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New comment by chrismaltby in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

chrismaltby — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:26:14 +0000

Oh hey, I made GB Studio, really cool to see it being used for this :) I've got some nice features in progress for the next version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8UKwV1gJAI

Show HN: GBS Music – web based, open source Game Boy music editor/tracker

chrismaltby — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:07:33 +0000

Hi HN, I've been working on an open-source, Electron (sorry) app for creating Game Boy games with no-code for a few years now. Recently I've been making some improvements to the inbuilt music editor/tracker and have got it running in the browser as a PWA.

https://www.gbstudio.dev/music

https://music.gbstudio.dev/

It runs entirely client-side (no backend), using the File System Access API where available, and works offline.

The file format is that same as in https://superdisk.github.io/hUGETracker/ so you can take any files made with this and edit them with hUGETracker instead.

And then you can drop these into a GB Studio project to make a quick GameBoy ROM too.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851536

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New comment by chrismaltby in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

chrismaltby — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:08:57 +0000

This is awesome. I only made it to stage 5 but love the mix of genres

New comment by chrismaltby in "Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware"

chrismaltby — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:27:14 +0000

Very nice! I've been building a drag & drop layer on top of GBDK [1] called GB Studio [2] for making Game Boy games for a few years now. I'm starting to think about how it could support other platforms eventually so this is definitely a project I'll keep an eye on.

[1] https://gbdk.org/

[2] https://www.gbstudio.dev/

New comment by chrismaltby in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

chrismaltby — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:57:13 +0000

I’ll definitely have a look and see if there’s any advantages. Currently using binjgb in GB Studio and been pretty happy with it https://github.com/binji/binjgb

New comment by chrismaltby in "NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games"

chrismaltby — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:06:57 +0000

Nice to see GB Studio get a mention, I’m still working away at it after many years! Definitely going to be checking out NESFab to see what I can learn from it.

There’s also been a fork recently called BB Studio adapting it to make NES games:

https://github.com/michel-iwaniec/bb-studio

New comment by chrismaltby in "Frasier Fantasy"

chrismaltby — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:33:55 +0000

As the creator of GB Studio and a fan of Final Fantasy and Frasier (though can’t bring myself to check out that new season!) this is pretty awesome!

New comment by chrismaltby in "GB Studio: Drag and drop retro game creator for GameBoy"

chrismaltby — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:18:18 +0000

Thanks, one of the things I’ve always tried to do (at work, before I started on GB Studio) is make difficult things seem easy and accessible. Though I’d have also told you this was probably impossible before starting too!

I just built it up slowly, making small tools to help me make sense of what was going on while learning GBDK, before I knew it pretty much had something I could package up. I’ve had a lot of help along the way though, untoxa’s [0] engine rewrite, and the work pau-tomas [1] did on the music editor have been especially helpful to the project.

Been a bit absent from the community recently, not had the time, but hoping to get back on it again soon!

I’m always amazed at how many awesome games people keep making though, it makes me really happy as this the first of many failed side projects that I pushed on through to completion.

[0] https://github.com/untoxa

[1] https://github.com/pau-tomas

New comment by chrismaltby in "McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game"

chrismaltby — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:24:26 +0000

As the creator of GB Studio, thanks, really appreciate that! And thanks to binjgb for the excellent emulator.

Really cool to see GB Studio being used for this.

New comment by chrismaltby in "Power consumption of Game Boy flash cartridges"

chrismaltby — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:06:42 +0000

If anyone is interested in making their own Game Boy game, I've been working on an open source game maker [0] that adds a UI around GBDK. I'm working on an updated replacement game engine [1] at the moment too that adds, among other things, support for flash cartridge saving (allows you to reflash cheap Pokémon carts), parallax backgrounds, large sprites and a stack based scripting language.

[0] https://www.gbstudio.dev/

[1] https://github.com/chrismaltby/gbvm

New comment by chrismaltby in "How I write Elm applications"

chrismaltby — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:14:59 +0000

I really appreciate you taking the time to code review the Redux store! This is some really great advice that I'll definitely be implementing. The project has definitely been a big learning experience :)

Very much looking forward to these new RTK APIs. Thanks again for your help.

New comment by chrismaltby in "How I write Elm applications"

chrismaltby — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:58:28 +0000

I can second that, I’ve just recently started migrating my open source application [0] to use Redux Toolkit and the hooks API (+Typescript) and it’s been a pleasure to use and MUCH less boilerplate than the previous implementation. Thanks for your efforts working on this!

[0] https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/tree/v2beta

New comment by chrismaltby in "Microsoft Tilecode"

chrismaltby — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:18:05 +0000

If it can play Game Boy games I’ve made an easy to use game maker that’s starting to get quite popular https://www.gbstudio.dev/

Show HN: 3D Maze Game proof of concept using no JavaScript, only HTML and CSS

chrismaltby — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:37:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chrismaltby/nojs-maze

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926649

Points: 3

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New comment by chrismaltby in "Custom Game Engines: A Small Study"

chrismaltby — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:30:28 +0000

Looks great, I'm working on a similar kind of project specifically for making Game Boy games.

https://www.gbstudio.dev/

I'll definitely have a look at your project for some ideas.

New comment by chrismaltby in "WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation"

chrismaltby — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:40:29 +0000

That looks awesome! I noticed that you don't have Game Boy on there, not sure if it's useful to you but I started to make a WebAssembly port of GBDK: https://github.com/chrismaltby/gbdk-emscripten which I was planning to use in my Game Boy game maker eventually https://www.gbstudio.dev/

New comment by chrismaltby in "Making a Game Boy Game in 2017"

chrismaltby — Fri, 24 May 2019 17:27:04 +0000

The author of this article was really helpful chatting with me on Reddit while I was building GB Studio and still working it all out :-)

New comment by chrismaltby in "GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy"

chrismaltby — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:46:35 +0000

Hi, sorry for the delay replying, weirdly Electron names the output win32-x64 even though it's only for 64-bit, I think the naming convention is platform (win32) then architecture (x64). Either way I've just built a 32-bit version which hopefully will work for you https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/releases/download/v... though I'm not sure how it's going to manage with 1Gb RAM.

New comment by chrismaltby in "GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy"

chrismaltby — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 20:40:20 +0000

Saving/loading is definitely on my todo list. The game I built this for originally was only small and was intended to be finished in one sitting but I’ll be adding support for saving soon.

New comment by chrismaltby in "GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy"

chrismaltby — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:11:06 +0000

I was definitely inspired by NESMaker, yeah!