 2020

Software Development

Emulators

MetroBoy stars968 - A playable, circuit-level simulation of an entire Game Boy.

Related projects

Programming Game Boy Chinese cartridges with an STM32F4

Dumping the Super Game Boy Boot ROM

Documentation

Cartridges

Pinout, registers descriptions and VHDL code of some cartridge types on Tauwasser's wiki:

Dec 30th - Jan 5th, 2020

Documentation

Custom cartridges

Gameboy-MBC5-MBC1-Hybrid stars31 - CPLD implementation of a MBC5/MBC1 Hybrid cartridge.

Related projects

GBCartRead stars44 - Read ROM, Read RAM or Write RAM from/to a GameBoy Cartridge.

GBxCart-RW stars65 - A device for reading game ROMs, save games and restoring saves for GB, GBC and GBA carts from your PC via USB.

Oct 7th - Oct 13th, 2019

Related projects

GBCamcorder stars74 - Lo-Fi portable video recorder using a GameBoy Camera cartridge.

Work Master OS - Russian multi tasking operating system.

Emulator Development

0dmg - Learning Rust by building a partial Game Boy emulator.

Documentation

Hardware

DMG-CPU-Inside stars270 - Schematics and annotated overlay for the DMG-CPU-B chip, extracted from die photos.

Sep 9th - Sep 15th, 2019

Software Development

Graphics utilities

Tilemap GB stars41 - GIMP image editor plug-in for importing & exporting GBMB and GBTD tilemaps and tilesets (as bitmap images or .GBM/.GBR files).

Tilemap Helper stars20 - GIMP image editor plug-in for optimizing tile maps and tile sets.

May 27th - Jun 2nd, 2019

Documentation

Opcodes

gb-opcodes - Opcodes table

Apr 22nd - Apr 28th, 2019

Homebrews

C

Evoland.gb stars30 - A port of the first level of Evoland.

Apr 15th - Apr 21st, 2019

Documentation

Custom cartridges

Reiner Ziegler's Game Boy page - Commercial and homemade programmable cartridges and programming systems. Tutorials, wiring and schematics provided.

Nekocart stars73 - Open-source flash cartridge using an Xilinx CPLD as MBC5 (Post).

Emulator Development

Testing

Mealybug Tearoom Tests stars37

Software Development

Experimental/Proof of Concepts

gbasm-rs - An opinionated Rust based compiler for Game Boy z80 assembly code.

Homebrews

ASM

vectroid.gb - Developed with gbasm.

Mar 18th - Mar 24th, 2019

Related projects

VerilogBoy stars364 - Game Boy compatible console Verilog RTL implementation.

GBCartFlasher firmware stars21

Game Boy Link Cable Breakout Board stars55

Mar 4th - Mar 10th, 2019

Documentation

Game Boy Color

Bootstrap ROM

Colorization palettes in the BIOS

ROM Disassembly

Documentation

Peripherals

Game Boy Camera RE stars62 - Documentation about GB Camera and tools used to reverse engineer it by using Arduino.

Arduino Game Boy Printer Emulator stars238 - Emulating a Game Boy Printer via the Game Boy Link cable with an Arduino.

Documentation

Custom cartridges

Homebrew-Gameboy-Cartridge stars106 - Eagle library, schematic, and board files for a cartridge PCB using an Atmel AT49F040 as ROM.

Emulator Development

Decoding Gameboy Z80 opcodes - How to algorithmically decode Game Boy instructions (as opposed to writing one huge switch-case statement).

Jan 14th - Jan 20th, 2019

Homebrews

ASM

waveform-gb stars16 - Program visualizing the wave form used by the wave channel. The wave form can be edited freely and playback of the wave is updated immediately.

Dec 24th - Dec 30th, 2018

Software Development

Syntax highlighting packages

rgbds-mode stars3 - Emacs major mode for RGBDS assembly.

Dec 17th - Dec 23rd, 2018

Homebrews

Demos

GBVideoPlayer stars72 - A technical demo demonstrating how the Game Boy LCD controller can be hacked to make a Game Boy Color play a full motion video in color, together with music.

Homebrews

ASM

Libbet and the Magic Floor stars30

minesweepGB stars7

Documentation

Cartridges

GB Rom List - Navigable table of every game released with details on their cartridges.

Documentation

Custom cartridges

Homebrew Gameboy Color Cartridge stars58 - Board layout for an EEPROM powered cartridge.

Software Development

Graphics utilities

libstdgb stars10 - A C library of useful Game Boy operations (SDCC).

Software Development

ASM

DMGreport stars51 - Game programming tutorials in assembly.

Related projects

gbos stars18 - A basic operating system for the Game Boy.

Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering Kirby's Dreamland 2

pokemontools stars288 - a python module that provides various reverse engineering components for various Pokémon games.

Reverse Engineering a Gameboy ROM with radare2 - A walkthrough to reverse engineer a Game Boy ROM challenge using radare2.

Disassembling Link's Awakening - A series of blog posts about disassembling Link's Awakening DX.

