RealBoy is a Complete, Fast, Accurate, Free/Open-Source Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy Emulator for Linux/Unix.

Features

  • Accuracy: Pass various test ROMS designed to evaluate the accuracy of a Game Boy emulator, including: CPU Instructions, Instructions' Timings and Memory Access Timings.
  • Performance: For 64-bit versions of the x86 architecture (a.k.a x86_64, a.k.a amd64), an Assembly Language version of the emulator's core is provided, significantly faster than the C version.
  • Super Game Boy borders
  • Support for MBC1, MBC3 and MBC5.
  • Support for RTC (Real Time Clock) in MBC3.
  • Support for executing the original boot ROMS (files not included for legal reasons).
  • Internal Debugger: Basic functionality such as adding breakpoints, printing registers, etc.
  • FPS: User control over framerate (default is 60fps).
  • Sound: Implemented channels 1, 2 and 4.
  • Video: Scaling to 2x, 3x and 4x, with or without fullscreen.
  • Video: Antialiasing.
  • Easily portable: Relies on multi-platform SDL library

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Categories

Games, Emulators

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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User Reviews

  • Nice emulator. I can compile it on Slackware 14.0 without problem. The Pokemon Trading Card Game and Double Dragon roms work well on RealBoy. Thank you a lot for this open-source software.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, Education, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Command-line, Console/Terminal

Programming Language

Assembly, C

Related Categories

Assembly Games, Assembly Emulators, C Games, C Emulators

Registered

2013-01-09