Nintendo Game Boy / Nintendo Game Boy Color /
SameBoy Active
A highly accurate Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator by Lior Halphon, with a native macOS interface, SDL and iOS versions and a powerful debugger.
Facts
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, iOS
- Install from
- App Store
- License
- Open source (MIT)
- Accuracy
- Cycle-exact
- System ROMs
- Open replacement included
- Mobile
- Full Free iOS app for iPhone and iPad with dedicated portrait and landscape layouts, controller support and Files integration.
- Models
- Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Super Game Boy
- Opens
.gb.gbc- Written in
- C
- First release
- 2016
- Authors
- Lior Halphon
- Last checked
- Oct 2026
Mobile
- HasOfficial app
- Does not haveRuns in a mobile browser
- HasTouch controls
- Unknown:On-screen keyboard
- Unknown:Native keyboard
- HasBluetooth gamepad
- HasPortrait layout
- HasLandscape layout
- HasInstallable
- HasWorks offline
Has it Doesn't have it Not known yet
Features
- HasSave states
- HasRewind
- HasFast-forward
- Not listed:Run-ahead
- Not listed:Online multiplayer
- HasCRT shaders
- Not listed:A/V recording
- HasCheats
- Not listed:Achievements
- Not listed:Themes
Input
- HasGamepad
- Not listed:Touch controls
- Not listed:Light gun
- Not listed:Mouse
- Not listed:Positional key mapping
- Not listed:Symbolic key mapping
- Not listed:On-screen keyboard
- Not listed:Native keyboard
For developers
- HasDebugger
- HasMemory viewer
- HasDisassembler
- Not listed:Profiler
- Not listed:Trace logger
- Not listed:Scripting
- Not listed:Command line
Emulated hardware
- Not listed:Hard disk
- Not listed:MIDI
- HasPrinter
- Not listed:Networking
- Not listed:Modem
- Not listed:RAM expansion
- Not listed:Accelerator cards
Features not listed may still exist. Edit this entry if something is missing or wrong.