XGNUBOY(6)
๐ฎ XGNUBOY ๐ฎ
okay so bestie, welcome to the Games Manual section โ yeah, section 6, we're in the games club ๐
โ and today's main character is xgnuboy, a whole gnuboy Game Boy Emulator. she runs Game Boy games. that's the vibe. no cap.
โจ SYNOPSIS โจ
xgnuboy [options] romfile
so like. you give her options if you want, and then you give her the romfile โ the actual game โ and she goes. periodt. ๐
๐ DESCRIPTION ๐
okay so this is where it gets juicy. lowkey all the good stuff lives here. here's every single thing she can do:
--source FILEโ readrccommands from FILE. like, she'll go grab her instructions from that file, iykyk ๐--bind KEY COMMANDโ bind KEY to perform COMMAND. you're telling her "when I press this, do that" and honestly? iconic. ๐--VAR=VALUEโ set rc variable VAR to VALUE. you pick the variable, you pick the value, chef's kiss ๐--VARโ sets VAR to1, which is the move for turning on those boolean options. on. lit. ๐ฅ--no-VARโ sets VAR to0, aka turning boolean options off. not today, bestie ๐--showvarsโ lists out every available rc variable for you. she's showing you the whole closet ๐--helpโ displays this help and then exits. she's helpful AND she knows when to leave ๐ญ--versionโ outputs version information and exits. flexing her age, respectfully ๐ธ--copyingโ shows copying permissions. the legal tea โ
๐ AUTHOR ๐
okay so the lore drop: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not a single one. so we made one. you're welcome ๐ซถ
it was written by Davide Puricelli <evo@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system โ but bestie, it may be used by others too. sharing is caring ๐
ngl that's genuinely the whole page. short queen, but she said what she said โจ
and that's a wrap, angel ๐ฆ โ this page is dated July 2001 and it belongs to XGNUBOY(6). yes the 6, the Games Manual one, the one and only ๐ go play some Game Boy, you've earned it ๐ง
๐ฆ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.2
- debian trixie: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.2
- ubuntu jammy: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.1
- ubuntu noble: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.2
- ubuntu questing: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.2
- ubuntu resolute: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.2build1
- ubuntu stonking: gnuboy-x 1.0.3-7.2build1
- ๐ girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms