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A repository of gate-level simulators and tools for the original Game Boy.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2019-04-21 · latest 2026-08-07

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  1. I reverse engineered the Game Boy from pictures of the die - https://github.com/aappleby/metroboy - so yes, it's totally doable. It is also incredibly tedious and frustrating. Not sure if that gives me an advantage in this challenge, but I…
    comment by aappleby · 2026-08-07 · in Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
  2. …I also found a new one, VisualNES https://kaiokendev.github.io/nes/about There is also one for GB https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy
    comment by thrownawaysz · 2026-04-30 · in I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
  3. …I also found a new one, VisualNES https://kaiokendev.github.io/nes/about There is also one for GB https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy
    comment by thrownawaysz · 2026-04-30 · in I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
  4. …is https://github.com/aappleby but I don't see any obvious candidate for this code. Maybe this? https://github.com/aappleby/metroboy but I can't see why a gate-level emulator woudl need to render transparent items using painter's algorithm.
    comment by dekhn · 2023-12-06 · in When would you ever want bubblesort?
  5. Reminds me of GateBoy, which was posted a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28396927 , https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy GateBoy runs surprisingly fast for a gate-level simulation.
    comment by gary_0 · 2022-02-26 · in MetalNES: Transistor Level NES Simulation
  6. Nice work. :D -Austin, author of Gateboy ( https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy )
    comment by aappleby · 2021-11-14 · in Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
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    GateBoy – A gate-level simulation of the original Game Boy hardware
    story by aappleby · 2021-09-02 · 66 comments
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    MetroBoy – A playable, circuit-level simulation of an entire Game Boy
    story by Jerry2 · 2019-04-24 · 0 comments
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    MetroBoy – a playable, circuit-level simulation of an entire Game Boy
    story by aappleby · 2019-04-21 · 4 comments