Playboy is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for the Panic Playdate written in Rust

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Overview

Playboy

Playboy is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator for the Panic Playdate!

Building

Playdate isn't exactly a Tier 1 platform for Rust :)

As a result, the build is a little bit trickier than usual, but you can install Playboy by following these steps.

Prerequisites

You'll need

  • The Playdate SDK (last tested with v1.9.1)
  • Rustup
  • Nightly Rust (runrustup default nightly)
  • Crank, the actual tool for compiling Rust for Playdate

Running

git clone https://github.com/adamsoutar/playboy
cd playboy
git submodule init
git submodule update

Next, you'll need to place a Gameboy game in the playboy folder as rom.gb. The Playboy repo doesn't contain any copyrighted Nintendo software or any built-in ROMs.

cp ~/MyPersonalRomCollection/Tetris.gb ./rom.gb

Now we can finally build & run the code:

crank run --release

This will launch the Playdate Simulator and boot right in to your favourite Gameboy game!

Controls

Left, Right, Up, Down, A and B are exactly what you'd expect.

Start and Select are interesting, because the Playdate doesn't have enough buttons!

Turn the crank clockwise to press Start, and counter-clockwise to press Select.

The core

Playboy is powered by my Rust Gameboy Emulator project gbrs.

If you fancy a challenge, I'd love to see people try and port it to more systems!

For the platform-specific side of things, it uses the awesome crankstart bindings by Rob Tsuk.

By Adam Soutar
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Comments
  • simulator not loading playboy on windows?!

    simulator not loading playboy on windows?!

    its a great idea i hope it can work. got error like setupdigetdevicerestrypropertyfialed 122 required size 560. playboy I added the me.overflo.playboy folder but got error please help thanks!!

    opened by zartan9 0
  • Every Game Crashing Playdate

    Every Game Crashing Playdate

    Hello Adam,

    First and foremost, thank you for your time and contributions towards this!

    I just got my Playdate and promptly got this loaded onto it, however upon launching any ROM, it will result in an immediate crash with the Playdate staing "Sorry, your Playdate has crashed. Press (A) to restart."

    I am on the latest build of Playboy and can provide any other details (or crash logs if those exist somewhere).

    Update: This appears in the "Console" when my Playdate is connected to the Simulator.

    time and date set
Loading game ""
Extra chips: None
ROM size: 32KB
RAM size: 0KB
Unsupported memory write at 0xff61 (value: 0xff)
Unsupported memory write at 0xff61 (value: 0xff)
Unsupported memory write at 0xff71 (value: 0x71)
    opened by corsair 1
  • Testing on real devices

    Testing on real devices

    Hello!

    Now that Playdate group 1 is actually shipping, we can hopefully get some Playboy testing on real devices.

    My Playdate pre-order is in group 2, so if you get yours first and you run my emulator on it, please let me know how it goes! 😄

    I am not certain that a real device is fast enough to run it without more optimisation, so I'm very curious what the real performance is like.

    help wanted 
    opened by adamsoutar 9
Releases(v0.5)

  • v0.5(Apr 30, 2022)

  • v0.4(Apr 24, 2022)

    'sup?

    Playboy v0.4 includes a ROM picker! You can now place multiple games on your Playdate and choose between them, as well as swap games without quitting the emulator.

    It also includes further optimisations for better emulation speed on real Playdate hardware 🚀

    image

    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)
    Playboy.pdx.zip(110.26 KB)

  • v0.3(Apr 23, 2022)

  • v0.2(Apr 23, 2022)

    Hey there!

    Now that people have real, physical Playdates in their hands, we've had a chance to run the emulator on some real devices.

    This version of Playboy includes optimisations to try and get the emulation running faster on real Playdate hardware 🚀

    Of course, it still runs great in the Simulator if you just want to play it there 🙂

    Enjoy!

    Source code(tar.gz)
    Source code(zip)
    Playboy.pdx.zip(94.04 KB)

  • v0.1(Apr 22, 2022)

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