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goboy
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Humpheh / goboy

goboy

Multi-platform Nintendo Game Boy Color emulator written in Go

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Multi-platform Nintendo Game Boy Color emulator written in Go

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-11-01 19:34:53 UTC to 2018-11-23 08:21:12 UTC.

0122018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 12018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 122018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 23

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 12018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 22018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 32018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 42018-11-04 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 52018-11-05 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 62018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 72018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 82018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 92018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 112018-11-11 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 122018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 132018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 142018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 152018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 172018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-18 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 192018-11-19 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 202018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 212018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 222018-11-22 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 232018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-24 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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There aren't actually too many differences between GBC and DMG emulation as most of the hardware was consistent between them. The main change is around the PPU and the memory, as the GBC added some internal memory banks which are used for tile attributes and colour palettes etc. The actual changes around the graphics rendering aren't very significant other than some conditionals for GBC mode - you can see them here where `isGBC` is used: https://github.com/Humpheh/goboy/blob/master/pkg/gb/ppu.go
In Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go
There are some fantastic resources out there which detail basically every part of the GameBoy from processor to graphics. For me the GB was a great entry point in learning about emulators as is is fairly simple compared with some other consoles. Even if you're not going to make an emulator some of them are still great reads - I've put a few resources I used on the GoBoy page: https://github.com/Humpheh/goboy#resources
In Goboy: Multi-Platform Nintendo Game Boy Color Emulator Written in Go

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