Gameboy4iPhone Preview

Posted by Eric March on April 20, 2008 at 6:20 pm

I’ve had a chance to check out ZodTTD’s beta of his forthcoming Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator, and I have to say it’s mighty good. The standard ZodTTD interface is there with the usual assortment of options. The emulation itself is top notch, not only having a high level of compatibility, but offering up full-speed emulation — in fact, it might be a touch too fast, so Zod is looking into adding a frame limiter.

The video presented below offers up several Game Boy game demos: Castlevania Adventure, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Land (naturally), Bomberman, and Bubble Bobble. I had a couple of others I was going to add, but one was too blurry (tip: Make sure macro focus is selected), and the other got cut off because I was using a crappy slow card that can’t keep up with my camera’s capture capabilities. Nevertheless I think this is a decent cross-section of a few great oldies. Excuse my lame skillz, I’m still not entirely used to virtual buttons with no tactile feedback.

Without further ado, my mad video skills:

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There is no current release date, but since it’s in beta, expect it pretty soon.