rand1925/gamegirl

a gameboy emulater written by cpp

GameGirl

GameGirl is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator written in C++.

It was written as a project in the course "Object Oriented Programming (C++) " in 2019.

Build

Building the emulator requires SDL2 and cmake on Windows. (Note: CmakeList.txt needs 2 environment variables: SDL_PATH: path to sdl CMKE_MODULE_PATH: path to findSDL2.cmake ) For test, it has been tested on Windows 10 and Arch Linux. To complie the project on Windows (need MinGW environment):

MINGW64 $ cmake .

To complie the project on Linux:

$ g++ ./Catridges/* ./*.cpp ./*.h -o gamegirl.out -O3 --std=c++17 -march=corei7-avx -lSDL2 -lSDL2main

(Note:It uses the avx--Advanced Vector Extensions)

Test

The emulators is using the roms from Blargg's test ROMs and bgbTest.gb to test the hardware accurency.

Here are some screenshot of the test.

Play

Using terminal to boot, format: gamegirl path_to_gb_rom \[-c v] [-z v] \[-f v] \[-x v] \[-y v] \[-b] \[-S ]

code	function
path_to_gb_rom	rom file path
-z	zoomTime
-c	colorMode
-f	fps
-x	window display position x
-y	window display position y
-b	use boot (display the logo)
-S	disable sprites

Input

The key bindings are: Direction: ↑, ↓, ←, → Selection: X for B, Z for A, Enter for START , Backspace for SELECT.

Game Screensho

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