phpboy

Game Boy Color emulator written in PHP 8.4 with DMG compatibility, a working terminal frontend and in-progress WebAssembly and SDL2 frontends.

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Source code

Image: the project's own README · source

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Facts

Original: Game Boy Color (1998)
Platform: Game Boy Color
Method: Rewrite
Provenance: Not stated what this means
Status: wip
Licence: MIT
Team: eddmann
Started: 2025-11
Needs the original: Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Game Boy Color you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by eddmann. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

Sources

https://github.com/eddmann/phpboy

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