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# SameBoy
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SameBoy is an open source Gameboy (DMG) and Gameboy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C. It has a native Cocoa frontend for OS X, and an incomplete experimental SDL frontend for other operating systems. It also includes a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator.
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## Features
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Features common to both Cocoa and SDL versions:
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* Supports Gameboy (DMG) and Gameboy Color (CGB) emulation
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* Lets you choose the model you want to emulate regardless of ROM
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* Includes open source DMG and CGB boot ROMs:
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* Complete support for (and documentation of) *all* game-specific palettes in the CGB boot ROM, for accurate emulation of Gameboy games on a Gameboy Color
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* Supports manual palette selection with key combinations, with 4 additional new palettes (A + B + direction)
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* Supports palette selection in a CGB game, forcing it to run in 'paletted' DMG mode, if ROM allows doing so.
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* Support for games with a non-Nintendo logo in the header
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* No long animation in the DMG boot
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* Has a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator
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* Emulates [PCM_12 and PCM_34 registers](https://github.com/LIJI32/GBVisualizer)
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* Emulates LCD timing effects, supporting the Demotronic trick, [GBVideoPlayer](https://github.com/LIJI32/GBVideoPlayer) and other tech demos
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* Accurate instruction and memory timings
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* Real time clock emulation
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Features currently supported only with the Cocoa version:
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* Native Cocoa interface, with support for all system-wide features, such as drag-and-drop and smart titlebars
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* Retina display support, allowing a wider range of scaling factors without artifacts
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* High quality 96KHz audio
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* Battery save support
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* Save states
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* Optional frame blending
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* Several [scaling algorithms](SCALING.md) (Including exclusive algorithms like OmniScale and Anti-aliased Scale2x)
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## Compatibility
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While SameBoy passes many of [blargg's test ROMs](http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Test_ROMs#Blargg.27s_tests), some games fail to run correctly. SameBoy is still relatively early in its development and accuracy and compatibility will be improved.
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## Compilation
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SameBoy requires the following tools and libraries to build:
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* clang
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* make
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* Cocoa port: OS X SDK and Xcode command line tools
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* SDL port: SDL.framework (OS X) or libsdl (Other platforms)
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* [rgbds](https://github.com/bentley/rgbds/releases/), for boot ROM compilation
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SameBoy was compiled and tested on OS X and Ubuntu. |