While it’s by no means playable at this point (unless your favorite hobby is watching sloths tend to a patch of growing grass), the Android Market has now seen it’s first video game emulator: AndroidBoy. As you may have guessed from the tail-end of the name, it’s a Game Boy emulator, supporting games from both the original Game Boy and 1998’s Game Boy Color.
The interface needs some remodeling, and the key mapping is going to need some work as well – but the first emulator on any given platform is always an important landmark, and things can only get better. As the legality of emulators is somewhat dubious, some questioned whether or not such an item would be allowed in Google’s Android Market. AndroidBoy’s success in making it to the market is a great sign of things to come.
I wonder when the Apple App Store will get an emulator? Oh wait, that’s not going to happen.
Doesn’t work yet but glad its around!
androidcommunity pretty much rewrote this post and didnt source you guys. They called it the “1998 game Boy color”, referred to it as a landmark immediately before pointing out the legal bit, etc.
Androidcommunity is shit, if you didn’t already know ;)
Great, all right, ok but how I am supposed to install this emulator on my G1 phone? Anyone help is appreciated.
thanks a million lets keep the good times rolling with apps like this
Why Square Enix and Apple do not team up for a Final Fantasy release on iPhone is beyond me.