Inspired Python: Let’s Write a Game Boy Emulator in Python

Let’s Write a Game Boy Emulator in Python

There’s a lot to be said for staid, old gaming platforms from the 1980s and 90s. Chief among them is nostalgia – if you’re old enough to remember them, that is – and a fondness for a time when both gaming and computer hardware were simpler and easier to understand.

But for those of you who don’t know, the Game Boy is an iconic, portable gaming device designed to play computer games using cartridges you slot into the back of the device. The original Game Boy had a monochrome display; an 8-bit Z80-style CPU with 4.194304 MHz; a whopping 8 KiB of working RAM and 8 KiB of video RAM; and 4 stereo sound channels. It also had a Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD) screen, a directional game pad and a couple of keys action keys. Popular games included Super Mario, Tetris and, of course, Pokémon.

And in this course I’m going to teach you how to write a Game Boy emulator in Python.

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