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meboy

Gameboy / GAmeboy Color emulator for Java MIDP 2.0

License

Meboy is distributed under GPLv2 license LEGAL: This product is not affiliated with, nor authorized, endorsed or licensed in any way by Nintendo Corporation, its affiliates or subsidiaries.

Credits

  • Neil Millstone millstone - JavaBoy, the original java based GameBoy emulator behind MeBoy
  • Björn Carlin arktos - Creator of the original MeBoy for J2ME

MeBoy Change Log

version 2.2: 1 Feb 2009

  • Improved speed of writes to graphics memory
  • Improved screen redraw syncing, especially for Advanced Graphics mode
  • Improved speed of doubled sprites (8x16 pixel) by drawing one large image instead of two small
  • Improved speed of decoding images in Advanced Graphics mode
  • Tweaked the sprite drawing loop to be slightly faster and better reflect the order sprites should be drawn, especially in Gameboy Color games
  • Simple Graphics mode now crops images that have transparent borders
  • Simple Graphics detects solid images, and creates Images without alpha channel
  • Tweaked decoding of images when scaling the screen to 75%
  • Fixed flicker when the LCD screen was turned off
  • Fixed bug when decoding Gameboy Color palettes (Pokemon trading card game starts now)
  • Fixed HDMA bug when interrupts are disabled (Donkey Kong Country starts now)
  • Fixed speed-switch bug where read-only bits could be written to (Conker's Pocket Tales starts now)
  • Tweaked handling of cart-RAM (hopefully improving compatibility, but it's hard to tell)
  • Emulation is now paused when setting keys

version 2.1: 6 Dec 2008

  • Fixed bug where canceling a Bluetooth transmission would not completely stop the operation, causing errors when retrying
  • Fixed graphics bug where sprites in some games (R-Type, Kirby's Dream Land 2...) were missing in regular graphics mode
  • Fixed bug that caused the real-time clock to not update
  • Fixed sound bug where the volumes of notes were not updated correctly
  • Fixed hiding of Bluetooth menu item for phones lacking JSR 82 support
  • Added new MeBoy icon, in several sizes
  • MeBoyBuilder: Added option for user to choose MeBoy icon size, or a custom icon

version 2.0: 23 Nov 2008

  • Added sound support
  • Added support for sending cart-RAM and suspended games via Bluetooth
  • Added "Advanced graphics" mode with slow but (almost) pixel-perfect emulation
  • Added icon
  • Added "Pause" overlay when paused
  • Improved drawing compatibility ("locked" graphics should be more rare now)
  • Improved interrupt timing emulation
  • Improved instruction timing emulation
  • Improved error messages
  • Dropped backwards compatibility for 1.1/1.2-era savegames
  • Reordered menu items to put most frequently used items first
  • Completely redesigned MeBoyBuilder UI:
    • Added support for renaming/removing savegames via Bluetooth
    • Added support for sending/receiving savegames via Bluettoth
    • Added "select location" dialog for the MeBoy.jar file
    • Added support for renaming the .jar file (and thus the application)
    • Improved error messages

version 1.6: 3 Mar 2008

  • Fixed "Scale to fit" bug for very large screens
  • Fixed bug causing some games to crash after hours of gameplay (Pokemon games should run butter now)
  • Fixed HDMA transfer status (Lemmings works now)
  • Spanish translation by Pendor (www.pendor.com.ar)

version 1.5: 10 Sept 2007

  • Added "Scale to fit" for phones with large screens
  • Added preference for starting games in full screen mode
  • Added preference for disabling Gameboy Color support
  • Optimized drawing code, some games (like the early Pokemon games) run faster
  • Fixed bug where GBC games would show incorrect colors after resuming a suspended game
  • Fixed several minor timing bugs
  • Improed memory deallocation code, some phones should no longer get "out-of-memory" messages (Fix by Alberto Simon)

version 1.4: 22 Jun 2007

  • Added "Shrink to fit" for phones with small screens
  • Fixed potential stack handling bug for GBC games
  • Fixed several register initialization bugs
  • Fixed several GBC palette reading, writing and initialization bugs
  • Improved performance for GB games by using separate GB and GBC classes
  • Improved performance when an entire ROM does not fit in memory
  • Slightly improved performance when initializing images (still readlly slow though)

version 1.3.1: 29 May 2007

  • Fixed cartridge mapping bug, improves game compatibility (e.g. Catwoman)
  • Fixed sound status register bug, improves game compatibility (e.g. Legend of Zelda - Oracle of Ages)
  • MeBoyBuilder: added option for transferring saved games from version 1.1/1.2

version 1.3: 24 May 2007

  • Added support for Gameboy Color games
  • Added support for multiple saved (suspended) games at once
  • Added support for partial loading of very large ROM files (for phones with limited RAM)
  • Added support for realtime clock (used by Pokemon Gold etc)
  • In addition to frameskip, number of frames per second is displayed
  • Fixed minor keyboard handling bugs, Japanese Pokemon games should work better now
  • Fixed overflow bug that could occur after 2^32 instructions
  • Fixed minor windowing bug, Dragonball Z 2 should work better now
  • ROM files are split into smaller files, which reduces RAM requirement
  • MeBoyBuilder: Now supports zipped ROM files (one ROM per zip file)
  • MeBoyBuilder: Now tries to verify that the selected files are valid Gameboy carts
  • MeBoyBuilder: Can now (optionally) automatically check for updates

version 1.2: 4 Mar 2007

  • Added support for rotating the screen (with a slight performance penalty)
  • Added speed throttling in the unlikely event that MeBoy exceeds 60 fps
  • Added support for rarely used "LCD control operation" for turning off the LCD
  • Fixed flag handling bug for increment/decrement instructions, other minor flag handling bugs
  • Fixed timing of screen update interrupts, to better match JavaBoy and hopefully Gameboy. Grabbing items while spinning in Metroid 2 no longer causes freeze
  • Fixed minor keyboard handling bug
  • Fixed palette bug (some sprites had incorrect colors, such as Bugs Bunny and some enemies in Super Mario Land 2)
  • Fixed version bug (1.1 identifies itself as 1.0)
  • MeBoyBuilder: Now has a simple UI with some instructions and information
  • MeBoyBuilder: Non-ascii characters in filenames now handled
  • MeBoyBuilder: Warning when selecting large ROM files and Gameboy Color games
  • MeBoyBuilder: MeBoy.jad file is produced, since certain phones seem to require it

version 1.1: 2 Nov 2005

  • fixed spriteenabled (Balloon Kid sort of works now)
  • fixed battery RAM
  • fixed "suspend" and "resume"
  • added full screen mode
  • added "unload cart"
  • added the source for MeBoyBuilder
  • added settings for frameskip
  • some small bug fixes and performance improvements

version 1.0: 22 Jul 2005

  • initial release

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