Hu-Boy (GB emulator for your PC-Engine)

[Raph4]

This is a program for NEC's PCE / TurboGrafx, etc. game hardware that emulates Nint*ndo's GameBoy system. Bear in mind that the PCE's CPU clock speed is not even twice that of the GameBoy, and that they both possess 8-bit CPUs (6502-like vs. Z80-like) with vastly different registers and instruction sets. So, yeah, it's a bit crazy to try to get a GB game running on the PCE in the first place, let alone hope for anything approaching actual speed.

Some Main Features:

• All CPU instructions emulated (no guarantees about accuracy!)
• No promises about speed. It's not fast.
• MBC1 cartridge mapper emulation, supporting cartridges <1 MByte in ROM / <192 KByte for CD-ROM version
• Basic sound emulation (frequency, volume sweep, wave channel and pulse/noise channels)
• DMG BG & sprite palette emulation, with separately adjustable palettes
• Background layer, scrolling, per-scanline scrolling emulated
• Window layer simulated but with some limitations
• GB sprites, both 8x8 and 8x16, tile-flipping.
• An options screen with plenty of controls to change speed/accuracy, enable/disable features
• Did I mention it was not very fast?

Requirements:
You'll need either a SuperGrafx, or the CD attachment for PC-Engine/TurboGrafx, due to RAM requirements.

The stock PC-Engine / Turbografx consoles have only 8 KB of main system RAM, whereas even the original B&W GameBoy had over 16 KB of RAM that needs to be stored and emulated somewhere. I've therefore made versions of Hu-Boy that use either CD-RAM from the PCE CD-ROM2 system, or the SuperGrafx's extra built-in RAM. So you can use a SuperGrafx plus ROM flashcart (recommended), or burn/emulate an ISO and run it from your PCE+CD-ROM2 system with Super System Card.


Website & Download

Hu-Boy PCE Gameboy Emulator Homepage

www.chrismcovell.com

 

[famicommander]

why

 

[Raph4]

why

Why not. Playing Mario on PC-Engine GT
I regret selling mine.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

why

Because it Can Be Done. You never had that sort of drive to do cool shit? Chris Covell is a cool chap.

Btw don't cream your pants yet people this emulator is slow and not something to actually play games on unfortunately.

 

[famicommander]

Because it Can Be Done. You never had that sort of drive to do cool shit? Chris Covell is a cool chap.

Btw don't cream your pants yet people this emulator is slow and not something to actually play games on unfortunately.

Your first sentence contradicts your second sentence.

If this can't actually play video games then it's not cool, it's pointless wankery.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

Your first sentence contradicts your second sentence.

If this can't actually play video games then it's not cool, it's pointless wankery.

There's no contradiction. Video games are pointless wankery for most people anyway.

 

[Niko]

Not going to lie, outside of just doing something for sake of "doing it", this is dumb as fuck.....

Imagine purposefully choosing to play gameboy games with a lack of accuracy in fucking 2023.

 

[Neodogg]

Why not. Playing Mario on PC-Engine GT
I regret selling mine.

It doesn’t have enuf RAM. Why got just get a GB?

 

[LoneSage]

whoo boy