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GBA Emulation, Typesetting & Ricing Linux

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Between the last time I edited this website / blog / homepage and now, quite a few things in my life have changed – my general interests however have stayed the same with a few new additions.

I am still very much into developing emulators (with some downtime here and there) and even worked on a new one for the Game Boy Advance, partially also for my bachelor’s thesis. This introduced me to a little bit of Just-in-Time compilation via cranelift – which was both a great source of frustration but also fun and learning. The JIT part of my GBA emulator is far from finished, and I should really get back to it as I don’t know anyone who has used cranelift for emulation yet, but at the very least the general interpreter is done and many games work, even those using Mode 7!

Game Boy (DMG-01) Emulation

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a few months but my Game Boy emulator is all but finished – or at least ready to be published. Now, for people following me on GitHub it has been available the entire time but now I am at a point where most major features are implemented, plus a few extras, and the UI is presentable!

Since I wrote the entire thing in Rust with egui and eframe as my backend, I was able to quite simply compile it to WASM using Trunk.

About me

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Hey, my name is Kevin! I am a computer science master’s student¹ at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.

I quite enjoy systems programming (compilers & emulation), computer graphics and typesetting – my languages of choice are Rust, C++ and Typst. Currently, I am quite obsessed with emulation development and its exponentially growing complexity.

I’ve developed emulators for the following systems:

CHIP-8 – the “Hello, World” of emulation development.
Color Game Boy – try it right here!
Game Boy Advance – featuring an experimental JIT with cranelift.

I plan to tackle either the Nintendo DS or PlayStation 1 next to emulate a system with 3D graphics since I also dabble in computer graphics from time to time as that was my main point of study at university. Compilers – especially just-in-time – as well as typesetting² to ensure beautifully formatted papers are also things I enjoy working on.

Résumé / CV

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Kevin Kulot

contact data or where to find me!

📧 kevinakulot(at)gmail.com

> github/xkevio

📌 magdeburg, germany

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science (OvGU Magdeburg) April 2024 - Present

ongoing…
B.Sc. Computational Visualistics (OvGU Magdeburg) Oct 2019 - May 2024

With a special focus on computer graphics and visualization.
Overall grade: 1.8. Thesis grade: 1.2.

Performance Analysis of LLVM and Cranelift Codegen for Just-in-Time Compilation in Emulation.
Abitur (equiv. A-levels) Aug 2011 - July 2019

Showcase

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κba (Game Boy Advance Emulator)

W.I.P. Game Boy Advance emulator, using SDL2 for the GUI. Runs most games reasonably well, includes experiments with JIT compilation (by utilizing the cranelift crate).

Uses a LUT generated at build-time for opcode lookups based on certain bit patterns.

kevboy – Color Game Boy Emulator (+ DMG-01)

A Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in Rust, using egui for an immediate mode GUI and WASM-based browser version. Runs reasonably fast and marks my first real foray into console emulation.

>> Try it here! <<

parcio-thesis/parcio-slides – Thesis & Slide Templates for Typst

ParCIO-inspired thesis, report & slides template made with Typst. Officially endorsed by the head of the working group and used since in numerous theses instead of the LaTeX variants.

Submitted to the Typst Universe as to make it available within the Typst package management ecosystem; maintained through several version updates.

retrofit – Custom Backreferences for Typst Bibliographies

retrofit adds backreferences to each bibliography entry in a Typst document.

More precisely, retrofit queries for all instances of a citation in the document, collects the page(s) it is on and formats them according to the specified function, while keeping them in the link element to the location.

Creasy (Computational Origami, Crease Patterns)

Creasy is a software tailored to computational origami which implements an algorithm that turns flat-foldable crease patterns into folding sequences.