./emulators/gearboy, Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.4.0nb10, Package name: gearboy-3.4.0nb10, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Gearboy is a cross-platform Game Boy / GameBoy Color emulator written in C++.

## Features

- Accurate CPU emulation, passes cpu_instrs.gb from blargg's tests.
- Accurate instruction and memory timing, passes instr_timing.gb and
mem_timing.gb from blargg's tests.
- Supported cartridges: ROM, ROM + RAM, MBC1, MBC2, MBC3 + RTC, MBC5, HuC-1
and MBC1M (multicart).
- Accurate LCD controller emulation with correct timings and priorities
including mid-scanline effects.
- Game Boy Color support.
- LCD screen ghosting effect as seen in the original Game Boy.
- LCD dot matrix effect.
- Sound emulation using SDL Audio and Gb_Snd_Emu library.
- Save battery powered RAM cartridges to file.
- Save states.
- Compressed rom support (ZIP).
- Game Genie and GameShark cheat support.
- Full debugger with disassembler, breakpoints, debug symbols, memory editor,
IO inspector and and VRAM viewer including tiles, sprites, backgrounds and
palettes.


Required to run:
[sysutils/desktop-file-utils] [graphics/MesaLib] [graphics/glew] [devel/SDL2]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/xcb-proto] [x11/fixesproto4] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

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Master sites:

• https://github.com/drhelius/ (Download)

Filesize: 19530.771 KB

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Version history: (Expand)

• (2025-10-24) Package has been reborn
• (2025-10-24) Package deleted from pkgsrc
• (2025-10-23) Updated to version: gearboy-3.4.0nb10
• (2025-07-15) Package has been reborn
• (2025-07-15) Package deleted from pkgsrc
• (2025-02-12) Updated to version: gearboy-3.4.0nb9

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CVS history: (Expand)

2025-10-23 22:40:24 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2999)

Log message: *: recursive bump for pcre2 Running an old binary against the new pcre doesn't work: /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0: version PCRE2_10.47 required by \ /usr/pkg/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 not defined

2025-02-12 07:45:45 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (850)

Log message: *: Recursive revbump from audio/flac-1.5.0

2024-04-06 10:07:18 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1489)

Log message: * recursive bump for libxkbcommon 1.7.0 Marc Baudoin reported problems with using old binary packages with the new libkxbcommon, so force everything to 1.7.0

2024-01-30 15:22:43 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (672)

Log message: *: Recursive revbump from audio/pulseaudio-17.0

2023-08-02 21:27:32 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (16)

Log message: *: Instead of using BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM to force a "gnu" language variant when a package is using GNU extensions without setting -std=gnuXX, use FORCE_(C|CXX)_STD.

2023-05-06 21:09:54 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (687)

Log message: *: Recursive revbump from audio/libopus 1.4

2022-09-11 14:52:13 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (670)

Log message: *: bump PKGREVISION for flac shlib bump

2022-08-11 07:09:36 by David H. Gutteridge | Files touched by this commit (999)

Log message: Bump all dependent packages of wayland (belatedly) The package changed with the addition of its libepoll-shim dependency. Otherwise, we can get: ERROR: libepoll-shim>=0.0.20210418 is not installed; can't buildlink files.

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