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gameboy (rim-buei)
Simple Game Boy (DMG) emulator in Rust that aims for accuracy over features and runs some games; also usable as a learning reference.
Rewrite Human-led wip
Facts
- Original
- Game Boy
- Platform
- Game Boy
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2018, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- MIT
- Team
- rim-buei
- Started
- 2018-10
- Runs on
- Web, Windows, Linux, macOS
- 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 you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by rim-buei. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction
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