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About BGB
BGB plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy games on a PC with gamepad support, Vsync, low latency and a rewind key. Its hardware emulation is accurate enough that a ROM working in BGB will most likely work on real hardware.
A built-in debugger lets you inspect the emulation, create cheat codes and help with making or modifying ROMs, which makes it popular with homebrew developers. It ships in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and still runs on very old Windows PCs and under Wine.
Strengths
- High emulation accuracy based on test ROM research
- Built-in debugger for ROM development
- Rewind and low latency
- Runs on old Windows versions and under Wine
Limitations
- Windows only, with other systems relying on Wine
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- bircd
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Game Boy players and homebrew developers who need an accurate emulator and debugger
- Categories
- Emulators, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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