Ardens is an Arduboy simulator that is useful for profiling and debugging.
Try out the full debugger here. Drag and drop an Arduboy game (.hex/.elf/.arduboy) and any FX data (.bin) onto the page.
Try the minimal player with one of the game URLs below:
Key | Purpose |
---|---|
Arrows | Arduboy: directional buttons |
A/Z | Arduboy: A button |
S/X/B | Arduboy: B button |
F1 | (Desktop Debugger Only) Save screenshot of entire window |
F2 | Save screenshot |
F3 | Toggle GIF recording |
F4 | (Debugger only) Save snapshot |
F5 | (Debugger only) Pause/Continue |
F8 | Reset |
F11 | Toggle fullscreen |
O | (Debugger only) Settings window |
P | (Debugger only) Toggle player mode |
R | Rotate display |
There is a web build hosted on GitHub pages: to create a link to a playable Arduboy game using Ardens Player, you can follow these patterns:
https://tiberiusbrown.github.io/Ardens/player.html?file=https://example.com/game.arduboy
https://tiberiusbrown.github.io/Ardens/player.html?file=https://example.com/game.hex&file=https://example.com/game.bin
The web builds of the debugger and player accept the following additional URL parameters (e.g., add ¶m1=value1¶m2=value2
to the URL).
Overlays the display with a grid to allow easier disambiguation of adjacent pixels.
Values: none
, normal
, red
, green
, blue
, cyan
, magenta
, yellow
, white
Adjusts the color palette of the display.
Values: default
, retro
, lowcontrast
, highcontrast
If enabled, applies temporal filtering to the display to help properly render grayscale games.
Values: 0
, 1
(Debugger only) Conditionally applies an upscaling filter.
Values: none
, scale2x
, scale3x
, scale4x
, hq2x
, hq3x
, hq4x
(Debugger only) Downsamples by an integer ratio after applying an upsample filter.
Values: 0
, 1
, 2
, 3
Rotates the display in 90 degree increments (directional button mapping is also rotated as if playing on a rotated Arduboy). Values:
0
ornormal
90
orcw
orcw90
180
orflip
270
orccw
orccw90
Sets the emulated audio gain. Value may be in the range 0 to 200, with 100 being the default.
Sets the initial size of the application window. Value should be in the format <width>x<height>
(for example, size=800x400
).
Restricts the display scaling to an integral scaling factor. Defaults to false for the web player, and true for all other platforms.
Enables modeling the display row driver current limit. This effectively darkens rows that have many lit pixels. Defaults to false.
- SDL (zlib)
- sokol (zlib)
- LLVM Project (Apache v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions)
- Dear ImGui (MIT)
- ImPlot (MIT)
- imgui_markdown (zlib)
- ImGuiColorTextEdit (MIT)
- Simple-FFT (MIT)
- brunexgeek/hqx (Apache v2.0)
- {fmt} (MIT)
- rapidjson (MIT)
- Miniz (MIT)
- Bitsery (MIT)
- stb_image_write (Public Domain)
- GIF encoder (Public Domain)
- AudioFile (MIT)
- Emscripten Browser File Library (MIT)
- Filewatch (MIT)