Game Boy Emulator:

Attachments:

1. gbemu.zip

Great! Thank you so much for the update!

absolutely fantastic. id like to think i played a part in reviving this concept :p

Thanks for the update!
Gonna try this out tonight.

Has anyone had luck saving Pokemon Red, or anything else for that matter? I couldn’t seem to get it to work in the way I assume it’s supposed to – saved in game, press R trigger, turn off/on, start back on saved game?

I was quite impressed with this emulator. It ran very well on hardware, I had no idea it would include stereoscopic features! Awesome bonus. I played Tetris last night for a very long time, the gameplay was perfect and the sound was pretty much on point. Thanks so much for your work, I will end up using this for many many years!

wazzal wrote:
Very cool experience to play GB games on the VB 🙂

I thought so as well!

Hello, i’m trying to get it to work, but whenever i type it into the command line area it just pulls up “can’t open gbemu.bin ! ” Anyone else know what i’m doing wrong?

nevermind i got it. Thanks!

so far saving on pokemon red still doesn’t work from what i’ve experienced so far unless i’m doing it wrong (i pressed “R” a bunch in different situations). Haven’t tested other games yet to see if their saves work since according to the notes the first game in the list you put is the only one that will be able to save currently. However i did test metroid II and mega man II a little bit. Both seem to play alright. Metroid II was damn near unplayable before, now its fully playable just moves slower than the gameboy version a bit. Didn’t test saving in that game cause it wasn’t first on the list of the file i created. Thanks for the update to this emulator!

Pokémon requires 32KB of cartridge RAM, but Virtual Boy games historically only had 8KB. Not sure if that’s the reason it’s not working, but it was my first thought when considering Game Boy emulation initially.

Based on my experience with the Pokémon save data, I believe some simple LZ77 compression would be sufficient for packing it in a Flash Boy Plus’s SRAM, but haven’t tried it. (-:

man, this is awesome. it would be really cool if someone was able to maybe attach the connector pins from a super gameboy cartridge to a VB cart with this emulator on it so you could actually play some actual GB carts on your VB

[SmokeMonster]

Incredible work on this, MK. I have been blown away by how well the majority of games work.

I spent several hours testing GB games last night, and have a big pack of converted games that generally work.

I streamed about your emulator on my YouTube channel as I prepared the conversions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFGdatO7ys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJf_QsrhjMs

I would love to see work continue on this, and I’m sure we could even put together crowdfunding to support you if it would help.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by SmokeMonster.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by SmokeMonster.

I would chip in. The Game Boy Emulator is a crowd favorite every time I pull the “funny” Virtual Boy off the shelve.

I have tried about 30 games on the emulator and most are dreadfully slow, don’t run or crash.

This is my best choices for play list that I keep as a file for quick install on my Flashboy+.

1) Felix the Cat (slower but fully playable)
2) Zelda: Links Awakening (slower but fully playable)
3) Super Mario Land (slower but fully playable)
4) Trip World (no sound but plays near full speed and looks amazing with 3D added)
5) Zoids Densetsu (nearly perfect with minimal slowdown)
6) Dr. Mario (no sound but seems to play exact speed)
7) Snow Bros. Jr. (no sound and minor slow down)

Seems the games that have failed sound actually play the best, weird right?
What games have you had the most success from and actually wanna play on VB?

This is impressive. Would love to see a full screen mode without the surrounding game boy graphic.

These ones seem to play fine for me.

Super Mario Land
Zelda 1
Metroid II
Tetris
Dr. Mario (no sound)

Others I’ve tried that didn’t work so well.

Any Donkey Kong
Any Spiderman
Most Mega Man. 2 plays slower but not too bad. Others are way too slow.

Has anyone tried kirbys dreamland 1 or 2? Also, now that a link cable exists, it would be awesome if you could play tetris 2plyr via the link cable on the virtual boy.

SmokeMonster wrote:
Incredible work on this, MK. I have been blown away by how well the majority of games work.

I spent several hours testing GB games last night, and have a big pack of converted games that generally work.

I streamed about your emulator on my YouTube channel as I prepared the conversions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFGdatO7ys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJf_QsrhjMs

I would love to see work continue on this, and I’m sure we could even put together crowdfunding to support you if it would help.

Yea, I would love to see this emulator developed further and would gladly chip in to help that happen. Some optimizations for better speed, maybe a frameskip option, some fullscreen options, etc. It’s adding an entire library of games to the virtual boy, which is awesome.

Seam wrote:

SmokeMonster wrote:
Incredible work on this, MK. I have been blown away by how well the majority of games work.

I spent several hours testing GB games last night, and have a big pack of converted games that generally work.

I streamed about your emulator on my YouTube channel as I prepared the conversions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFGdatO7ys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJf_QsrhjMs

I would love to see work continue on this, and I’m sure we could even put together crowdfunding to support you if it would help.

Yea, I would love to see this emulator developed further and would gladly chip in to help that happen. Some optimizations for better speed, maybe a frameskip option, some fullscreen options, etc. It’s adding an entire library of games to the virtual boy, which is awesome.

I’m in the same boat, would love to donate to the development if this were to become a thing

Same… I’d Patreon or Kickstart some bucks for this.

Levine91 wrote:

Seam wrote:

SmokeMonster wrote:
Incredible work on this, MK. I have been blown away by how well the majority of games work.

I spent several hours testing GB games last night, and have a big pack of converted games that generally work.

I streamed about your emulator on my YouTube channel as I prepared the conversions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFGdatO7ys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJf_QsrhjMs

I would love to see work continue on this, and I’m sure we could even put together crowdfunding to support you if it would help.

Yea, I would love to see this emulator developed further and would gladly chip in to help that happen. Some optimizations for better speed, maybe a frameskip option, some fullscreen options, etc. It’s adding an entire library of games to the virtual boy, which is awesome.

I’m in the same boat, would love to donate to the development if this were to become a thing

so if a gb emu is possible i wonder if a nes emulator is possible.

that look really cool btw!