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About Gearboy Color
Bring back the classic handheld gaming experience with the Gearboy Color for Ubuntu Touch! Play classic Gameboy and Gameboy Color games like Pokémon Red and Blue, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and Super Mario Land on your modern devices. Gearboy Color simulates the original hardware of the Gameboy and Gameboy Color for a authentic gaming experience. Download now and get ready to relive the glory days of handheld gaming!
Features:
- Highly accurate emulation
- Game Boy and Game Boy Color support
- Save states (Use the star button in the bottom left)
- Game Genie and GameShark cheat support (Swipe right before loading a ROM)
- Built in ROM manager
- Multiple color palettes for playing Game Boy games
- Maximum nostalgic value
- Multi platform, check out the upstream Gearboy project for other platform support: https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy
Note: When loading save states you may encounter audio glitches.
This work was originally ported by Ryan Pattison and is based on Ignacio Sanchez's Gearboy. This fork provides Xenial & Focal compatibility and much more.
Screenshots are from the open source (MIT) game "Untitled GB Game" by Chris Maltby ( https://chrismaltby.itch.io/untitled-gb-game ) and the open source (GPL3) game "µCity" by Antonio Niño Díaz ( https://github.com/AntonioND/ucity )
Recent Changes
v5.3.0
- Brought up to date with upsteam (brings bug fixes)
- Released for Focal
v5.3.0
- Brought up to date with upsteam (brings bug fixes)
- Released for Focal
v5.2.0
- Added new splash screen
- Improved external input handling
- A huge thank you to Kugi for all his hard work on Gearboy in recent releases!
v5.1.3 & v5.1.2
- Translation update, thank you translators!
v5.1.1
- Made it possible to move diagonally on the d-pad
- Fixed the game settings page's play button
v5.1.0
- Added auto loading save state support
- Improved visuals
v5.0.1
- Translation update, thank you translators!
v5.0.0
- Added haptic feedback
- Adjusted button locations
- Added new bottom edit settings toggles
- Added new pause menu
- Added new drawer for save/load states
- Added key mapping for non-touch inputs
- Added full screen support
- Added fast forward
Huge thank you to Kugi (@Javacookies) for the work on this release!
Permissions
- Content Exchange
- Audio
- Video
Community Built
This app has been released under the GNU GPL v3 license. It is developed in the open and you can review the source code.
Info
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Published Date
Apr 10, 2019
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Updated Date
Feb 6, 2023
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Current Version
5.3.0
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Total Downloads
16,444
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Latest Version Downloads
2,459
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Supported Architectures
armhf, amd64, arm64
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Translation Languages
ca, es, fr, nl
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Reviews
Joan CiberSheep
Reviewed Sep 18, 2025 for version 5.3.0
Works like a charm 💜
Dennis Kersten
Reviewed Jul 23, 2025 for version 5.3.0
App works! Sometimes the controls don't work but I don't care, I can play GB Roms and that's all I wanted :)
disposable
Reviewed Jul 11, 2025 for version 5.3.0
nothing works, another fail for ubutouch
scottbouch
Reviewed Jun 3, 2025 for version 5.3.0
Wow! Working brilliantly on OnePlus 5T! I had not played Tetris for many years!
AndusDEV
Reviewed May 13, 2025 for version 5.3.0
Works nice but there should be x1 speed multiplier
Rudra
Reviewed Mar 30, 2025 for version 5.3.0
Does not work. Tried multiple ROMS but same result. Checked the downloaded.gba files on an android device and found out that they were working properly. Would love to see Gear boy working properly again
Zero0som
Reviewed Dec 28, 2024 for version 5.3.0
Спасибо вам,одно из лучших приложений 👍
Paul Finch
Reviewed Jul 9, 2024 for version 5.3.0
Holy molly love this. Haven't played links awakening since i was a kid
MS3
Reviewed Jan 1, 2023 for version 5.2.0 (older version)
so i installed Ubuntu touch on my old phone and I was like OK but can it run dhilly game: It can run dhilly game
María Aboy
Reviewed Dec 26, 2022 for version 5.2.0 (older version)
Works really nicely