Lameboy - GB/GBC emulator for DS v0.4

[Mr_Biggs]

why hasnt this been added to the Emulators for DS list? cant wait for the sound version!

[Harshboy]

I can't believe that a decent GB/C Emulator wasn't released a long time ago. You'd think that a Gameboy Emulator would be one of the first emulators for a DS since it's the only generation of Gameboys not Compatible with the Hardware...

[DanTheManMS]

What about the Gameboy Micro? The DS isn't even a Gameboy to begin with, but whatever.

It actually was one of the first systems emulated, and you can see the DCemu page on DS_GBC for info, but it was slow as heck and fairly unusable.

The problem with emulators is that they require a good knowledge of both the host system and the system being emulated. Finding someone with this skill, who also has the time and patience to work on an emulator to get it up to fullspeed, is hard to do.

It would still be best if Dwedit manages to convert Goomba Color's sourcecode to GCC so it can be ported to the DS easily, but until then this is the best we've got.

Just a random tidbit: emulating the sound might be somewhat tricky. With Goomba Color, it just passed all commands directly to the GBC sound chip that's present within all iterations of the GBA, generating the sound using pre-existing hardware and barely even emulating it at all. However, this GBC sound chip is not accessible from DS mode, so the sound must be fully software emulated. It should prove to be an interesting progression if the author ever decides to tackle it.

[F2bnp]

Woah!!!The framerate is actually good!Hope sound version comes soon!Super Mario Land 2 here I come!

[lightningquickguy14]

Wait, what kind of files do I use? They aren't working...

[kiariki]

Wait, what kind of files do I use? They aren't working...

You download this emulator.
You DLDI patch it to your system.
You make a folder called "lameboy"
You add .gb or .gbc files to the folder you've just created.
Insert your card into your DS. Turn on the DS.
Select Lameboy.
Select a game.
Have fun and relive those old memories.

God... Playing Mario Land 2 made me remember those days when I was like... What? 6? 5? God knows... And by God... Mario Land, which I haven't played since it got lost... Ahhh...

I don't mind not having sound for the old games, since I could barely hear the sound anyways when I played on the old Gameboy. :P But some sound would be nice...

[acevampire]

On my MMD i dont have to make a folder called Lameboy, it actually doesn't matter what folder you put it in. Just make sure you DLDI patch it if you use MMD.