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Re:Building a Game Boy Emulator with Rust by plandis on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:38PM (#26985650)
I would honestly recommend not trying to emulate the gameboy if you’re doing emulation for the first time. I did this and it didn’t go very well (but perhaps I’m a below average person)

Chip8 or the NES (6502+PPU) are probably better places to start for beginners.

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Re:Building a Game Boy Emulator with Rust by jdmoreira on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:06PM (#26986696)
Isn't the PPU very hard? Especially the fact that both the 6502 and the PPU execute in parallel?
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Re:Building a Game Boy Emulator with Rust by plandis on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:06PM (#26987416)
The PPU is definitely complex but the NES has the benefit of being much, much, much better documented than the GB which is honestly a huge advantage.

The NES also has a bunch of complex cartridge mappers but you don’t necessarily need to implement the most complex ones like MMC5.

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