Game Boy / Color Emulators for Windows
BGB v1.6.4
Nintendo Game Boy \ Game Boy Color emulator. Handy, fast, with good compatibility and ZIP support.
- emulation of the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and Super Gameboy
- accurate emulation of the hardware, based on research with lots of test roms, useful for debugging/rom development
- powerful debugger
- graphics output: GDI, DirectDraw, Direct3D, OpenGL, null output
- graphics doubler: HQ2X, Scale2x, scanlines filter, blocky
- Accurate/high quality sound emulation, bandlimited synthesis
- accurate video emulation including "high color" graphics, correct sprite/background priorities, 10 sprites/line limit, and mid-scanline register changes.
- Joystick/Gamepad support, everything mappable to every button
- Auto delay/frameskip, emulation runs at 100% real speed and full 60 fps
- GameGenie and GameShark cheat, load/save cheats (auto and manual), "cheat searcher", easy creation of new cheat codes
- save/load state with quick (zsnes style, and mappable) keys.
- back and forward compatibility of sav files and save states so your saved progress is not lost. bgb can load all save files of previous versions.
- Load from ZIP and GZIP files
- support for optional border bitmap and pseudo and real fullscreen modes.
- TCP/IP game link support
- Date: 31.08.2024
- Size: 9 MiB
- Downloads: 29925
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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: 20284
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VBA-M v2.1.10
Game Boy / Color / Advance emulator for Windows. 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.
- Date: 09.09.2024
- Size: 190 MiB
- Downloads: 48940
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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: 19204
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byuu v4
Emulator byuu is a project from the developer of bsnes and higan emulators, which combines the friendly interface of the former and the multi-system (with emphasis on accuracy) of the latter. List of emulated platforms: NES, SNES, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan (Color), Pocket Challenge V2, Neo Geo Pocket (Color). Was merged back with higan evolving into the ares project.
- Author: Near (byuu)
- Date: 20.03.2020
- Size: 5.1 MiB
- Downloads: 62727
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DMGBoy v2.0
Game Boy (Color) emulator for Windows. Formerly called gbpablog.
- Date: 2014-05-11
- Size: 10.2 MiB
- Downloads: 4462
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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: 38463
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Gambatte v0.4.1
Game Boy/ Color emulator for Windows. Supports video filters, saves, GUI (QT), etc.
- Date: 11.02.2009
- Size: 1.9 MiB
- Downloads: 4088
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Gamelad v1.61
GB/GBC emulator, has a built-in debugger, memory viewer and other not all needed features. There is a possibility of fullscreen, you can record the game in AVI!
- Date: 05.10.2001
- Size: 146 KiB
- Downloads: 5690
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GEST v1.1.1
A great open source emulator.
Supports Zip archives, Super Game Boy games, video filters, and more.
- Date: 06.01.2011
- Size: 487 KiB
- Downloads: 3881
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GEX v0.9.7
Compact emulator with a minimal set of functions.
- Date: 20.11.2003
- Size: 121 KiB
- Downloads: 2278
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GNUBoy v1.0.3
GB/GBC emulator. Very fast, with very good compatibility. Support for saves, joysticks. Run from the command line.
- Date: 07.12.2001
- Size: 397 KiB
- Downloads: 3525
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InfoGB v0.5j
InfoGB is an open source Game Boy emulator for Windows.
- Date: 27.11.2003
- Size: 138 KiB
- Downloads: 1924
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KiGB v2.05
Game Boy/ Game Boy Color emulator. Just a great emulator, low system requirements, a lot of settings (frame skipping, palette, sound, video, etc.), not bad speed and support ZIP.
- In SGB mode, up to 4 players can be supported
- Support of the game "Gameboy Camera" (without the camera functions)
- Per-game configuration such that each game can have its own custom palettes (GB only), key mapping, etc.
- Support Gameboy Printer.
- Support boot ROM for GB.
- Simulate boot ROM for GBC.
- Support an experimental graphics effect: shadow.
- Date: 11.06.2008
- Size: 440 KiB
- Downloads: 5062
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Mario v0.2.4
Game Boy emulator in Java for Windows.
- Date: 02.11.2007
- Size: 53 KiB
- Downloads: 2147
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Mednafen
Mednafen is a great multiplatform emulator that emulates the following platforms:
There is support for graphic filters.
Attention: emulator runs only from command line. But you can use shell: Mednaffe or MedGui Reborn.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about the F1 key.
- 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.
Attention: emulator runs only from command line. But you can use shell: Mednaffe or MedGui Reborn.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about the F1 key.
- Date: January 19, 2022
- Size: 42.8 MiB
- Downloads: 75060
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NO$GMB v2.5
Fast emulator with a lot of useful features such as save/loading, battery ram saving, two-player game via "cable" on one computer, Game Genie, etc.
- Date: 23.07.2000
- Size: 138 KiB
- Downloads: 3319
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PotatoMulti v0.0.5
Java-based multi-system emulator. Emulates:
- ColecoVision
- Game Boy
- Game Gear
- Master System
- Mega Drive
- NES
- PC Engine
- Date: 07.01.2006
- Size: 914 KiB
- Downloads: 48321
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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: 15.4 MiB
- Downloads: 242
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VBA Plus v0.3.0
A Game Boy / Color / Advance emulator based on VisualBoy Advance.
- Date: 07.09.2010
- Size: 463 KiB
- Downloads: 16956
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VBA ReRecording
A version of the VisualBoy Advance emulator for recording/reviewing walkthroughs. Added functions of reducing/increasing speed, support for saves, etc.
There are two versions for viewing walkthroughs in the archive: VBA-rr-v23.6-svn480.LRC4-xp140 and vba-v24m-svn480.LRC4-xp140.
- Size: 3.8 MiB
- Downloads: 320
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VGB v6.0
A good Game Boy (Color) emulator for Windows.
- Date: November 7, 2021
- Size: 207 KiB
- Downloads: 1250
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VisualBoy Advance v1.7.2
A great Game Boy/ Color / Advance emulator for Windows. A lot of settings, all kinds of video filters, sound modes ... Support for joysticks, saving, skipping frames, setting program priority, creating screenshots - by the way, all Game Boy screenshots on the site are made with this emulator.
- Date: 24.05.2004
- Size: 598 KiB
- Downloads: 139742
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