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==Emulators==

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! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Latest Version

! scope="col"|Game Link Support

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|[[SameBoy]]

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|[[BGB]]

|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[Gambatte]]

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|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[BizHawk]]

|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]

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|[[higan]]

|[http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ {{higanVer}}]

|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[mGBA]]

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|[https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases {{VBAMVer}}]

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|[[Pantheon]]

|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|[http://hhug.me/ hhugboy]

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[KiGB]]

|[http://kigb.emuunlim.com/downloads.htm 2.05]

|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[TGB Dual]]

|[https://github.com/libertyernie/tgbdual_L/releases "L" v1.2]

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N name=two /> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|GiiBiiAdvance

|[https://github.com/AntonioND/giibiiadvance/releases 0.2.0]

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[[mGBA]]

|[https://endrift.com/mgba/downloads.html {{MGBAVer}}]

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|? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|1.2

|? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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!colspan="7"|Consoles

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|[http://gbatemp.net/threads/gameyob-a-gameboy-emulator-for-ds.343407/ GameYob DS]

|[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/GameYob Git]

|{{✓}} <small>(NiFi)</small> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

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|[https://gbatemp.net/threads/gameyob-3ds-gb-c-emu.372523/ GameYob 3DS]

|[https://github.com/Steveice10/GameYob/releases v1.0.8]

|? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[VisualBoy_Advance#VBA-M|Visual Boy Advance-M (VBA-M)]]

|r1231

|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} <small>(as VBA-Next)</small> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-masterboy-210-f28308.html MasterBoy]

|2.10

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[Virtual Console]]

|8.10

|{{✓}} <small>(Pokemon only)</small> ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

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|[[mGBA]]

|[https://endrift.com/mgba/downloads.html {{MGBAVer}}]

|? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

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|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-gemp-homers-rin-33-final-f27565.html GeMP]

|3.3 Final

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

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|[http://dl.qj.net/psp/emulators/rin-v132-gameboy-emulator/gameboy-color-emulator.html RIN]

|1.32

|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

====Game Boy-only emulators====

;[[TGB Dual]]:An ancient emulator that supports link cable emulation. It also supports [[netplay]], but it requires a VPN. The libretro port supports local multiplayer using player 2's controls.

;[[KiGB]]:An old and obsolete emulator which boasted its accuracy but was proven to be full of game-specific hacks.<ref>https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues/238</ref><ref>http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Test_ROMs#Emulators_running_on_desktop_computers</ref><ref>http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/KiGB</ref> It has a wide selection of features, but other emulators have caught up and are already doing much better.

;[https://github.com/AntonioND/giibiiadvance GiiBiiAdvance]:Pioneered full GB Camera emulation, including webcam support. Aside from that, it's an unfinished emulator with the basics set up, but its promising future currently on hiatus. It has very accurate timing.

====Backwards-compatible GBA emulators====

;[[mGBA]]:Primarily emulates the [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]] but it also includes GB/C support much like the original system. It's still in development, but it's already on the level of many other emulators.

;[[GBE+]]:A recently rewritten emulator that has a large effort in preserving the functions of [[#Game Boy Features|obscure accessories]] that other emulators don't focus on. It can also load custom tiles in games, including colorized tiles for original Game Boy titles.

;[[BizHawk]]:Uses a modified Gambatte core. It provides speedrunning tools.

;[[MAME]]:Has solid Game Boy emulation through its <code>gameboy</code> driver despite the sound being imperfect, as well as slightly worse Game Boy Color compatibility through its <code>gbcolor</code> driver (where both the graphics and sound are imperfect). Despite its setbacks, it aims to feature compatibility with obscure mappers that other emulators usually ignore, like Wisdom Tree games or MMM01 multicarts. Accuracy was improved upon with contributions by Judge_.

===Oversaturation===

This issue also affects [[Game Boy Advance emulators#Oversaturation|Game Boy Advance emulation]].

===Unlicensed Mappers===

However, shit hits the fan when it comes to '''unlicensed games''', since they didn't necessarily respect Nintendo's specifications about how a given mapper type should handle its memory and behave in general, and internal headers were often filled with erroneous data to hinder dumping and emulation efforts. Some emulators like MESS and [http://hhug.me/?tags=hhugboy hhugboy] try to emulate that behavior with various degrees of success ([http://hhug.me/dump/ Compatibility List]). The hhugboy project also proposed a similar solution to iNES for this mapper problem, as the [http://hhug.me/gbx/1.0 gbx ROM format] that appends a footer with extra information needed for some unlicensed games. However, this format, much less unlicensed hardware quirks, isn't widely adopted aside from tentative mGBA support.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Build to Use

! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]

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|[[mGBA]]

|{{✓}}

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|[[VisualBoy Advance#VBA-M|VBA-M]]

|Latest

|{{✓}}

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|GiiBiiAdvance

|?

|{{✗}}

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|[[BGB]]

|?

|{{✗}}

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|Hashcam

|[http://www.darkfader.net/gbc Source]

|{{✗}}

The first emulator to have some capability of emulating the Game Boy Camera was a modified version of an old emulator called Hash. This version, named Hashcam, can still be found on the author's website. While there were some efforts to run the Game Boy Camera ROM in BGB unofficially, the author didn't show much interest in it. However, it is fully emulated with webcam support in a lesser-known emulator called GiiBiiAdvance.

===Motion Control (Tilt Sensor)===

There is a Japan-only accessory that communicates with Mobile Golf and Japanese Pokémon Crystal. It was bundled with Mobile Trainer cartridge which allowed the player to use e-mail as well as browse Nintendo's website. It saw use on some Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games, but support was limited to Japan, and the servers went offline by 2002.

====Hudsonsoft KISS Link====

===Accessories===

* '''Barcode Boy:''' An obscure Japan-only barcode-scanning device released by Namcot (then-Namco's consumer division) in 1992. A total of 4 games were released to utilize this accessory. KiGB and GEST claim support for this device, but they only feed random data to Game Boy until the game accepts it as a valid barcode. GBE+ has [https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art7.html proper emulation] with the ability to read barcodes from binary files.

* '''Barcode Taisen Bardigun:''' Another Japan only barcode-scanning device with the dedicated game. GBE+ [https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art6.html supports this accessory].

==References==

* [http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page Game Boy Development Wiki] – Information about the Game Boy

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_j0w7r6xSk Emulating Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer in BGB (work in progress)] – Game Boy Camera ROM running in BGB unofficially by exploiting linking capabilities

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