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ArduDate(ArduBoy Emulator for Playdate)

ARDUBOY GAMES ON YOUR PLAYDATE ArduDate is an Arduboy emulator for Playdate. The Arduboy is a tiny console with a black and white screen and a few hundred homebrew games, so they look right on a Playdate without any conversion. The 128×64 picture is drawn at exactly 3× size. It's an early version. I'd like to know which games you try and how they run. WHAT'S IN IT 7 games built in. Get games: a list of about 200 more, downloaded over Wi-Fi. All of them have an open license and were checked to start. Your own .hex and .arduboy files, copied over USB. Arduboy FX games (.arduboy packages with FX data). Sound, and the saves a game makes on a real Arduboy. Every game has its own save. BUILT-IN GAMES Catacombs of the Damned by James Howard. First-person dungeon shooter. Ardynia by Matt Greer. Zelda-style adventure. ArduGolf by Peter Brown. 3D mini golf. ArduRogue by Peter Brown. Roguelike. Space Cab by Stephane C (vampirics) and Simon Holmes (filmote). Fly a taxi, deliver passengers. Hopper by obono. Jump from platform to platform. Rooftop Rescue by Bert van't Veer. Helicopter rescue. TWO DOWNLOADS ArduDate-<version>.pdx.zip has the 7 games inside. ArduDate_Empty-<version>.pdx.zip has none. The same games are in Get games. Install one of them. Your games and saves stay in place either way. ADDING YOUR OWN GAMES Open ArduDate once, so it creates its folder. On the Playdate: Settings → System → Reboot to Data Disk, then connect it to a computer. Copy .hex or .arduboy files into Shared/ArduDate on the PLAYDATE drive. Eject the drive and open ArduDate. Downloaded games go to the same folder. Updating ArduDate doesn't touch it. GOOD TO KNOW Most games run at full speed. Heavy 3D ones can drop to about three quarters of it. Some games may look wrong or not work. Being in the list means a game starts, not that I played it through. Only Arduboy and Arduboy FX games. Builds for the Arduboy Mini or home-made boards won't run. Games downloaded as .hex have no cover picture. No save states yet. Tested on a Rev B Playdate only. If you have an older one, tell me how it goes. CONTROLS D-pad, A, B: the same buttons as on the Arduboy. A hint under the game picture shows which is which. In the library: A plays or downloads, B opens options (play, delete), left and right switch tabs, the crank scrolls. System menu: exit to the library, swap A/B for this game, sound on or off. FEEDBACK Leave a comment with what you played and what broke. For a bug, the game's name and your Playdate model help. After a crash, crashlog.txt and errorlog.txt from the root of the Data Disk help even more. ALSO FROM ME: PICODATE AND MONOTANKS MonoTanks is my Playdate game: Battle City tank battles in 1-bit. PicoDate is the same kind of emulator for PICO-8 games. CREDITS Ardens by Peter Brown. ArduDate's core is written from scratch, with Ardens as the reference for how the hardware behaves. Erwin's Arduboy Collection: the game list behind Get games. CrankBoy: the fast-memory trick comes from their open-source work. Every game belongs to its author. The built-in ones are unmodified builds under their own licenses (MIT, MPL-2.0, GPL-3.0; Ardynia with Matt Greer's permission to share the complete game). Source links are in LICENSES.txt inside the download. Arduboy is a trademark of Arduboy, Inc. Playdate is a trademark of Panic Inc. ArduDate is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with either.