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Everything you potentially wanted to know, maybe, about that GameBoy emulator I’ve been writing for the last couple years.

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A photo of a magnifying glass held in front of the scaled up Nintendo logo on a computer screen.

Wow. Has it been two years already? Oh well… Anyway!

So hey, you remember how the Nintendo logo would scroll down when you turned on a Game Boy — and how writing enough of an emulator to see it was kind of the point of most of this blog?

Writing an emulator: its all about the journey!

A Game Boy screen cover laying on top of the arrow keys on a red-lit computer keyboard.

TL;DR: I started writing a Game Boy emulator in June 2018 and since then, at least three distinct people have expressed mild but polite interest in the details. I hope to show how it’s done, in mildly-to-heavily technical terms. It’s going to take a while but I hope it turns out marginally informative.