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GB Studio VS Nintendo Classic Mini

Compare GB Studio VS Nintendo Classic Mini and see what are their differences

GB Studio logo GB Studio

A free and easy to use game creator for the GameBoy

Nintendo Classic Mini logo Nintendo Classic Mini

The NES is back... but it's mini!
  • GB Studio Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-10-22
  • Nintendo Classic Mini Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-07-25

GB Studio videos

GB Studio 2.0 -- Awesome GameBoy Development Gets More Awesome

More videos:

  • Review - GB Studio -- A Free GameBoy Open Source JRPG Game Engine
  • Review - Nara Makes Games - Larger Sprites in GB Studio Using Child Actors

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GB Studio and Nintendo Classic Mini)
Gaming
23 23%
77% 77
Games
16 16%
84% 84
Gaming Tools
48 48%
52% 52
Game Streaming
0 0%
100% 100

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Reviews

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GB Studio Reviews

Best Game Engines for Linux in 2021
GB Studio is best suited for top-down 2D JRPG style adventure games (+ platformers, point and click games and shoot them ups in GB Studio 2 Beta).
Source: kerneltips.com

Nintendo Classic Mini Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, GB Studio seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GB Studio mentions (4)

  • Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks Everywhere, No VR, and Impressive Indie Games
    Or install the Linux version of GB Studio. :) https://gbstudio.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
  • Game Boy Competition 2023
    This is a game jam where you make a Game Boy game in three months. If you don't know a lot of programming you can use GB Studio, you can learn the nitty gritty of how the Game Boy works by using assembly programming with RGBDS, or you can use C with GBDK or ZGB. Source: 11 months ago
  • Can games be programmed for RetroPie?
    If you want a more "visual" program check out http://gbstudio.dev/ it's really simple and has some very simple templates based on classic GameBoy games. Source: over 1 year ago
  • This Game Boy will Never Give You Up. (Sound On)
    Created with https://github.com/Y0UR-U5ERNAME/gbs-image-colorizer, and http://gbstudio.dev. Source: over 2 years ago

Nintendo Classic Mini mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Nintendo Classic Mini yet. Tracking of Nintendo Classic Mini recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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