A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
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Jan 13, 2026
The Game Boy was a line of handheld gaming devices created and sold by Nintendo. Typically development of the Game Boy done today includes homebrew games, emulator building, and preserving code and coding techniques.
A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
Disassembly of Pokémon Crystal
Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C
An upgrade to Pokémon Crystal. Brings features and content up to date, and adds some original content.
Game Boy / Game Boy Color Emulator Library, 🎮written for WebAssembly using AssemblyScript. 🚀Demos built with Preact and Svelte. ⚛️
Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator
Disassembly of Pokémon Gold/Silver
This is my OLD and BAD GameBoy Emulator, please visit DawnGB, my new GameBoy emulator!
A tilemap editor for Game Boy, Color, Advance, DS, and SNES projects. Written in C++ with FLTK.
Gameboy / Gameboy Color Emulator PWA built with Preact. ⚛️ Powered by wasmBoy. 🎮Themed with VaporWave. 🌴🐬
A GB, GBC and GBA emulator with GB Camera support.
Learn to create games for the Game Boy using Assembly
WebXR immersive console emulator w/ Retroach, Javascript, and WASM
Doom, NES, Gameboy/Color, Sega Master System / GameGear, Sega Genesis / MegaDrive, and MSX I/II Emulators running on ESP BOX and ESP BOX-3 with a custom gamepad
C# GameBoy Emulator
latest version of original laguna source, with a handful fixes for modern compilers and systems
A Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance emulator in Crystal Lang
an exciting new adventure for the Game Boy Color
This began as a little enhancement and polish added to Matteo Forlani's M5Stack Cardputer concept implementation of Peanut-GB; then I decided I might as well just finish it myself when the original project was archived. I wound up creating my own Walnut-CGB enhanced implementation which powers Gameboy Enhanced Firmware.
Created by Gunpei Yokoi
Released April 21, 1989