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Lior Halphon Interview: SameBoy and the Pursuit of Game Boy Accuracy

Lior Halphon interview cover with a purple Game Boy Color and SameBoy screenshots.

Pinball Deluxe kept crashing in SameBoy. Lior Halphon checked the timing, simplified the game’s behavior, and tried the same experiments on a real Game Boy. The handheld carried on playing. The emulator did not. The answer, as Lior recounts it, was an interrupt behavior documented by fellow researcher Gekkio. With the game’s timing already so tight, one extra cycle could be enough to bring it down. The real hardware in that story… Read more