Selling an emulator on Cydia seems to be not possible, well… PayPal would have something to say…
Trying to sell it by other means is a bit difficult and clumsy…
What else is left? Relesaing it for free!
Yeah, Gearboy is now live on Cydia (again) and you can get it for FREE.
Give it some love and send me your comments to: http://twitter.com/drhelius
After several months of hard work my Game Boy Color emulator Gearboy can be considered as finished.
It has sound, full emulation of the most usual memory bank controllers, save files, disassembler, frame mixing and can be played on many platforms including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Raspberry Pi.
The compatibility is pretty high. It can run almost all Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. Most of them run flawlessly.
If you are interested you can grab the full source code and binaries from here: https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy
Some days ago I had the happy idea of selling the iOS port on Cydia. It was a good idea indeed.
This attracted a lot of people on Twitter and the news of a new Game Boy emulator running on iPhone 5 got viral. Quite a lot of people were asking me about the emulator, its features and when it was going to be released.
Gearboy eventually went live on Cydia and was selling pretty fast when suddenly, only a few hours later, I got an email from Saurik telling me he was having some issues with PayPal not allowing payments for the emulator. So he decieded to refund all customers and pull the emulator out of Cydia.
This was sad 🙁
Anyway, I learnt a lot by writing Gearboy and it was quite funny. In the end, my real interest is just to learn how consoles do work.
It’s been a long time since I last tried to write a Gameboy emulator… 6 years methinks 🙂
That time I was struggling with my emulator written in C# and finally abandoned it.
And for the sake of completeness I just wanted to say that I’m now finishing it!
Some weeks ago I decided to give it another try, this time in C++ in order to run it on Windows, Linux, Mac and iOS…
Well, this is the result, it needs more work and lacks sound, but is compatible whith most roms.
You can see all the progress and source code in my github repository: https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy
We just finished Puzzle Star HD, our latest game at Geardome, and it’s now ready for download from the App Store!
We took the iPhone edition and improved it with high resolution graphics and some new music and sounds.
Now it’s also fully integrated with Game Center, and well… it’s really fun and challenging to play 🙂
For only $0.99 / €0.79 / £0.69 it’s a real bargain 😛
So give it a try!
I decided to open source my two Chip-8 emulators for J2ME and iOS in GitHub.
The code is quick and dirty but fully functional and the emulation part is quite good. All the games I could find for Chip-8 and Super Chip run fine.
In fact, the iOS Chip-8 emulator was published as a paid application on the App Store during more than a year, before Apple kindly told me to remove it from the store due to some infringements of the terms (no emulators please :-()
So here it’s the repository for the J2ME edition: https://github.com/ignasan/J2ME-Chip-8-Emulator
And this is the iOS port: https://github.com/ignasan/iPhone-Chip-8-Emulator
