| GEST is a Gameboy/Gameboy Color/SGB emulator for Windows.
Facts:
- open source
- written in C/C++
- Graphics use DirectDraw
- sound uses FMOD
- most of graphics, sound and SGB emulation code is based on VisualBoyAdvance
Features:
- emulates the Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy
- very compatible, only a few games have serious problems, see compatibility list
- very accurate graphics and sound emulation based on VisualBoyAdvance source
- video size select
- you can choose from four color palettes in Game Boy mode
- battery backed RAM saved to a file
- Game Boy Camera emulation
- Gameboy link emulation + imperfect IR link emulation
- Autofire buttons
- Save states
- Video layers can be disabled
- Sound channels can be disabled
- GBA stretch simulation (for lols)
- GBC default palettes when playing non GBC games can be changed during gameplay
- Game Genie cheat codes (up to 10 can be used at the same time)
- zipped roms supported
- SGB multiplayer (2-4 players)
- customizable controls and one joystick can be used
- supports memory bank controllers: MBC1, MBC2, MBC3, MBC5, MBC7, HuC1, HuC3, TAMA5 (imperfect) and GB Camera
- MBC3, HuC3 and TAMA5(imperfect/broken?) RTC emulation
- Rockman 8 and collection/multi-carts emulation
- Barcode Boy emulation (imperfect)
Missing Features:
- Game Boy Printer emulation
- Four player adapter
- GBC built-in palettes for some GB games e.g. Tennis, Zelda
- Furu Changer emulation (Zok Zok Heroes (J))
- Barcode Reader emulation (Bardigun (J))
- Mobile Adapter GB emulation (Mobile Trainer (J))
- some SGB features:
- sound/music (Animaniacs,Pocahontas,etc.)
- SNES sprites
- SNES CPU (Space Invaders '94 arcade mode)
- borders that have a non-square GB window (Mario's Picross, Desert Strike, Animaniacs,Super Snaky)
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