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gearboy-romhacking
drhelius/GearboySkill
Hack, modify, and translate Game Boy / Game Boy Color ROMs using the Gearboy
Why this score
This repo hosts 2 skills, so its 1,219 stars are split between them (about 610 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 77/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit e9ecb9bd8f42, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.scripts/install.sh:71 and 1 more
- Installs system packagesscripts/install.sh:135
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onegearboy-romhacking drhelius/Gearboy · Skill | 77 | ★ 1.2k | ≈24 always | 16d ago |
| gearsystem-romhacking drhelius/Gearsystem · Skill Both about romhacking and rom | 73 | ★ 396 | ≈24 always | 16d ago |