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Re:Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can ... by small_scombrus on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:06PM (#43430496)
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/

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Re:Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can ... by lxgr on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:25PM (#43431244)
Then again, a Game Boy emulator is usually the second thing people port to any given platform (immediately after Doom) :)
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Re:Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can ... by girvo on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:34PM (#43431285)
And all of the ones ModRetro is publishing!

https://modretro.com/collections/games

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Re:Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can ... by lochnessduck on Friday March 21, 2025 @12:24AM (#43431838)
Then there’s chip8 and a chip8 emulator on the gameboy :) https://github.com/lancekindle/damaged-chip8
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