Ocelot
A Game Boy and Game Boy Color Emulator in Haskell
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The web version of the emulator: https://pixel-clover.github.io/ocelot/Project repo og GitHub: https://github.com/pixel-clover/ocelot
HN · launched May 8, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: video game console emulators · 100 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Writing a cycle-accurate hardware emulator in Haskell demands low-level hardware architecture knowledge and timing-accurate digital circuit emulation.
What it would actually take: The system requires an accurate implementation of the Sharp LR35902 CPU opcode set, cycle-exact memory-mapped I/O, LCD PPU pixel pipeline, programmable sound generator (PSG/APU), and cartridge bank switching (MBCs) written in Haskell and compiled to WebAssembly. This requires deep systems architecture knowledge and low-level emulation expertise.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 265 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #249 of 266 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 182 days after the earliest competitor.
- VBoyColor · github · 2026-10-06 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- GBC2DMG · github · 2026-09-17 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Game Boy pixel pipeline explorer · hn · 2026-05-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- pi_plays_pokemon · github · 2026-09-28 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- pokemon-claude-red · github · 2026-09-26 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Red White Emulator · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- claude-pokemon-mod · github · 2026-10-03 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Game Boy on the Beam · hn · 2026-07-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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