I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

It took me around 4 weeks to build the initial emulation code for the DMG Game Boy. Since then I've been working from time to time on improving the structure of the emulator and the Web interface. You can take a look at the code here https://github.com/joamag/boytacean

Re: I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

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Post by joamag » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 11:45 AM UTC

GitHub repo here https://github.com/joamag/boytacean

Re: I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

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Post by ineedausername » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 11:52 AM UTC

joamag wrote: post #6

GitHub repo here https://github.com/joamag/boytacean

Gonna dig this. Cool. Why Rust btw?

Re: I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

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Post by joamag » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

ineedausername wrote: post #7

joamag wrote: post #6

GitHub repo here https://github.com/joamag/boytacean

Gonna dig this. Cool. Why Rust btw?

Mostly because:

1- Elegant programming language

2- It's fast, like native fast :)

3- Memory safety features

4- Web Assembly (WASM) target

Re: I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

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Post by banimurit » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 12:02 PM UTC

Nice! Any advice for someone wanting to start developing an emulator?

Re: I've made a Game Boy emulator using Rust, React and WebAssembly

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Post by ineedausername » Thu, Jun 22, 2023, 10:15 AM UTC

joamag wrote: post #8

ineedausername wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gonna dig this. Cool. Why Rust btw?

Mostly because: 1- Elegant programming language 2- It's fast, like native fast :) 3- Memory safety features 4- Web Assembly (WASM) target

Most emus i found are in C. Writing it in Rust is a good way to learn the lang too i guess, it's become quite a popular lang lately, unexpectedly for me.