aappleby/metroboy
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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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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? -
…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# -
…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# -
…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? -
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 -
Nice work. :D -Austin, author of Gateboy ( https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy )
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