I see these retro emulators pop up from time to time, but I just don't have the time to really check them out (or the discipline to realize always an addict looking to avoid relapse). I know that there are "complications" about the ROMs to use in the emulator. However, is there a scene of people making ROMs of new games specifically for playing in these emulators? Are the game devs that are making modern games for retro systems that would be free of the "complications"?

People are making new GameBoy games[0]! Even new carts[1]!

Though I imagine the rise of systems like the Pico8 and tic80 are siphoning people away because they can be run anywhere.

0 - https://archive.org/details/grimaces-birthday

1 - https://orangegb.com/orangefm/

Then again, a Game Boy emulator is usually the second thing people port to any given platform (immediately after Doom) :)

And all of the ones ModRetro is publishing!

https://modretro.com/collections/games

Then there’s chip8 and a chip8 emulator on the gameboy :) https://github.com/lancekindle/damaged-chip8

Have you seen the pico8 software?

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

I have now!

Opossum Country is pretty neat: https://benjelter.itch.io/opossum-country

I have written my own game for the original game boy[1] with the goal of bringing very modern tetris (Think Tetris the Grand Master) to a retro system. It's free and open source. Though the sound seems to not work well on the emulator in parent. I've tested it on real hardware and it is definitely an emulator bug.

1. https://github.com/Villadelfia/dmgtris

LSDj is a pretty cool music sequencer ROM

https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJjg7UoLl0&t=143s

Random list here I made: https://itch.io/c/2058440/gameboy