Using an emulator

Using an emulator

Emulators are a great way to test your program/game if you’ve just ordered your MAKERbuino but didn’t receive it yet.

There are a couple of Gamebuino-compatible emulators available:
  • Gbsim (Debian/Ubuntu and Windows)
  • RetroMicro (Android)
  • Simbuino (Windows)
  • Simbuino4Web (HTML5)
We’ll use Simbuino4Web as it is really easy to use and doesn’t require any installation. You just need to upload your HEX-File and you can instantly test your game.

If you’ve already exported your compiled Binary a.k.a. HEX file (see Copying the HEX-file to your SD card), you’re almost ready to go.

Now go to http://simbuino4web.ppl-pilot.com/. There are two different options.

You can either upload a whole SD-card image file or just a single HEX-file. We’ll be focusing on the single HEX-file.

Hit the “chose file” button next to “Load a .HEX game file” and locate your “HELLO.HEX” file. The emulation will start right after the upload has finished.

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That was easy, wasn’t it? An emulator comes in really handy if you want to test everything really quick!

And that’s it! You’ve learned a lot today! You now know how to setup the
Arduino IDE. And you know how to test your program/game in three different ways.

You can now try your hand out at programing a Pong game with our coding guide that you can find below: 
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