gbdev/awesome-gbdev

A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.

GitHub repository with 4,440 stars and 190 forks.

Topics: gameboy, gameboy-emulator, documentation, retrogaming, nintendo, dmg, gameboy-color-emulator, resources, tools, awesome-list

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