Game Boy / Color Emulators for Windows

Nintendo Game Boy \ Game Boy Color emulator. Handy, fast, with good compatibility and ZIP support.

• emulation of the GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and Super Gameboy
• accurate emulation of the hardware, based on research with lots of test roms, useful for debugging/rom development
• powerful debugger
• graphics output: GDI, DirectDraw, Direct3D, OpenGL, null output
• graphics doubler: HQ2X, Scale2x, scanlines filter, blocky
• Accurate/high quality sound emulation, bandlimited synthesis
• accurate video emulation including "high color" graphics, correct sprite/background priorities, 10 sprites/line limit, and mid-scanline register changes.
• Joystick/Gamepad support, everything mappable to every button
• Auto delay/frameskip, emulation runs at 100% real speed and full 60 fps
• GameGenie and GameShark cheat, load/save cheats (auto and manual), "cheat searcher", easy creation of new cheat codes
• save/load state with quick (zsnes style, and mappable) keys.
• back and forward compatibility of sav files and save states so your saved progress is not lost. bgb can load all save files of previous versions.
• Load from ZIP and GZIP files
• support for optional border bitmap and pseudo and real fullscreen modes.
• TCP/IP game link support

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

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

Emulator byuu is a project from the developer of bsnes and higan emulators, which combines the friendly interface of the former and the multi-system (with emphasis on accuracy) of the latter. List of emulated platforms: NES, SNES, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, Game Boy (Color), Game Boy Advance, WonderSwan (Color), Pocket Challenge V2, Neo Geo Pocket (Color). Was merged back with higan evolving into the ares project.

Game Boy (Color) emulator for Windows. Formerly called gbpablog.

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 Windows. Supports video filters, saves, GUI (QT), etc.

GB/GBC emulator, has a built-in debugger, memory viewer and other not all needed features. There is a possibility of fullscreen, you can record the game in AVI!

A great open source emulator. Supports Zip archives, Super Game Boy games, video filters, and more.

Compact emulator with a minimal set of functions.

GB/GBC emulator. Very fast, with very good compatibility. Support for saves, joysticks. Run from the command line.

InfoGB is an open source Game Boy emulator for Windows.

Game Boy/ Game Boy Color emulator. Just a great emulator, low system requirements, a lot of settings (frame skipping, palette, sound, video, etc.), not bad speed and support ZIP.

• In SGB mode, up to 4 players can be supported
• Support of the game "Gameboy Camera" (without the camera functions)
• Per-game configuration such that each game can have its own custom palettes (GB only), key mapping, etc.
• Support Gameboy Printer.
• Support boot ROM for GB.
• Simulate boot ROM for GBC.
• Support an experimental graphics effect: shadow.

Game Boy emulator in Java for Windows.

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.
Attention: emulator runs only from command line. But you can use shell: Mednaffe or MedGui Reborn.
To fully work with the emulator, you should read the documentation. Also, do not forget about the F1 key.

Fast emulator with a lot of useful features such as save/loading, battery ram saving, two-player game via "cable" on one computer, Game Genie, etc.

Java-based multi-system emulator. Emulates:

• ColecoVision
• Game Boy
• Game Gear
• Master System
• Mega Drive
• NES
• PC Engine

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

A Game Boy / Color / Advance emulator based on VisualBoy Advance.

A version of the VisualBoy Advance emulator for recording/reviewing walkthroughs. Added functions of reducing/increasing speed, support for saves, etc. There are two versions for viewing walkthroughs in the archive: VBA-rr-v23.6-svn480.LRC4-xp140 and vba-v24m-svn480.LRC4-xp140.

A good Game Boy (Color) emulator for Windows.

A great Game Boy/ Color / Advance emulator for Windows. A lot of settings, all kinds of video filters, sound modes ... Support for joysticks, saving, skipping frames, setting program priority, creating screenshots - by the way, all Game Boy screenshots on the site are made with this emulator.