Game Boy / Color Emulators for Linux
Mednafen v1.31.0
Mednafen is a great multiplatform emulator that emulates the following platforms:
There is support for graphic filters.
The mednafen package is present in many distributions.
The emulator runs only from the command line, but you can try the front-end of mednaffe and mfe.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about F1 key.
What to do if there is no sound.
- Atari Lynx [lynx]
- GameBoy (Color) [gb]
- GameBoy Advance [gba]
- Neo Geo Pocket (Color) [ngp]
- Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom [nes]
- PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx [pce]
- PC-FX [pcfx]
- Sega Game Gear [gg]
- Sega Genesis/MegaDrive [md]
- Sega Master System [sms]
- Sony PlayStation [psx]
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom [snes]
- Virtual Boy [vb]
- WonderSwan [wswan]
There is support for graphic filters.
The mednafen package is present in many distributions.
The emulator runs only from the command line, but you can try the front-end of mednaffe and mfe.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about F1 key.
What to do if there is no sound.
- Date: August 27, 2022
- Size: 19.1 MiB
- Downloads: 15776
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Mesen v2.0.0, 8 Jul 2024
Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, PC Engine and SMS/Game Gear games. Features of the emulator include:
- High accuracy;
- High compatibility (support 220 mappers for NES);
- Savestates, audio and video recording, etc;
- Video filters;
- Stereo effects;
- Date: Jul 8 2024
- Size: 184 MiB
- Downloads: 20304
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VBA-M v2.0.0 beta 1
Game Boy (Color/ Advance) emulator for Linux. It is based on VBA and claims to be the most functional among such projects, because it combines the most interesting features of other VBA-based projects. GTK2-based GUI.
- Size: 18.2 MiB
- Downloads: 6217
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VGB
A great emulator for Linux, with a decent amount of useful features. Save states, play all cartridge formats, as well as GameLink, Pocket Printer, Rumble Pack, Super GameBoy, and more.
- Date: November 7, 2021
- Size: 1.2 MiB
- Downloads: 1256
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ares v140
ares is an open-source multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has a native graphical interface on each system. It has a native GUI on each system. It is a descendant of higan, byuu and bsnes and is focused on emulation accuracy. It emulates the following systems:
- Atari 2600 (Experimental)
- WonderSwan (Color)
- Pocket Challenge V2
- ColecoVision
- MSX / MSX2 (Experimental)
- PC-Engine / TurboGrafx / SuperGrafx
- PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
- My Vision
- NES / Famicom
- Famicom Disk System
- Game Boy (Color)
- SNES / Super Famicom
- Satellaview
- Nintendo 64 / 64DD
- SuFami Turbo
- Game Boy Advance
- Game Gear / Master System / Mark III / SG-1000
- Mega Drive / Genesis / Sega CD / Mega CD / 32X
- ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
- Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
- Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
- PlayStation (Experimental)
- Date: 27.08.2024
- Size: 203 MiB
- Downloads: 19208
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DMGBoy v2.0
Game Boy (Color) emulator for Linux. Used to be called gbpablog. GUI on wxwidgets.
- Date: 2014-05-11
- Size: 2.5 MiB
- Downloads: 857
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DSP Emulator
Open source multi-system emulator for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Notable for being developed in Pascal (Delphi/Lazarus). It supports emulation of ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, NES, GameBoy (Color), ColecoVision, Chip 8, Sega Master System and various arcade machines (see readme.txt).
- Date: 28.10.2024
- Size: 53.2 MiB
- Downloads: 38466
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Gambatte r571
Game Boy / Color emulator for Linux. Supports video filters, saves, GUI (Qt), etc.
- Date: 2014-09-28
- Size: 1.8 MiB
- Downloads: 1544
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glBoy v1.0.0 (src)
Game Boy emulator for Linux.
- Features
- hq4x upscaling via OpenGL 2.0 programmable shaders.
- MBC1 emulation
- Sound
- Known Issues
- The emulator crashes on some games due to incorrect z80 emulation.
- I've only compiled the source on Linux, using an nVidia video card. No guarantees the code will work with ATI drivers, or other OS's.
- Size: 57 KiB
- Downloads: 670
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Gngb 2006/03/09 (src)
Game Boy / Color emulator for Linux.
- Date: 09.03.2006
- Size: 165 KiB
- Downloads: 1315
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GNUBoy v1.0.3
Game Boy (Color) emulator for Linux. Present in repositories of many distributions.
- Date: 07.12.2001
- Size: 276 KiB
- Downloads: 208
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higan v110
A multiplatform emulator with a very confusing history. Originally called bsnes, it was renamed higan and became multiplatform, as higan is not a game-friendly emulator, Near first spun off the bsnes core project into a separate emulator with a more user-friendly interface and a much faster multi-threaded PPU renderer. Then the byuu project was spun off to build on the success of bsnes and offer an easy to use emulator for all emulator kernels, but after Near left the project, the community continues to develop a new project ares - which combines higan, byuu and bsnes. higan has a rather unusual interface and all that would be fine, but the requirement to import ROMs (think making copies) of any ROMs you intend to run in it is extremely inconvenient. So we advise you to look in the direction of ares.
The latest versions supports emulation: Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Super Famicom, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2.
The latest versions supports emulation: Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Super Famicom, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2.
- Date: Mar 20, 2020
- Size: 33.2 MiB
- Downloads: 10292
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KiGB v2.02
One of the best Game Boy emulators for Linux. Excellent game compatibility, frame skipping, internet play, GameGenie and GameShark, etc.
- Date: 10.12.2005
- Size: 466 KiB
- Downloads: 1230
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SkyEmu v3
A low-level GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Game Boy Advance emulator.
The main focus is on good user interaction, through a good combination of accuracy, performance, features and usability
- Author: skylersaleh
- Date: 15.08.2023
- Size: 22.4 MiB
- Downloads: 24
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Xe v2.16.2
Multisystem emulator for Linux and Windows. Emulates:
- SG-1000
- Famicom / NES
- Mark III / Master System
- PC Engine & PC Engine CD-ROM2 / Turbo Grafx 16 & Turbo Grafx CD
- Mega Drive & Mega CD / Genesis & Sega CD
- Super Famicom / SNES
- Neo Geo
- Neo Geo CD
- Game Boy & Game Boy Color
- Game Gear
- Neo Geo Pocket & Neo Geo Pocket Color
- Wonder Swan & Wonder Swan Color
- Date: 01.04.2009
- Size: 11.2 MiB
- Downloads: 25840
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