Reverse Engineering the GameBoy Tetris stars20

Software Development

Sources

dev'rs ASM section - A lot of working demos and sources.

EmmaEwert's experiments stars15 - A collection of prototype programs, mostly just toying around. Among others, a daylight effect, transparency and a weather effect.

Software Development

Syntax highlighting packages

Atom language package for RGBASM - Atom syntax highlighting for RGBDS assembly.

Vim syntax file for the Game Boy assembler RGBASM - Vim syntax highlighting for RGBDS assembly.

Vim syntax file for RGBDS - Another Vim syntax highlighting file for RGBDS assembly.

Z80 Assembly support for Visual Studio Code stars23

Dec 10th - Dec 16th, 2018

Software Development

Graphics utilities

Game Boy Tile Data Generator stars79 - HTML5 / JS web application that will convert bitmap images to hexadecimal data appropriate for use in tile based graphical applications, specifically GB.

Nov 19th - Nov 25th, 2018

Software Development

Graphics utilities

tpp1 stars15 - Definition and specification of a custom GB/GBC memory/hardware mapper, as a functional superset of MBC.

Oct 22nd - Oct 28th, 2018

Documentation

Game Boy Color

Unused Palettes

Documentation

Peripherals

Dan Docs - Obscure Game Boy hardware documentation.

DMG-07 Technical Documentation

Oct 1st - Oct 7th, 2018

Software Development

Graphics utilities

vtGBte stars24 - A minimalistic ncurses tile editor.

Software Development

Experimental/Proof of Concepts

llvm-gbz80 stars34 / clang-gbz80 stars20 - Clang/LLVM port to the GBZ80 CPU (similar to the deprecated euclio/llvm-gbz80 stars8).

Emulator Development

binjgb on the web - Porting of the binjgb emulator to Web Assembly. (Part 2)

List of open source emulators

Software Development

Emulators

mGBA stars3.8k - Modern cross platform GBA emulator which also runs GB/GBC games.

Gambatte stars384 - Cross-platform and accurate emulator.

Sep 24th - Sep 30th, 2018

Homebrews

Demos

matrix-rain-gb stars21 - A Matrix digital rain effect in assembler.

Software Development

Emulators

Mooneye GB stars756 - Research project and emulator in Rust.

SameBoy stars1k - Accurate emulator with a wide range of powerful debugging features.

Emulator Development

Testing

144p Test Suite - Port of Artemio Urbina's 240p Test Suite to the Game Boy.

Documentation

Hardware

The Game Boy Project - Provides a study on the hardware and detailed constructional information for the implementation of three 8-bit bidirectional parallel ports.

ESP8266 GB Printer stars37 - A device that emulates the GB Printer and lets you retrieve images using WiFi.

ESP8266 GB Dev Board stars17 - Dev board for Game Boy accessories development, powered by ESP8266.

Related custom hardware stars203 - by Gekkio.

fruttenboel - Page with loads of information on the hardware, custom boards to interface with the console and other related projects.

Documentation

Peripherals

Creating photo realistic images with neural networks and a Gameboy Camera

Ben Heck Reverse Engineers Game Boy Printer (Errata: the used thermal paper is expired, 4 colors are actually printable).

Homebrews

C

flappybird-gameboy stars11

fbgb stars3

Emulator Development

Building a Game Boy emulator in JavaScript - Step by step tutorial.

Writing a Game Boy emulator, Cinoop

RealBoy Emulator - A series of posts about the design and implementation of the RealBoy Emulator.

Codeslinger - Another series of posts documenting the building of an emulator.

Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? - Blog post.

Porting a GO Game Boy emulator to WebAssembly

Related projects

liblsdj stars66 - Utility library for interacting with the LSDj save format (.sav), song files (.lsdsng) and more.

lsdpatch stars114 - Tool for modifying samples, fonts and palettes on LSDj ROM images.

Related projects

Directories

The Game Boy Archive - Salvage stars17 - Historical archive of software, old articles, FAQs and various documents.

Documentation

Cartridges

Gekkio's cartridge analysis:

MBC1+RAM+Battery cartridge Schematic - First schematics by Jeff Frohwein.

Aug 6th - Aug 12th, 2018

Software Development

Engines

ZGB stars510 - A little engine for creating games for the original Game Boy (expands gbdk, more info here).

Software Development

Graphics utilities

GBTiles stars15 - Converts .GBR files created with Harry Mulder's Tile Designer (GBTD) and .GBM files created with Harry Mulder's Map Builder (GBMB) to different formats for use with the Game Boy and GBDK.

bmp2cgb stars21 - Graphics converter for Game Boy Color development providing real time palette adjustments.

png2gb stars19 - CLI tool to convert image file to game boy .c array.

GB-convert stars26 - Game Boy tile conversion and map editor tool (converts to assembly).

brewtool - A collection of primitive editor/converter tools for making assets used with homebrew ROM development.

Software Development

Experimental/Proof of Concepts

Wiz stars351 - A high-level assembly language for writing homebrew on retro console platforms (Game Boy, NES, Atari 2600, and more).

gbforth stars96 - A Forth-based Game Boy development kit.

gbasm stars129 - A JavaScript based compiler for Game Boy z80 assembly code.

tniASM - Macro Assembler.

