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Gearboy
Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Super Game Boy emulator, debugger and embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.
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Gearboy is a Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator written in C++ that also includes a debugger and an embedded MCP server. It runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, Raspberry Pi and as a RetroArch/libretro core, and ships a devcontainer for development.
You want Game Boy emulation plus debugging and MCP-based control in one cross-platform tool under GPL-3.0.
Use it to
- Emulate Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy software
- Debug Game Boy programs with the built-in debugger
- Expose emulator control to AI agents via the MCP server
- Run as a libretro core inside RetroArch
- Build or contribute using the provided devcontainer
For Emulation users, homebrew developers, and agent-tooling developers
- Role
- mcp-server
- Language
- C++
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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- 164
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- Last push
- 2026-09-16
- Latest release
- gearboy-2.0 · 2014-11-10
topicsgameboyemulatordebuggermcp-serverretroarchc++