diff --git a/frontends/sdl/Cargo.toml b/frontends/sdl/Cargo.toml
index 4c68892c503034d1a0266613cd999d9180cba59b..70fabd1dbd1e4ac50407cfc1a8e4ea616568adc4 100644
--- a/frontends/sdl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/frontends/sdl/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 keywords = ["gameboy", "emulator", "rust", "sdl"]
 edition = "2018"
 
+[features]
+debug = ["boytacean/debug"]
+
 [dependencies.boytacean]
 path = "../.."
 
diff --git a/frontends/sdl/README.md b/frontends/sdl/README.md
index 75c153a41485dcef6f204b8b9d1450bde176794e..163d1b2e9ff09f07c11d104e7a28e0beea1101c3 100644
--- a/frontends/sdl/README.md
+++ b/frontends/sdl/README.md
@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ To reload the code continuously use the cargo watch tool:
 cargo install cargo-watch
 cargo watch -x run
 ```
+
+There are some feature flags that control the verbosity of the emulator to run in debug mode use:
+
+```bash
+cargo run --features debug
+```