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.
![random image](https://api.circuitmess.com/1587033175500-Emulator_1_Cropped.png)
![random image](https://api.circuitmess.com/1587033182779-Emulator_2_Cropped.png)
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: