Wasmboy
Game Boy / Game Boy Color Emulator Library, written for WebAssembly using AssemblyScript. Demos built with Preact and Svelte.
Overview
Wasmboy is a gameboy emulator library written in Web Assembly using AssemblyScript. It allows users to emulate Gameboy and Gameboy Color games in a browser or Node environment. The library supports features such as graphics output to a HTML5 canvas, audio output through the Web Audio API, in-game saves and save states, and configurable options for performance optimization. Wasmboy also includes a debugger with a value table, tile data visualizer, and background map with scroll indicators. Although the project is still under development and may have some bugs, most games are playable.
Features
- Emulates the Gameboy / Gameboy Color
- Outputs graphics to a scalable / responsive HTML5 canvas, and audio through the Web Audio API
- Support for in-game saves and save states
- Configurable options to increase performance for low-end devices
- Importable into other projects as a dependency
- Built with Web Assembly
- Uses Web Workers for parallelized rendering
- Keyboard and gamepad input support using responsive gamepad
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