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This page serves as the Community wiki, providing some information about the gbdev community living in the Discord server, at IRC and generally around our socials.
Should I use C or ASM to develop for Game Boy?
C performance on Game Boy is way worse than ASM but it offers a lower entry-barrier. Read more here: https://gbdev.github.io/to_c_or_not_to_c.html
Where can I learn to code in ASM for Game Boy?
This will get you started: https://eldred.fr/gb-asm-tutorial/. Advanced topics are still work-in-progress.
What is the best emulator for gbdev?
We recomend BGB (https://bgb.bircd.org/) . It's closed source but includes a powerful debugger. Runs on Linux via Wine. SameBoy (https://sameboy.github.io/) is very accurate, open source and includes debugging features, too.
- Awesome list - Curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
- Homebrew Hub - Community-led attempt to collect, archive and save every unofficial game, homebrew, patch, hackrom for Game Boy produced by the community through decades of passionate work.
- GB Archive - Library of Game Boy related software, hardware and literature. Aimed to mirror and preserve old and fragmented contributions from the last three decades.
- ...GitHub Org
- Stay on the topic of the channel
- Be educated with everyone and don't insult/flame/whine
- Don't link/spam/advertise other Discord servers and don't post discord invite links without first talking with a mod, describing its relevancy.
This is our wonderful moderation team! Generally, you can use the #meta channel on Discord to discuss anything community related, but you can contact us privately too.
- DUO*
- Nitro2k01*
- ISSOtm
- Antonio Vivace
- PinoBatch
- Dovuro
- tobiasvl
Mods marked with * are OPs on the #gbdev IRC channel on EFNet, too.
We are not looking for new mods, at the moment.
There's a special Guru role on Discord, marked with the blue color. This serves to immediatly recognise honorable members of the community, having made a notorious and distinctive contribution. If you'd like to be nominated or would like to nominate someone, please get in touch privately, describing what you think is meaningful.
Here is the list (in no particular order) of people which have been granted the Guru status (followed by the nomination):
| Name | Nomination |
|---|---|
| binji | binjgb developer |
| DUO | Historical gbdev contributions |
| LIJI32 | SameBoy developer |
| Lord Nightmare | Historical gbdev contributions |
| eggboycolor | Historical gbdev contributions |
| PinoBatch | 144p Test Suite, Libbet and the Magic Floor, extensive NES work |
| Sanqui | Historical gbdev contributions |
| Tauwasser | Historical gbdev contributions and research |
| endrift | mGBA developer |
| gekkio | Game Boy Research, mooneye-gb, ... |
| byuu | higan developer |
| mattcurrie | mealybug-tearoom-tests and mgbdis developer |