bmo

bmo

A Game Boy emulator written in Go.

Progress

• Cartridges (ROM only, MBC1, MBC3 with no timer)
• CPU (passes Blargg's CPU instruction test)

• Interrupt Controller
• Joypad
• PPU (background, window and sprites rendering, scrolling)

Requirements

• Go 1.9 or newer
• dep
• SDL2 (libsdl2-dev on Debian-based distributions)

Usage

• Copy the DMG bootrom to roms/bootrom.gb (or specify its path with the -bootrom flag)
• Compile and run the emulator:

$ dep ensure
$ go build
$ ./bmo -rom <path to the ROM file>

References

• Gameboy CPU (LR35902) instruction set
• Game Boy Programming Manual
• Pan Docs
• The Ultimate Game Boy Talk

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.