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mgba-emu/mgba

mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator

Stack

C pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-boy #game-boy-advance #game-boy-color #game-boy-emulator #gameboy

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 2 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 836 open

7,165

stars

Forks: 1,024
Commits: 9,086 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Baekalfen/PyBoy

Game Boy emulator written in Python

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cython #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #gameboy-emulator-library #pypy

Updated: 2026-06-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-25
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

5,165

stars

Forks: 534
Commits: 1,003 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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skylersaleh/SkyEmu

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

Stack

C Android pytest CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-advance #gameboy-color #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-21
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 255 open

1,213

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 1,076 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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drhelius/Gearboy

Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Super Game Boy emulator, debugger and embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bsd #emulation #emulator #game-boy #gameboy #gameboy-color-emulator

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-19
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

1,172

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 2,204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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aappleby/metroboy

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

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #hdl #simulator #verilog

Updated: 2025-02-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-21
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

1,165

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 4,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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trekawek/coffee-gb

Gameboy emulator in Java and Kotlin.

AI dev

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #z80

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-31
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,150

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Gekkio/mooneye-gb

A Game Boy research project and emulator written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#emulator #game-boy #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #rust

Updated: 2023-03-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-12-18
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 43 open

967

stars

Forks: 60
Commits: 704 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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binji/binjgb

Gameboy emulator implemented in C, that also runs in the browser

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #gb-emulator #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-28
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

603

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

deltabeard/Peanut-GB

A very fast and portable Game Boy (DMG) emulator single header library written in C99.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #dmg #emulator-library #gameboy #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-01-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-24
History: 3 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

505

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SuperDisk/hUGETracker

The music composition suite for the Nintendo Game Boy

Stack

Pascal

GitHub topics

#freepascal #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #homebrew #lazarus #module

Updated: 2026-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-18
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 43 open

357

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

robert/gameboy-doctor

Debug and fix your gameboy emulator

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2024-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-02
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

279

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BotRandomness/CODE-DMG

CODE-DMG, a Gameboy emulator, written in C#.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#dmg #gameboy #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2025-02-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

264

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 21 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AntonioND/giibiiadvance

A GB, GBC and GBA emulator with GB Camera support.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #gameboy #gameboy-advance #gameboy-advance-emulator #gameboy-color #gameboy-color-emulator

Updated: 2026-01-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-06
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 0 open

211

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 501 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fengb/fundude

Gameboy emulator: Zig -> wasm

Archived

Stack

Zig Express npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#gameboy-emulator #wasm #zig

Updated: 2021-11-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-20
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

204

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mattcurrie/mealybug-tearoom-tests

🪲☕️ Game Boy emulator test ROMs

Stack

Assembly

GitHub topics

#game-boy #gameboy #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2020-12-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-26
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 52 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nicotsx/nextgba

Self-hosted app to play Gameboy games in your browser 🕹️

Stack

TypeScript Express Next.js React Remix Bun npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#gameboy-emulator #retrogaming #self-hosted

Updated: 2025-12-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-19
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 31 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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PumpMagic/ostrich

A Game Boy Sound System player for macOS, written in Swift

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#appkit #chiptune #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #gbs #swift

Updated: 2017-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-19
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 97 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ChillyGB/ChillyGB

ChillyGB is a Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator written in C

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #cmake #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-emulator #raylib

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-03
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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