Compatibility list for PalmBoy

WARNING:

To get the emulation as fast as possible nearly no checks are made and the memory protection had to be switched off. This leads to a potentially very dangerous program - every single byte of your Pilots databases and programs in RAM can be overwritten! Serious and heavy testing revealed no data losses, but it's a very good idea to hotsync your databases before trying the emulator with new games until you gain confidence in the combination of emulator and emulated game.


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Compatibility list:

Last update: 2001-10-27

A nice guy named "HJ" sent me some HTML's with his comments about the playability of emulated games. Informations about the method is provided in his "Playability testing" document. Look at the "datasheet" for an actual game by following the link on its name. If a game has no link, there's none; if you like to provide the information yourself, take the blank sheet, fill it out, and send it to me.

This list contains only ROMs already tried. If your favorite isn't there it just means that you should test it and send me your experiences! Please don't forget to include the version of PalmBoy and a short description of the game.

Free games Commercial games Other stuff "Playability testing"

Free games:

Name, sorted PalmBoy Version Status Description
Alpha Wing v.3.14159 Works A classical space shooter. Designed for CGB, therefore bad graphic.
Ant Hill v.3.14159 Works well Similar to Boulderdash. Collect the eggs without touching the bugs.
Ant Soldiers v.4.0beta1 Works slowly Free Ants!, a clone of the famous lemmings game.
Arkanoid Clone v.3.14159 Works A simple clone of Breakout/Arkanoid.
ASCII Wars v.3.14159 Works well ASCII characters attack!
Aster v.3.14159 Works Asteroids clone.
Ballgame v.3.14159 Empty screen Marble game, designed only for CGB.
BDash v.3.14159 Empty screen Boulder dash clone, designed only for CGB.
Breakout v.3.14159 Works Clone by Anders Granlund.
Chip the Chick v.3.14159 Works slowly Save your chicken!
Columns v.3.14159 Works great Clone, very cool.
Dan Laser v.3.14159 Works Fly your space craft through hostile areas...
Deep Scan v.3.14159 Works Fight the submarines, a classical.
Demon 2 v.3.14159 Works Funny role playing game, some graphic quirks.
Defender of the Crown v.3.14159 Stops Adventure.
Falldown v.3.14159 Works Try to keep the ball falling.
Gameboy Book Reader v.4.0beta1 Works slowly eBook application for the Gameboy.
GB Tic Tac v.3.14159 Works If you know how to play, you can't loose!
GB Lander v.3.14159 Works slowly Do you know OIDS? This is the clone...
Hangman v.3.14159 Works Guess the word in a minimum number of tries.
Hungry are the Dead v.3.14159 Works Adventure with zombies.
JetPak 0.08 v.3.14159 Works Build your spacecraft and fly away.
JetPak DX v.3.14159 Works Newer version of JetPak 0.08?
MarioBros v.3.14159 Works slowly J'n'R with Mario, kinda simple.
Maze v.3.14159 Works Find your way to the other end!
Mines v.3.14159 Works Sweep these mines away...
Mousetrap v.3.14159 Works A clone of pacman with a mouse hero, hunted by cats.
Noah's Arkaid v.3.14159 Works well Variant of the memory game. Some graphic flaws because of CGB design.
PacMan v.3.14159 Works Another clone.
PDA v.3.14159 Works A PDA running on an emulator running on a PDA, hm...
POKE Mission 97 v.3.14159 Works Throw balls into the funnel.
Pong v.3.14159 Works Grandfather (or -mother?) of all video games!
Puzzle v.3.14159 Works 15 tiles have to be reordered. Simple graphics.
PuzzleX v.3.14159 Works great! Try to bring the cute characters onto their home fields. The problem is that they only stop at obstacles.
RPG v.3.14159 Works Unfinished "role playing game" - it's just walking in the dungeon.
Shutdown v.2.0 Works Try to switch off all lamps. It's harder than it sounds...
SokoBan v.3.14159 Works great! Port of the box shifting game by Emil Brink.
SQRXZ v.3.14159 Works Jump'n'Run; guide your little bug home, very cute!
Starfight v.3.14159 Works A space shooter.
Starfisher v.3.14159 Works Collect the goldfishes, but avoid the others!
They came from outer space v.3.14159 Works The classical Invaders.
Tetrablox 2000 v.3.14159 Works Another tetris clone.
Wishbringer v.3.0 Works (With NO$CASH's newer interpreter) Text adventure.
Wonderworm v.3.14159 Too much RAM Cartridge claims too much RAM...
Zork1 v.2.0 Works (With NO$CASH's interpreter of 1993) Text adventure.
Zork1-3 v.3.0 Work (With NO$CASH's newer interpreter) Text adventures.

Other cartridges (demos, tests):

Name, sorted PalmBoy Version Status Description
Banks v.3.14159 Works Test program for ROM and RAM banking. Has to be patched to work correctly.
Clown1 v.3.14159 Works It's said to be a converted Amiga demo: a rotating head of a clown.
Dawn v.3.14159 Works almost Graphic demo, stops at a certain screen effect.
Distortion v.3.14159 Works Demo for raster interrupts.
Film2 v.3.14159 Works An animation showing a rotating checkered cube.
GBAPA2 v.3.14159 Works Demo program to show that all pixels are individually addressable.
KirbyXXL v.3.14159 Works What a huge Kirby!
LandScape v.3.14159 Works slowly Another fine demo for testing raster interrupts.
Merry v.3.14159 Works Xmas greetings from Anders Granlund. Tests for priorities.
RAM_FN v.3.14159 Works Test program with subroutines copied into RAM.
Space v.3.14159 Works Everything's scrolling, nice test program.
Zoomar V3 v.3.14159 Works Realtime zoomer with Mario (he's waving on simple cartridge emulation.)

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