Pokémon Red / Blue (mstan)

Games: Pokémon Red Version → (Game Boy, 1996) · Pokémon Blue Version → (Game Boy, 1996)

A static recompilation of Pokémon Red and Blue for Windows with the author’s own version of gb-recompiled, derived from arcanite24’s: the Game Boy’s SM83 code is translated to C and compiled to native code, and the runtime library handles video, sound, and the mapper. One executable accepts both ROMs, and graphics, maps, and text are read from yours at launch. It uses the pret/pokered disassembly as a reference for entry points and symbols. Its author presents it as an early prototype, playable from the title screen through the Elite Four; some animations may stutter, sound may cut out briefly in busy scenes, and there’s no link cable support, while code the analysis didn’t find goes through a slower interpreter. The latest version, 0.1.1, is from May 7. 28 of its 31 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Pokémon Red (CRC32 9F7FDD53) or Blue (CRC32 D6DA8A1A) ROM, US/European (UE) release. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Game Boy

Architecture

Sharp SM83

Author

mstan

Original studio

Game Freak

Year

1996

Stars

10

Last activity

2026-07-23 · 3 months ago

Latest version

v0.1.1 · 2026-05-07

Language

C

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