Term Boy: A Game Boy emulator for the Linux console

Question

Term Boy is yet another Nintendo Game Boy emulator, with one difference:  It uses ANSI escape codes to draw each 'pixel' in the terminal.  It's a fork of gomeboycolor, a Game Boy emulator written in Go.  Currently sound is not supported and the controls are not customizable, but I hope to fix those problems in future releases.
Only ROMs for the original Game Boy will display properly, since the Linux console doesn't support enough colors for the Game Boy Color.  Your default console font must also be 8x16 pixels and support the Unicode left half block character(▌) for the screen to render correctly.
This is my first package, so any feedback is appreciated!
Available in the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/termboy/
See the readme on GitHub for the controls:
https://github.com/dobyrch/termboy-go
Last edited by dobyrch (2014-01-11 04:13:39)

Answer 1

I was thinking about doing the same thing with a computer back at home that's just sitting in the corner. My parents are currently throwing it out, which is quite a bummer. Still gonna do it though, but now I can think about using something much, much smaller to access the files on here. For controllers I was thinking about hacking one of my current SNES controllers into a usb connection.
The emulators would be snes9x, gameboyadvance, and maybe MAME. Not sure about GB/C or NES though.
For game selection I was thinking about writing a program or something.