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CLUSTER EDITOR-GAME-BOY · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-05-12

Retro game map and tileset editors

This cluster comprises desktop tools and libraries for creating, editing, and viewing maps, tilesets, and graphics for retro game development, with a focus on Pokémon ROM hacks and Game Boy-era titles. The dated history is sparse, with entries in 2014-12, 2019-08, a small concentration in 2020 (two in May, two in November), and one in 2024-04, showing no clear overall trend beyond a slight bump in 2020. The clear traction leader is Autotile-Studio with 24 stars, while the other two tracked members have zero stars each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2014: 1AUG 2019: 1MAY 2020: 2NOV 2020: 2APR 2024: 1AUG 2026: 1
DEC 2014AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 7 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Autotile-Studio26★2 mo—hobbyDesktop tool that generates and hand-edits tileset image assets for game maps from parameters or imported reference images.
  2. 02Polished Map0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop editor for creating and modifying maps and tilesets in Game Boy era monster-collecting ROM hack projects and their derivatives.
  3. 03Polished Map++0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop editor for maps and tilesets in monster-collecting ROM hack projects that use expanded per-block tile attribute data files.
  4. 04polished-map0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMap and tileset editor for Pokémon Game Boy games, allowing creation and editing of locations and graphics for ROM hacks.
  5. 05tilemap-studio0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAn editor for creating tilemaps for Game Boy, GBC, GBA, and SNES projects, used in game development.
  6. 06tile-molester0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA multi-format graphics editor for ROM hacking, enabling users to view and modify game graphics data.
  7. 07python-pytmx0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePython library that reads Tiled Map Editor's TMX map files for use in game development.
  8. 08red-alien0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA script compiler and editor for Pokémon GBA ROMs.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.