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SameBoy LIJI32
Use this command to install SameBoy:
winget install --id=LIJI32.SameBoy -e SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C.
SameBoy is an open-source emulator for the Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB), written in portable C. It provides high-accuracy emulation of both systems, supporting features such as battery save, save states, and advanced debugging tools.
Key Features:
- High Accuracy: Passes all major test ROMs, including blargg’s and mooneye-gb tests.
- Multi-Platform Support: Runs on macOS (Cocoa frontend), Linux/FreeBSD (SDL frontend), and Windows.
- Advanced Debugging: Includes a text-based debugger with disassembly, breakpoints, watchpoints, and an expression evaluator.
- High-Quality Audio: Emulates PCM_12 and PCM_34 registers for accurate sound reproduction.
- Custom Palettes: Supports manual palette selection with additional palettes for CGB games.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for retro gaming enthusiasts, game developers, and educators seeking precise emulation of Game Boy classics. SameBoy also serves as a powerful development tool for testing and debugging through its advanced debugging capabilities.
SameBoy can be installed via winget on compatible systems.
README
SameBoy
SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C. It has a native Cocoa frontend for macOS, an SDL frontend for other operating systems, and a libretro core. It also includes a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator. Visit the website.
Features
Features common to both Cocoa and SDL versions:
- Supports Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulation
- Lets you choose the model you want to emulate regardless of ROM
- High quality 96KHz audio
- Battery save support
- Save states
- Includes open source DMG and CGB boot ROMs:
- Complete support for (and documentation of) all game-specific palettes in the CGB boot ROM, for accurate emulation of Game Boy games on a Game Boy Color
- Supports manual palette selection with key combinations, with 4 additional new palettes (A + B + direction)
- Supports palette selection in a CGB game, forcing it to run in 'paletted' DMG mode, if ROM allows doing so.
- Support for games with a non-Nintendo logo in the header
- No long animation in the DMG boot
- Advanced text-based debugger with an expression evaluator, disassembler, conditional breakpoints, conditional watchpoints, backtracing and other features
- Extremely high accuracy
- Emulates PCM_12 and PCM_34 registers
- T-cycle accurate emulation of LCD timing effects, supporting the Demotronic trick, Prehistorik Man, GBVideoPlayer and other tech demos
- Real time clock emulation
- Retina/High DPI display support, allowing a wider range of scaling factors without artifacts
- Optional frame blending (Requires OpenGL 3.2 or later)
- Several scaling algorithms (Including exclusive algorithms like OmniScale and Anti-aliased Scale2x; Requires OpenGL 3.2 or later or Metal)
Features currently supported only with the Cocoa version:
- Native Cocoa interface, with support for all system-wide features, such as drag-and-drop and smart titlebars
- Game Boy Camera support
Compatibility
SameBoy passes all of blargg's test ROMs, all of mooneye-gb's tests (Some tests require the original boot ROMs), and all of . SameBoy should work with most games and demos, please any broken ROM. The latest results for SameBoy's automatic tester are available .