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OhBoy is a Game-Boy/Game-Boy Color Emulator based on gnuboy 1.0.3. This is beta software, user feedback & feature requests would be greatly appreciated.

Name:	ohboy1.0.0beta1.zip
Date:	21/12/2009
Size:	140.2 KB
Version:	1.0.0-beta 1
Author:	UBYTE
Website:	https://www.clockworkbytes.com
Downloads:	3,541
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GPH WIZ

Connection	Download Time
56k Modem	25.5 secs
128k ISDN	10.8 secs
256k Cable/DSL	5.2 secs
512k Cable/DSL	2.7 secs
1mbit Link	1.3 secs

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26 Comments

MetaGearWiz:

I have to say I'm very impressed! After testing several games I can say that it is a very good start! Much better image quality than Lemonboy, but I would like games to make full use of the screen by filling it up. Speed is very nice, as is user interface. Thank you!

ubyte:

1x and a fullscreen scaler will make the next release.

NEIL_L:

Is there anyway this will work with zipped roms? Excellent job though :)

ubyte:

For some reason I thought gnuboy supported zipped roms. It seems not. Added to the to-do list.

Eclipse:

ubyte you rule :D with a fullscreen scaler this emu is going to kick asses all around

DarkAvenger:

A great emulator! Outruns LemonBoy in performance and sound quality. Recommended features: - fullscreen scaling - faster scrolling in the browsing view (scrolling through a greater number of files takes an eternity if you can only do so one by one...) I recommend using the L and R buttons as in LemonBoy or even better an increased scrolling speed the longer you hold the up/down button. - when pressing up while the cursor is on the first item in a list, it should jump to the end and vice versa. - while in the menue, the display should turn off after a minute. This would be a security gain, as an image can burn in the WIZ display, as it happened to a friend of mine. Keep up the great work!

acrid:

What a surprise! This emulator is really great. Thank you very much!

clownzilla:

This emulator is MUCH better than Lemonboy. I think I found a bug though. It seems that I can't create 2 save states with some games. It will create the second save state but after I turn off the system it erases the second save state but keeps the first. Regardless, keep up the good work on the great emulation of a classic!

dogeymon:

Why are people complaining about fullscreen??? This emulator PRACTICALLY IS FULLSCREEN! There's like a millimeter of black bar top and bottom. I think we're getting too picky. I'm totally fine with it. Sound is really low. I turned it up full blast and it still sounds quiet. BUT AMAZING EMULATOR!!! And it internally saved my game automatically! YES! I might be ready to chuck Lemonboy out the window (metaphorically) The resolution is better too. And I love the interface. Very stylishly black, and white, simple and beautiful. Volume bar very responsive, and big and white, hard to miss. GREAT! Improve the sound and the framerate a bit and it's PERFECT!!

ZeroCorpse:

Works much better than Lemonboy (No offense to Lemonboy's devs, either. Good work there... This is just better.) I did run into a couple ROMs that had no sound, but as this is beta I suspect that will change... Or I had bad ROMs.

ZeroCorpse:

Quick follow-up: The sound not working was because I tried to use Gmenu2X's volume-control feature. It apparently doesn't work with this emulator. Otherwise, it launches fine and works fine. I'm especially impressed with how the filter makes it look so much like a real GBC.

ZeroCorpse:

Oh, wait- One more comment: Like others, I noticed that the volume is very low, even when cranked to full. Any way to boost that in later versions?

ubyte:

I'll look into sound. Currently I'm using a software mixer to adjust volume. I'll look into how Gmenu2x handles volume control or at least scale it up to 200%. I like the 150% aspect ratios but I have since found an efficient way to do fullscreen scaling with scale2x filtering and/or pixel averaging which should work fast enough.

Eclipse:

uhm, I'm having problems with savestates.. it worked only once but now it just refuse to save

dogeymon:

Small problem that is actually a big one. I have a REALLY long list of roms. Zelda is at the very bottom of the list. In Lemonboy, I can just push UP and it goes from the top of the list to the bottom. Yours, I have to hold down DOWN until we get aLLLLLL the way to the bottom of the list.

dogeymon:

Also, in options, there's no RESET ROM feature. Just "Back to Game", "Load ROM", and the save states stuff. That's a little vexxing when if I want to reset the rom I have to select "Load ROM", scroll aLLLLLL the way to the bottom of the list, and re-select the ROM.

ubyte:

Reset Rom and Scrolling issues duley noted and will be addressed soon. Can anyone who are having trouble with save states not saving please email or PM me as to how I can reproduce the bug.

dogeymon:

I haven't had any trouble with states yet.

Nixot:

Excellent! This is by far the superior game boy emulator. It runs every game I have tried smoothly and perfectly. Well done! Suggestions for an update - could we have unscaled mode to make all the pixels perfect rather than a bit blurry? And also, could you make the keys redefinable? I would very much like to use X for A and A for B.

Darkn00b1971:

I like this piece of software. All games I've tried work perfectly. I can't wait for the next release to see what improvements you make. Thanks for all the work you've put into this.

KermEd:

Thank you!

Doombear:

Great little emulator; it doesn't have the bright yellow menus like Lemonboy (another good emulator). I'm also requesting faster scrolling through files. Until then, I've sorted my roms into alphabetical folders to improve navigation. Could a future release also have support for Super Gameboy type frames/borders?

NOIZ:

Great emulator. I like the way you do fullscreen, both pixelized and more smooth. But i miss a frame like LemonBoy around the game screen. Would be nice.

zanven:

Great emulator. The screen scaling is definitely better than Lemonboy. Not having scroll wrapping is annoying though(pressing up at top to go to bottom and vice versa)

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