A Game Boy emulator for Playdate. PlayGB is based on Peanut-GB, a header-only C Gameboy emulator by deltabeard.
- Download the zip from the latest release.
- Copy the pdx through the online sideload or USB.
- Place the ROMs in
/Data/*.playgb/games/
. Filename must end with.gb
or.gbc
- To access Data folder, connect Playdate to a computer and press
LEFT
+MENU
+LOCK
in the homescreen.
- Use the crank to press Start or Select.
- To save a game you have to use the in-game save option. Game is automatically saved when changing ROMs or quitting the app. After a crash, a new
(recovery).sav
file is created. Save files are stored in/Data/*.playgb/saves/
- Audio is disabled by default. You can optionally enable it from the ROMs list screen
PlayGB uses a slightly modified version of Peanut-GB which supports partial screen update.