Game Boy / Color Emulators for Linux

Mednafen is a great multiplatform emulator that emulates the following platforms:

• Atari Lynx [lynx]
• GameBoy (Color) [gb]
• GameBoy Advance [gba]
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color) [ngp]
• Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom [nes]
• PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx [pce]
• PC-FX [pcfx]
• Sega Game Gear [gg]
• Sega Genesis/MegaDrive [md]
• Sega Master System [sms]
• Sony PlayStation [psx]
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom [snes]
• Virtual Boy [vb]
• WonderSwan [wswan]

The quality of emulation is very good.
There is support for graphic filters.
The mednafen package is present in many distributions.
The emulator runs only from the command line, but you can try the front-end of mednaffe and mfe.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about F1 key.
What to do if there is no sound.

Mesen is a multi-system emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports NES, SNES, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, PC Engine, SMS/Game Gear and WonderSwan (Color) games. Features of the emulator include:

• High accuracy;
• High compatibility (support 220 mappers for NES);
• Savestates, audio and video recording, etc;
• Video filters;
• Stereo effects;

Game Boy (Color/ Advance) emulator for Linux. It is based on VBA and claims to be the most functional among such projects, because it combines the most interesting features of other VBA-based projects. GTK2-based GUI.

A great emulator for Linux, with a decent amount of useful features. Save states, play all cartridge formats, as well as GameLink, Pocket Printer, Rumble Pack, Super GameBoy, and more.

ares is an open-source multi-system emulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It has a native graphical interface on each system. It has a native GUI on each system. It is a descendant of higan, byuu and bsnes and is focused on emulation accuracy. It emulates the following systems:

• Arcade
• Atari 2600 (Experimental)
• WonderSwan (Color)
• Pocket Challenge V2
• ColecoVision
• MSX / MSX2 (Experimental)
• PC-Engine / TurboGrafx / SuperGrafx
• PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
• My Vision
• NES / Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Game Boy (Color)
• SNES / Super Famicom
• Satellaview
• Nintendo 64 / 64DD
• SuFami Turbo
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Gear / Master System / Mark III / SG-1000
• Mega Drive / Genesis / Sega CD / Mega CD / 32X
• ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
• Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
• Neo Geo Pocket (Color)
• PlayStation (Experimental)

Note: cue+mp3 format is not supported for Sega CD, You can convert to cue+wav using the CueMp3ToWave.

BizHawk is an open-source multi-system emulator. It uses emulator cores from the Libretro project (RetroArch). It supports emulation of NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, PlayStation, and many other systems (around 30 systems). Developed with support from the TASVideos community, BizHawk is designed for creating Tool-Assisted Speedruns (TAS) — speedrunning game completions — as well as for casual gaming.

Supported platforms

• Arcade machines
• Apple II
• Atari 2600
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• ColecoVision
• Commodore 64
• Commodore Amiga
• Fairchild Channel F
• Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Mattel Intellivision
• NEC PC Engine (AKA TurboGrafx-16), including SuperGrafx and PCE CD
• Neo Geo Pocket
• Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo 64
• Nintendo DS/DSi
• Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, Famicom Disk System
• Odyssey 2
• Sega Genesis, Sega-CD, 32x
• Sega Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000
• Sega Saturn
• Sony PlayStation
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Famicom
• PCFX
• TI-83 graphing calculator
• Uzebox
• Vectrex
• Virtual Boy
• Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color
• ZX Spectrum

Game Boy (Color) emulator for Linux. Used to be called gbpablog. GUI on wxwidgets.

Open source multi-system emulator for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Notable for being developed in Pascal (Delphi/Lazarus). It supports emulation of ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, NES, GameBoy (Color), ColecoVision, Chip 8, Sega Master System and various arcade machines (see readme.txt).

Game Boy / Color emulator for Linux. Supports video filters, saves, GUI (Qt), etc.

Game Boy emulator for Linux.

• Features
  • hq4x upscaling via OpenGL 2.0 programmable shaders.
  • MBC1 emulation
  • Sound
• Known Issues
  • The emulator crashes on some games due to incorrect z80 emulation.
  • I've only compiled the source on Linux, using an nVidia video card. No guarantees the code will work with ATI drivers, or other OS's.

Game Boy / Color emulator for Linux.

Game Boy (Color) emulator for Linux. Present in repositories of many distributions.

A multiplatform emulator with a very confusing history. Originally called bsnes, it was renamed higan and became multiplatform, as higan is not a game-friendly emulator, Near first spun off the bsnes core project into a separate emulator with a more user-friendly interface and a much faster multi-threaded PPU renderer. Then the byuu project was spun off to build on the success of bsnes and offer an easy to use emulator for all emulator kernels, but after Near left the project, the community continues to develop a new project ares - which combines higan, byuu and bsnes. higan has a rather unusual interface and all that would be fine, but the requirement to import ROMs (think making copies) of any ROMs you intend to run in it is extremely inconvenient. So we advise you to look in the direction of ares.
The latest versions supports emulation: Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Super Famicom, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2.

One of the best Game Boy emulators for Linux. Excellent game compatibility, frame skipping, internet play, GameGenie and GameShark, etc.

A low-level GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Game Boy Advance emulator. The main focus is on good user interaction, through a good combination of accuracy, performance, features and usability

Multisystem emulator for Linux and Windows. Emulates:

• SG-1000
• Famicom / NES
• Mark III / Master System
• PC Engine & PC Engine CD-ROM2 / Turbo Grafx 16 & Turbo Grafx CD
• Mega Drive & Mega CD / Genesis & Sega CD
• Super Famicom / SNES
• Neo Geo
• Neo Geo CD
• Game Boy & Game Boy Color
• Game Gear
• Neo Geo Pocket & Neo Geo Pocket Color
• Wonder Swan & Wonder Swan Color

This archive includes all versions of the emulator, utilities and bios. Left as a museum piece, use on modern systems is not recommended.

Game Boy emulator for Linux.