gbdev

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Game Boy (Color) development community. Development toolchains, reverse engineering, research, documentation and digital preservation efforts.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/gbdev

Name: gbdev
Location: VRAM
Kind: organization
Followers: 252
Following: 0
Total stars: 6266
Repositories count: 31
Created at: 2022-11-02T19:07:22.566Z
Updated at: 2024-10-29T20:08:09.215Z
Last synced at: 2024-10-29T20:08:09.215Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

Welcome to the home of the Game Boy development community!
Donating to gbdev is a great way to support the community and push the projects we maintain forward. We mostly use the money to:

organize events (such as the gbcompo21) and give prizes
fund maintainers and contributors to our repositories
donate back to some of the packages we use
pay servers and domains.

To learn more, all the expenses and incomes are transparently tracked on our OpenCollective (GitHub sponsorships are transferred there once a month).
Our main commitments consist in:

Gatheting quality content,
Digital preservation,
Mantaining, overhauling, correcting and distributing technical documentation,
Spreading and promoting on socials the contents produced by community members,
Community management
Maintaining development toolkits

Everything we work on is released under open source licenses:

RGBDS - The assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy & Game Boy Color
GB ASM Tutorial - Game Boy assembly programming tutorial
Awesome Game Boy Development - A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
Pan Docs - New home of the infamous (25 years old!) Pan Docs historical document: the single, most comprehensive Game Boy technical reference
Archiving and mantaining historical copies of old documents and contributions to the scene
Mirroring and preserving lost content
Homebrew Hub - A digital archive of homebrew games for the Game Boy and the Game Boy Advance. Everything is playable natively in the browser through webassembly builds of accurate emulators (binjgb and mgba). Provides community submission, tagging and rating features. Hosts and serves ROMs and screenshots for each entry.