BlockBoy Arcade

Arcade version of the serverside gameboy emulator!

BlockBoy Arcade

Arcade machines with full gameboy resolution and color support!

Fully server-side, using polymer! Checkout polymers authost feature to host the resource-pack (in polymer/resourcepack.zip) automagically!

There are no recipes, use /polymer creative to see the items or use /give @s blockboy:arcade

The mods' builtin datapack comes with 6 open source gameboy games:

Config

{
  "dateFormat": "dd.MM yyyy, HH:mm",
  "sound": false
}
  • dateFormat: Date format for rom save data tooltip
  • sound: Flag to enable sounds for the playing player using simple voice chat

Adding roms / items

You can either add cartridge items using filament or just use the blockboy:rom component to give yourself an item that can play a given rom file: /give @s paper[blockboy:rom="namespace:game.gb"]

Put the roms in data/<namespace>/blockboy/<rom>.gb and data/<namespace>/blockboy/<rom>.gbc Make sure the rom file names are lowercase and only contain letters from a to z, 0-9 and/or underscores.

To add your own arcade model item + block use the filament mod and the blockboy:arcade behaviour for decorations.

Arcade example for filament (data/<namespace>/filament/decoration/<name>.json):

{
  "id": "blockboy:arcade",
  "group": "blockboy:items",
  "blockTags": ["shulker_boxes"],
  "itemResource": {
    "models": {
      "default": "blockboy:item/arcade-item",
      "floor": "blockboy:item/arcade"
    }
  },
  "properties": {
    "rotate": true,
    "rotateSmooth": true,
    "stackSize": 1,
    "destroyTime": 2,
    "requiresTool": false
  },
  "behaviour": {
    "blockboy:arcade": {
      "seatTranslation": [0, 0.4, 0],
      "screenTranslation": [0, 0.95, -0.775],
      "screenPitch": -22.5,
      "brightness": 10
    }
  },
  "blocks": [
    {
      "origin": [0,0,-1],
      "size": [1,1,2]
    },
    {
      "origin": [0,1,-1],
      "size": [1,1,1]
    }
  ]
}

Cartridge / rom item example for filament (data/<namespace>/filament/item/<name>.json):

{
  "id": "blockboy:flooder",
  "translations": {
    "en_us": "Flooder"
  },
  "group": "blockboy:items",
  "vanillaItem": "minecraft:paper",
  "itemResource":{
    "models": {
      "default": "blockboy:item/cartridge2"
    }
  },
  "properties": {
    "stackSize": 1
  },
  "components": {
    "blockboy:rom": "namespace:flooder.gb"
  }
}

Blockboy Arcade comes with 2 item textures/models for cartridges, feel free to modify them as you wish: blockboy:item/cartridge1 and blockboy:item/cartridge2

Permissions for Luckperms and friends: blockboy_arcade.command, with vanilla permission level 1

Controls:

  • WASD = DPAD
  • Jump = A
  • Left-Click = B
  • F (swap held item) = Start
  • Q (drop held item) = Select

This project uses code from the coffee-gb gameboy emulator and the Image2Map Mod You can find the original licenses in the "licenses" directory. My changes are also licensed under the MIT license.

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