Made by CrankBoy Dev Team
A full-speed GB emulator, plus 4 specially included titles. Add your own library; download homebrew, romhacks, and cover art in-app. For certain games we offer custom support to take advantage of the Playdate's features -- widescreen, crank input, in-game maps, and more.
Features: multiple save slots; 44.1 kHz audio; various dither patterns; numerous per-game settings for power-users (and sensible defaults for everyone else); softpatching; overclocking; and more. CGB not presently supported.
Add games to /Shared/Emulation/gb/games/ or use CrankBoy Manager.
Included Titles:
- Life's Too Short GB by Pixel Ghost, a GB spinoff of the popular Playdate game of the same name
- Dashosaur DX by Sleeping Panda Games, a precision platformer about dashing and dodging
- GBBS95 by Beatscribe, a nostalgic narrative adventure
- Lo-Fi GB by Beatscribe, a music album (but for your GB (but really for your PD))
Credits:
- Code: Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), stonerl; some additional contributors
- Based on: SameBoy, PlayGB (RPDev), Peanut-GB (DeltaBeard), Greg's GB Emulator (Greg Tourville)
- Graphics Assets: tinyevilwizard, monseki, rae
- QA: Ophelia Bee
- Testing: Exguardi, Boozook, Captain_Barge
- Libraries: miniz, mini_gzip, lz4, stb
- Special Thanks: SonoSooS, StiNKz, FReDs72, Dustin Mierau, GB Dev Wiki, Megan Sullivan, PD Squad, Data Crystal, JStFFP, gbdev.io
- Included Titles: Life's Too Short GB, Dashosaur DX, GBBBS95, Lo-Fi GB. If you would like to see your own GB homebrew title featured in CrankBoy, please contact the developers.
Additional credits listed in-app.
Generative AI: Lead developer carefully hand-coded and optimized this emulator without any GenAI whatsoever. You can read about the advanced techniques used. However, other contributors were not required to disclose use of GenAI code.