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+# SameBoy
+
+SameBoy is an open source Gameboy (DMG) and Gameboy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C. It has a native Cocoa frontend for OS X, and an incomplete experimental SDL frontend for other operating systems. It also includes a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator.
+
+## Features
+Features common to both Cocoa and SDL versions:
+ * Supports Gameboy (DMG) and Gameboy Color (CGB) emulation
+ * Lets you choose the model you want to emulate regardless of ROM
+ * Includes open source DMG and CGB boot ROMs:
+   * Complete support for (and documentation of) *all* game-specific palettes in the CGB boot ROM, for accurate emulation of Gameboy games on a Gameboy Color
+   * Supports manual palette selection with key combinations, with 4 additional new palettes (A + B + direction)
+   * Supports palette selection in a CGB game, forcing it to run in 'paletted' DMG mode, if ROM allows doing so.
+   * Support for games with a non-Nintendo logo in the header
+   * No long animation in the DMG boot
+ * Has a text-based debugger with an expression evaluator
+ * Emulates [PCM_12 and PCM_34 registers](https://github.com/LIJI32/GBVisualizer)
+ * Emulates LCD timing effects, supporting the Demotronic trick, [GBVideoPlayer](https://github.com/LIJI32/GBVideoPlayer) and other tech demos
+ * Accurate instruction and memory timings
+ * Real time clock emulation
+
+Features currently supported only with the Cocoa version:
+ * Native Cocoa interface, with support for all system-wide features, such as drag-and-drop and smart titlebars
+ * Retina display support, allowing a wider range of scaling factors without artifacts
+ * High quality 96KHz audio
+ * Battery save support
+ * Save states
+ * Optional frame blending
+
+## Compatibility
+While SameBoy passes many of [blargg's test ROMs](http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Test_ROMs#Blargg.27s_tests), some games fail to run correctly. SameBoy is still relatively early in its development and accuracy and compatibility will be improved.
+
+## Compilation
+SameBoy requires the following tools and libraries to build:
+ * clang
+ * make
+ * Cocoa port: OS X SDK and Xcode command line tools
+ * SDL port: SDL.framework (OS X) or libsdl (Other platforms)
+ * [rgbds](https://github.com/bentley/rgbds/releases/), for boot ROM compilation
+
+SameBoy was compiled and tested on OS X and Ubuntu.
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