Recommended Emulators
Recommended emulators provide good compatibility, performance and stability. Emulators in this category are suitable for gaming.
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Currently, Red Dragon is by far one of the most usable Virtual Boy emulators available. It’s very strongly based on the source code of Reality Boy and has introduced a GUI as well as a much-needed Windows port of the emulator. Currently, the Windows version of Red Dragon can play about 20 titles fully with little or no errors. For now, Red Dragon is the best bet for anyone looking to re-live a few of the Virtual Boy classics.
v0.38 for Windows (9/21/2004)
v0.35 for DOS (4/9/2002)
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Reality Boy is the world’s first Virtual Boy emulator, written by David Tucker. Reality Boy is capable of running many commercial games playably and has just recently added sound support to it's features list. The Linux and DOS distributions of Reality Boy have been discontinued, but the author states they can still be compiled from the source code.
v0.84 for Windows (12/9/2008)
v0.84 Source (12/9/2008)
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Other Emulators
Emulators in this category are generally considered early in development or have not reached a level of compatibility, performance and stability that would be suitable for gaming. These emulators are considered works-in-progress.
Virtual-E
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Virtual-E is another Virtual Boy emulator which uses a few bits and pieces of the original Reality Boy source code and was written in C++ by Alberto Covarrubias of the Virtual-E project. Virtual-E sports a very unique GUI reminiscent of the Virtual Boy itself. The emulator also contains a first for any Virtual Boy emulator, preliminary sound emulation. Currently, 6 games out of the Virtual Boy library are playable, while 3 others are semi-playable and the rest usually won’t make it to the title screen. In our tests, we’ve also experienced a few serious stability issues. It would also appear that Virtual-E is another discontinued project.
v1.0 for Windows (6/14/1999)
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- 1GHz Single Core Processor
- On-Board or Entry-Level Dedicated Video
- 512MB of RAM
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