Virtual Virtual Boy is an emulator for the Virtual Boy 3D console. You can use it with a pair of cheap Anaglyph 3D glasses or with Google Cardboard to play Virtual Boy games on an Android phone.
- Install JDK8 and make sure it's in your path
- Install rustup
- Add targets for the four supported platforms:
rustup target add armv7-linux-androideabi # for arm
rustup target add i686-linux-android # for x86
rustup target add aarch64-linux-android # for arm64
rustup target add x86_64-linux-android # for x86_64
gradlew build
If you're testing on a specific device, you can speed up builds by setting rust.targets
in the local.properties
file to the architecture you care about.
# only compile for x86_64
rust.targets=x86_64
- Add a .vb file to [./app/src/main/assets/games].
- Add an entry to [./app/src/main/res/raw/bundledgames.json].
cargo test
Several features are not implemented:
- Software Game Pad reads (every game I tested against used hardware reads)
- Some VIP interrupts (TIMEERR, SBHIT)
- Game Pad and Game Pak interrupts
- Game Pak expansions and the link cable
- The instruction cache
- Guy Perfect for writing the extremely helpful Virtual Boy Sacred Tech Scroll
- Pi Lanningham and Robert Kellett for rubber ducking
- AngelofMe and soundsnow for the Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish translations