GBCbag 2 is available now

Hi lovely GameBoy and GameBoy Color developer community,

as of today there is GBCbag 2, a tool that allows you to easily distribute your own GameBoy (Color) game as a Windows, macOS and Linux application to players for whom the use of emulator software is not very feasible.

GBCbag 2 doesn't hide its roots: first and foremost, it's a direct relative of NESbag 2, which does the same thing, but for custom NES games.

Both together are based on the wonderful work of Sour and his Mesen emulator system.

GBCbag 2 is open source software under the GPL 3 licence and can be used, modified and redistributed under this licence.

I provide ready-made versions for Windows (at least Windows 10/11, 64bit) that you can download. Then just add your own game as a ROM file and off you go.

About macOS: I can also provide a finished macOS version, but you will have to sign it with an Apple developer account before you can pass it on. As I don't have the resources for an Apple developer account, I can't sign the macOS versions myself.

Please contact us via Discord, if you need help using it. As this is the first version, it is quite possible that I have not included things that are relevant in practice.

Many thanks to all developers in the open source community, the GBdev and GBCdev community and have fun to all players.

Chris

Some links:

• GBCbag itch.io page: https://eastpixel.itch.io/gbcbag
• GBCbag website: https://www.eastpixel.de/en/gbcbag/
  
• Our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/NUXuNfyWe2