GiiBiiAdvance

What GiiBiiAdvance is

GiiBiiAdvance is a free, open-source desktop emulator for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, available for Linux and Windows. It also emulates the Game Boy Camera and can use a webcam for camera input when webcam support is included. The maker describes compatibility as fairly accurate for most GB and GBC games, and reasonable for most GBA games, while noting that the project is not intended as a game-playing emulator and pointing users toward alternatives for stronger game support. The main window contains what is needed to play, while the debugger uses additional windows and can be disabled on machines without a window manager. Lua scripting can be enabled when Lua 5.2 or later is detected during the build. Linux builds depend on CMake, SDL2, libpng, and zlib; webcam support also requires OpenCV 4. The v0.3.0 release offers two Windows downloads, one with webcam support and a smaller one without. That release does not include a Linux build, so Linux users need to build from the README instructions. The project is licensed under GPL v2.