SameBoy
SameBoy is a user friendly Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator that's very accurate and includes a wide range of powerful debugging features. In addition to accuracy and developer capabilities, SameBoy has all the features one would expect from an emulator – from save states to scaling filters.
Last Stable Release:
0.13.6
Dated:
22-08-2020
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Windows: Doesn't mention minimum
Linux: Unix-like systems
Mac: Doesn't mention minimum
BGB
BGB is a Gameboy emulator which lets you run Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. It has excellent accuracy, gamepad support, high quality sound and graphics, smooth V-sync animation, and low latency. In addition, it contains a debugger that lets you analyze/look into the emulation, create cheat codes, and assist in creating and modifying roms.
Last Stable Release:
1.5.8
Dated:
18-03-2020
Development-builds available: None reported
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Windows: 32/64-bit
Gambatte
Gambatte is a portable, open-source Game Boy Color emulator. Its accuracy is among the highest and is based off numerous reverse engineering tests and documented studies. It is currently available as both a core for RetroArch, as well as an individual emulator. That said, it's not actively developed anymore.
Last Stable Release:
r571
Dated:
28-09-2014
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Windows: Doesn't mention minimum
Linux: Doesn't mention minimum
Mac: OS X+
Gearboy
Gearboy is an open-source Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulator written in C++. It's not the most accurate, but runs on iOS, Raspberry Pi, Mac, Windows, Linux and RetroArch.
Last Stable Release:
3.2.0
Dated:
31-12-2020
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Windows: 32-bit (Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable required)
Linux: nothing in particualr mentionned
Mac:via brew install gearboy