Assembler stars112 - Assembler written in Swift.

Jul 16th - Jul 22nd, 2018

Documentation

The Cycle-Accurate Game Boy Docs - A precise documentation by AntonioND to make a cycle-accurate Game Boy emulator.

Related projects

gameboy-brainfuck stars16 - Brainf*ck interpreter.

gbfk stars2 - Brainf*ck interpreter, with input.

Jun 18th - Jun 24th, 2018

Software Development

ASM

hardware.inc stars78 - Standard include file containing Game Boy hardware definitions for use in RGBDS projects.

Jun 4th - Jun 10th, 2018

Homebrews

ASM

GB303 stars91 - GB303 wavetable-based TB-303 style synthesizer for the Nintendo Game Boy.

Sushi stars3

Flappy-boy-asm stars84

Adjustris stars11

exeman stars26

Aevilia stars54

GBSlides stars22 - A simple Game Boy Powerpoint-like slides viewer.

Pokered-gbc stars99 - Pokémon Red remade with full GBC support.

ToyToy stars9

StefaN stars3 - Fourway Breakout clone.

Galaxia stars3

desgb stars11 - DES encryption.

superhappyfunbubbletime stars4

Homebrews

C

FlappyBoy stars20

Squishy the Turtle stars8

red hot princess carnage stars5

loderunner

Hives

GBC Atari Boxing stars2 - Atari 2600 Boxing clone for the Game Boy (Color).

PostBot stars7

Guns & Riders stars10

Homebrews

Demos

Back to Color stars22

Reverse Engineering

Game Disassemblies

pokegold-spaceworld stars274 - Pokémon Gold and Silver 1997 Space World demo.

Pokémon Yellow stars488

Pokémon Gold and Silver stars318

Link's Awakening DX stars334

Oracle of Ages stars107

FX Hammer stars5

Harvest Moon 3 stars16

May 28th - Jun 3rd, 2018

Software Development

Boilerplates and libraries

rgbds-template stars35 - Basic hello-world example for Game Boy using RGBDS.

Game Boy Assembly Language Primer - Simple template code with memory defines, copy routines and IBM font tilemap.

bootstrap.gb stars31 - An example Game Boy project.

Gameboy Boilerplate stars25 - Boilerplate project to move quicker into the actual assembly code for your game.

Software Development

C

Simplified GBDK examples stars135

May 21st - May 27th, 2018

Related projects

Game Boy video effects stars5 - Some little experiments using the STAT interrupt to do funny video manipulations.

Mar 12th - Mar 18th, 2018

Related projects

Sniffing Game Boy serial traffic with an STM32F4

Virtual Game Boy Printer with an STM32F4

Printing on the Game Boy Printer using an STM32F4

Pokemon Pocket Computer: - What is it and how to use it to make cheat codes.

Booting the Game Boy with a custom logo - Bypassing the Nintendo logo check.

Making a Game Boy game in 2017: A "Sheep It Up!" Post-Mortem (part 1, part 2)

Nintendo's fake logos - Every cartridge has to show the authentic logo to be considered valid and be run, but obviously some companies managed to exploit the check system.

Related projects

Websites

Handheld Underground - Unlicensed games, blog posts about Game Boy, home of the hhugboy emulator.

Mar 5th - Mar 11th, 2018

Related projects

Digitized Speech in Game Boy Games

Jan 8th - Jan 14th, 2018

Software Development

ASM

assemblydigest stars69 - Exploring Game Boy programming techniques:

Related projects

Directories

Archive of related files

The Game Boy Archive - A library of Game Boy related software, hardware and literature. Aimed to mirror and preserve old and fragmented contributions from the last three decades.

Jan 1st - Jan 7th, 2018

Documentation

Hardware

DMG Schematics - Hardware schematics.

Game Boy hardware database - Data and photos of various types of Game Boy consoles.

Dec 4th - Dec 10th, 2017

Documentation

Custom cartridges

Wolf - Game Boy cartridge with co-processor.

Related projects

mGB stars160 - A Game Boy cartridge program that enables the Game Boy to act as a full MIDI supported sound module.

GBVisualizer stars24 - Demonstrating the use of two undocumented Game Boy Color registers, nicknamed PCM12 (FF76) and PCM34 (FF77), which can be used to read the current PCM amplitude of the 4 APU channels.

gbcpu stars8 - A CPU and peripherals implementing the Game Boy instruction set and functionality.

Nov 20th - Nov 26th, 2017

Software Development

Timings

Video Timing

Nov 13th - Nov 19th, 2017

Software Development

ASM

Super Game Boy development - Step by step tutorial to implement Super Game Boy features (frame and palettes).

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May 9th - May 15th, 2022

Documentation

Opcodes

Apr 25th - May 1st, 2022

Reverse Engineering

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Mar 7th - Mar 13th, 2022

Homebrews

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Nov 15th - Nov 21st, 2021

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