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Awesome Gbdev
A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
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mgba-emu/mgba
mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator
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- 2026-06-24
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- 2013-04-04
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- MPL-2.0
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gbdev/rgbds
Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color
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- 2026-06-09
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- 2009-06-11
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Gekkio/mooneye-gb
A Game Boy research project and emulator written in Rust
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- 2023-03-16
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- 2014-12-18
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- GPL-3.0
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Zal0/ZGB
Game Boy / Color engine with lots of features
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- 2024-08-01
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- 2016-06-26
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- MIT
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Rangi42/tilemap-studio
A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, DS, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.
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- 2026-05-02
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- 1 list mention
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- 2019-08-02
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mattcurrie/mgbdis
Game Boy ROM disassembler with RGBDS compatible output
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- 2026-05-26
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- 2018-01-09
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zlfn/rust-gb
Compile Rust code to GBZ80 (Gameboy Z80)
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- 2026-06-07
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- 2026-06-02
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- Unknown
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mattcurrie/gb-save-states
💾 Patches to add save state support to Game Boy games when playing on the original hardware
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- 2025-02-18
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- 2017-07-14
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svendahlstrand/game-boy-lcd-sniffing
👃 Crack open your old Game Boy and peek at the LCD data bus.
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- 2017-08-11
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- 2017-07-23
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drhelius/arduinogameboy
Arduino based Game Boy cartridge reader and writer. It can dump ROM and RAM to SD card.
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- 2023-12-13
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- 2012-12-31
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- MIT
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- 1 open
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SimonLarsen/tobutobugirl-dx
An arcade platformer homebrew game for the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy
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- 2023-01-29
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- 2014-08-07
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- MIT
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mattcurrie/mealybug-tearoom-tests
🪲☕️ Game Boy emulator test ROMs
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- 2020-12-19
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- 2018-04-26
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msinger/dmg-schematics
Reverse engineered schematics of the Game Boy's DMG-CPU B chip
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- 2022-01-31
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bbbbbr/Petris
A puzzle game for the Game Boy Color (CGB), Analogue Pocket (AP) and Game Gear(GG). Build pets in all shapes and sizes, keep the board clear.
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- 2026-05-31
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- 2020-12-14
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- NOASSERTION
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Zal0/Super-Princess-2092-Exodus
Our entry for the gbjam 2016
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- 2022-11-02
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- 1 list mention
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- 2016-10-07
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- Unknown
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- 0 open
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- 7
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svendahlstrand/10-print-game-boy
🖨 Port of a famous C64 BASIC one-liner to the Game Boy.
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- 2018-07-30
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- 2018-01-07
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- MIT
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dubvulture/gbdev
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- 2017-11-05
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- 2017-10-25
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Sanqui/swapdump
super swap & dump multi new 2015
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- 2016-07-23
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- 2015-09-26
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