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SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C.
$ winget install --id LIJI32.SameBoy --exact --version 1.0.3Run in Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. Prompts for any agreements.
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SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C. It has a native Cocoa frontend for macOS, an SDL frontend for other operating systems, and a libretro core. It also includes a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator.
Features common to both Cocoa and SDL versions:
- Supports Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulation
- Lets you choose the model you want to emulate regardless of ROM
- High quality 96KHz audio
- Battery save support
- Save states
- Advanced text-based debugger with an expression evaluator, disassembler, conditional breakpoints, conditional watchpoints, backtracing and other features
- Extremely high accuracy
- Emulates PCM_12 and PCM_34 registers
- T-cycle accurate emulation of LCD timing effects, supporting the Demotronic trick, Prehistorik Man, GBVideoPlayer and other tech demos
- Real time clock emulation
- Retina/High DPI display support, allowing a wider range of scaling factors without artifacts
- Optional frame blending (Requires OpenGL 3.2 or later)
- Several scaling algorithms (Including exclusive algorithms like OmniScale and Anti-aliased Scale2x; Requires OpenGL 3.2 or later or Metal)
| Architecture | Type | Scope | Install | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x64 | ZIP archive | - | Direct |
Copy a command tailored to that specific architecture, type, and scope - useful when winget would otherwise pick a different default.
No known CVEs for SameBoy.
Coverage is best-effort and depends on a winget package mapping to an NVD CPE entry. Absence here is not a guarantee of safety.
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