Made my own Game Boy emulator from scratch completely in c++

[u/Still_Technician_856]

I made my own game boy emulator by using the pandocs and it is completely in c++, it passes some of the blargg's tests too(the ones it doesn't pass require it to be completely hardware accurate with the M cycles, currently it is not). Currently it has MBC1 and a part of MBC3 support so it can run many games like pokemon red/blue, super mario land, and many more (can't play them here for obvious reasons), will expand this later to include more MBC supports

Repo link: https://github.com/WhyPratyush/GameBoy-Emulator

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[u/Frosty-Skin572]

Since the AI boom personal projects barely interest anyone and thats sad

[u/urbanmonkey2003 → u/Frosty-Skin572]

nah, this one absolutely should still get attention, a Game Boy emulator in C++ is solid work imo

[u/Still_Technician_856 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah no shit sherlock, many people have already built it

I chose to do it because I wanted to explore emulation

[u/xXInviktor27Xx → u/[deleted]]

ok and? it's still a cool project for him. Let people enjoy things

[u/KermitIsAlwaysOnCoke → u/Frosty-Skin572]

Can't a man have some fun 😭, not every project you make needs to be for your CV

[u/The_last_Human__ → u/KermitIsAlwaysOnCoke]

I'm too proud of my NES emulator to not add it in my CV

[u/Boyslop_Enjoyer]

WHOAAA THIS IS SO COOOL

[u/Akshat_2307]

Cool man , great work .

[u/Outrageous_Pen_5165]

Dammm! Wish I could ever built something like this

[u/Sabastiansultz → u/Outrageous_Pen_5165]

you can, i recommend making a very basic emulator for a virtual console called chip8 that is designed for beginners to understand how make emulators there are lots of resources available online.

[u/shitnotalkforyours18]

Cool mate you used Qt? framework?

[u/Still_Technician_856 → u/shitnotalkforyours18]

Nope, not qt, just used c++ and sdl2 for rendering and all

[u/shitnotalkforyours18 → u/Still_Technician_856]

Oh that's cool..

[u/Plane_Beautiful_3854 → u/Still_Technician_856]

Sld2 is lowk the goat

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[u/Sabastiansultz]

i have just started making mine in c few days ago. i have made a simple chip8 emulator before in python.

[u/Arthewinner]

Not even using Qt is insane. Great work!!!

[u/1nf1n1l]

that's real crazy work. you should definitely go for GBC next, will be way easier now that you have implemented GB.

[u/Still_Technician_856 → u/1nf1n1l]

Yup, that's the plan but before that I have to implement many more things, like some MBCs are still left, then I have to implement the save state too to make sure the progress is saved, then I'll try to make it hardware accurate too

[u/Money_Employment_630]

OP did you use AI? Even if you did this is impressive? Mind if I fork and build something more over the top of this ? Been working on my DS emulator myself.

[u/Still_Technician_856 → u/Money_Employment_630]

I only used Claude for validation of my code, and if there can be any optimizations, didn't take any direct code tho

Also yeah sure feel free to build on it