Tetris

Game: Tetris (Game Boy, 1989)

A static recompilation of the Game Boy Tetris with the author’s own version of gb-recompiled: the SM83 code is translated to C and compiled to native code, and the runtime library simulates video, sound, and the mapper. Its author believes it’s 100% playable: the A-Type and B-Type modes, the menus, the attract demo, music, and sound effects all work, without going through the interpreter thanks to 64 entry points harvested from real runs. It uses the shared recomp-ui launcher, which checks the ROM and opens an in-game menu with F1. Version 0.0.3 (August 17) fixed the bug in 0.0.2 that rejected every ROM. 10 of its 13 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own Tetris (World) ROM for Game Boy, version 1.0 (CRC32 63F9407D); the 1.1 revision won’t work. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Game Boy

Architecture

Sharp SM83

Author

mstan

Original studio

Nintendo R&D1

Year

1989

Stars

8

Last activity

2026-08-17 · 2 months ago

Latest version

v0.0.3 · 2026-08-17

Language

C