Xerpi is at it again and after releasing FTPVita and CHIP-8 emulator VITA-8, he brings us first native GB/CGB/SGB emulator for PS Vita.

Just a few hours ago we informed you about SMOKE’s native NES emulator NES4Vita, and now xerpi(FTPVita, VITA-8) released his GameBoy/GameBoy Color/Super Game Boy emulator called RealBoy Vita. RealBoy Vita is a port of a “complete, fast, yet accurate” emulator RealBoy, originally created by serginho89 for Linux/Unix.

Finally got the Realboy (GB/GB Color/Super GB) emulator working! pic.twitter.com/8mapFclyF3 — Sergi Granell (@xerpi) July 11, 2015

At the moment, RealBoy Vita runs GameBoy, GameBoy Color games, but GameBoy Color games are currently not playable in color (so it’s like normal GameBoy), because there’s a bug that needs to be fixed and Super Game Boy. RealBoyVita runs with out sound, all bugs are fixed. Some roms work, some don’t, you’ll have to try it yourself. I’ve experienced occasional crashes when I was changing games. (see “Additional info” below).

Super Game Boy games aren’t working yet.

How to use it:

– using FTPVita, transfer roms to cache0:/VitaDefilerClient/Documents/ (you can even create another subfolders in here, like “GameBoy Roms” or “GameBoy Color”)

– drop realboy_fixup.elf on run_homebrew.bat, a menu should load

– navigate to the rom you want to play and press X/Start

– go back using Circle

– in the game, press Start to Pause and Unpause the game

Additional info:

– press L + triangle to change games (you will be returned to the menu)

– saves are stored in cache0:/VitaDefilerClient/Documents/realboy/saves

– compatible roms in the menu are written in green, and other files (such as uvloader.log) can’t be launched (to prevent crashes)

Download RealBoy Vita (this is regularly updated by xerpi)

Realboy-vita with file scrolling support (for those with TONS of roms). https://www.dropbox.com/s/9hr1r8in9oveqff/realboy%28FS_Scroll%29.zip?dl=0 …

GitHub repo

I know there are a lot of people who want GameBoy Advance emulator. I have good news for you:

@Dessel575 @endrift is already doing the mGBA emu 😀 — Sergi Granell (@xerpi) July 11, 2015

That’s all about RealBoy Vita for now, we will keep you updated.