RustBoyAdvance-NG
Nintendo GameBoy Advance ™ emulator and debugger, written in rust.
WebAssembly Demo: https://michelhe.github.io/rustboyadvance-ng/
Project Structure
core/
- Main emulator cratebindings/
- Bindings to other languages. Currently only java binidings through JNI.platform/
- Constains executables & application built withrustboyadvance-core
platform/rustbodyadvance-wasm
- Web emulator powered by WebAssemblyplatform/rustbodyadvance-sdl2
- Desktop application built with sdl2platform/rustbodyadvance-minifb
- Desktop application built with minifb, not maintained.platform/android
- A PoC Android application.
Progress
Emulation Todo:
- CGB audio (4 wave generator channels)
Build and usage (Desktop Application)
To get started, you need to get a stable rust toolchain.
Linux build dependencies
Install SDL2 dependencies
sudo apt-get -y install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev
Windows build dependencies
SDL2 runtime binaries are included in this repository, no extra setup needed.
Build & Usage
You need to obtain a gba bios binary. An open source GBA bios is also available and supported.
Place the bios file in the repository root and name it gba_bios.bin
(or alternatively use the -b
command line option)
Build and run in release mode (performance is terrible in the dev
profile)
$ cargo run --release -p rustboyadvance-sdl2 -- path/to/rom
You can also drag&drop rom files or any zip files containing .gba
files inside into the emulator window and a new rom will be loaded.
Key bindings
Currently the key bindings are not configureable.
GBA key bindings:
Keyboard | GBA |
---|---|
Up | Up |
Down | Down |
Left | Right |
Right | Right |
Z | B Button |
X | A Button |
Return | Start |
Backspace | Select |
A | L |
S | R |
Special key bindings
Key | Function |
---|---|
Space (hold) | Disable 60fps cap |
F1 | Custom debugger (requires --features debugger) |
F2 | Spawn gdbserver (experimetnal, requires --features gdb) |
F5 | Save snapshot file |
F9 | Load snapshot file |
Android Application
The android project is placed inside platform/android
. To build it, open it with Android Studio.
You also need to set up rust to build android targets with NDK.
TODO - instructions
More Screenshots
Links and attribution
- ARM7TDMI Technical Reference Manual Technical Reference Manuals are fun.
- GBATEK A single webpage written by no$gba developer Martin Korth. This page has pretty much everything. Seriously, it's the best.
- TONC A comprehensive GBA dev guide that I used a-lot in order to understand the GBA system. Comes with neat demo roms that really helped me during development and debugging.
- NanoboyAdvance A GameBoy Advance emulator written in C++17 by a nice person called fleroviux. I've used this for debugging.
- Eggvance gba-suite Incredible test suite for the arm7tdmi interpreter that I'm using, written by Julian Smolka.