| SameBoy is a user friendly GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator for macOS.
SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of powerful debugging features, making it ideal for both casual players and developers.
In addition to accuracy and developer capabilities, SameBoy has all the features one would expect from an emulator – from save states to scaling filters. An experimental SDL version is available to Windows and Unix-like systems.
CORE EMULATION FEATURES
- Supports GameBoy (DMG) and GameBoy Color (CGB) emulation
- Lets you choose the model you want to emulate regardless of ROM
- High quality 96KHz audio
- Battery save support
- Save states
- Includes open source DMG and CGB boot ROMs:
- Complete support for (and documentation of) all game-specific palettes in the CGB boot ROM, for accurate emulation of Gameboy games on a Gameboy Color
- Supports manual palette selection with key combinations, with 4 additional new palettes (A + B + direction)
- Supports palette selection in a CGB game, forcing it to run in ‘paletted’ DMG mode, if ROM allows doing so
- Support for games with a non-Nintendo logo in the header
- No long animation in the DMG boot
- Real time clock emulation
- GameBoy Camera Emulation
- GameBoy Printer Emulation
- Turbo mode
ACCURACY
USER INTERFACE
These features are currently exclusive to the macOS Cocoa port
- Native Cocoa interface, with support for all system-wide features, such as drag-and-drop and smart titlebars
- Retina display support, allowing a wider range of scaling factors without artifacts
- Several scaling algorithms (Including exclusive algorithms such as OmniScale)
- The OmniScale algorithms let you play games in 1080p, 4K and 5K resolutions!
- Quick Look integration; in-game screenshots appear in the Finder icons of GameBoy ROMs
- Use the Zoom button to resize to the next integer ratio
- Customizable controls
- Fullscreen support, optionally keeping aspect ratio
DEBUGGING
- Advanced text-based debugger: (Learn more)
- Traditional step/next/continue/finish flow control
- Expression evaluator with assignment support, register and memory access, and symbol support
- Disassembler with symbol support
- Multiple conditional breakpoints
- Multiple conditional watchpoints
- Call stack tracing
- Tick counting
- Cartridge and MBC information
- Memory viewer and editor
- Video RAM viewer
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