LEGIT Gameboy COLOR Emulator

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#1

A fellow scripter of mine has ported something absolutely amazing to ROBLOX!
Introducing, the amazing (but slow) Gameboy COLOR emulator, featuring the full version of Pokemon Red!

Do I need to say much more? [size=1]I hope not qq[/size]

[UPDATE]
I would like to see this try to become a thing (since Anti doesn’t feel like open sourcing), so I would like to know if anyone would be interested in joining up to make another port, and make it even faster. If you are, leave a post in this thread. :slight_smile:

For now, I will post the Love2D version of this, along with any other documentation I can find.
[CURRENT LINKS]
I Love Gameboy (Direct Download)
I Love Gameboy (Forum Topic)

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#2

I am lost for words with this… This is amazing.

#3

Wow… That… Is amazing…

As far as I saw everything was literally made of frames nothing was even remotely made of ImageLabels. That’s pretty crazy.

#4

That is unbelievably cool.

Definitely could use some optimization though, running about 3 FPS.

#5

This is amazing

#6

This is insane. The sounds kind of hurt my ear, though.

#7

Pretty cool, I was actually getting 30 Frames until my connection went south and I got dc’d.

#8

I wonder if the overuse of frames is a source of lag. I’d be interested to see this running on a pallet of Parts as opposed to GUI.

#9

not color. Js.

#10

10/10 ign

#11

This is beyond awesome.

#12

It shouldn’t be in theory, however the constant creation/deletion can be. I had the same problem with a mario-esque game I was creating and found recycling frames helped a lot.
If he were to recycle frames versus create/delete (and only create/delete when needed) that might resolve a lot of lag.

#13

i don’t think he’s creating and deleting frames, mew903. just changing color

#14

At first I thought the issue was due to the creation and deletion of the GUIs at first, but anyone that is capable of making that emulator is smart enough to know about efficiency so I highly doubt this is the case. The colors are most likely being changed.

With that in mind, my game framerate drops severely when I move. This indicates that unupdated pixels don’t cost as much to process. This is either his code or ROBLOX’s code that does no work when you attempt to set a value equal to its current value.

Really neat!

#15

[quote] At first I thought the issue was due to the creation and deletion of the GUIs at first, but anyone that is capable of making that emulator is smart enough to know about efficiency so I highly doubt this is the case. The colors are most likely being changed.

With that in mind, my game framerate drops severely when I move. This indicates that unupdated pixels don’t cost as much to process. This is either his code or ROBLOX’s code that does no work when you attempt to set a value equal to its current value.

Really neat! [/quote]

Can confirm it’s his optimization code. A few updates back there was no real optimization, it was still laggy when you didn’t move. Yay for optimization \o/

#16

Well the frames shouldn’t be a problem at all then, it’s probably the way he’s reading the ROM memory

#17

How on earth do you port a ROM to Roblox Lua? :shocked:

#18

as a string, and read off of it

#19

So this guy basically wrote a Gameboy emulator in Lua?

#20

So this guy basically wrote a Gameboy emulator in Lua?[/quote]

Yep. Luckily it isn’t as difficult as you’d think. There’s plenty of sourcecode out there from other gameboy emulators (I’d say the most popular system to emulate) and shouldn’t be very difficult to port. The question is: will ROBLOX allow a Pokemon Red ROM to be redistributed like this on their site? Probably/hopefully.