RealBoy

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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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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yugiohjcj Posted 2014-01-03

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.

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

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