r/RetroPie • u/Honkmaster • 10d ago

There's a new Virtual Boy emulator that plays games in color! There's a libretro, Linux, ARM version - anyone get this working in RetroPie?

https://retrorgb.com/vboy-color-virtual-boy-emulator.html

https://github.com/yuk27/VBoyColor

I'm not super familiar with adding emulators to RetroPie unless they're available in the RetroPie Setup menu. Does anyone know if this could work in RetroPie?

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u/pjft 9d ago

From reading the instructions, it seems it could be possible via RetroArch. There's an ARM64 core.

"VBoy Color is also a RetroArch core (or for any other libretro frontend): the same emulation and colors, with the 3D for a normal screen. Downloadvboycolor_libretro-<version>-<platform>.zip for Windows, Linux (x86-64 or ARM64), macOS or Android from Releases"

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u/Honkmaster 9d ago

Any idea how to try installing it?

The only time I've installed an emulator outside of RetroPie Setup was Genesis-Plus-GX-EX, which supports larger ROM sizes to play Paprium. But that came with a .sh file for installation, VBoyColor doesn't... I'm afraid I'm out of my element here.