Virtual GameBoy Advance: Portable GameBoy Advance Emulator

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GameBoy Advance emulator by Marat Fayzullin

GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, and Nintendo DS are registered trademarks of Nintendo. The author is in no way affiliated with Nintendo. The author is in no way affiliated with any pirate group out there. The author cannot and will not provide you with any GameBoy or GameBoy Advance games.

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Latest Release Version of VGBA is 3.5!
Starting with this version, I have ported VGBA to Unix/X11 and Maemo OS2008 platforms. Both VGBA-Unix and VGBA-Maemo are available from this web page for free.

The VGBA-Unix is available in binary form for 16bpp and 32bpp X11 displays. I will try compiling it for as many Unix flavors as possible. Right now, there are binaries for Ubuntu Linux only.

The VGBA-Maemo runs on N800 and N810 internet tablets from Nokia. It is specifically adjusted to simulate GBA joypad with the touch screen and optimized with ARM assembler routines from VGBA-Symbian. Since the last beta release, I have moved directional joypad buttons to the left of the touchscreen, while moving fire buttons to the right. The .GBA MIME type should also be properly supported now.

I have also made improvements to VGBA-Symbian by rewriting display scaling routines in pure ARM assembler and providing extra configuration options to skip frames and adjust audio latency. The optimized display scaling will mostly benefit UIQ3 users but S60 should also see improvements.

The complete list of features and the list of new features and fixes can be found in the documentation. Both VGBA-Windows and VGBA-MSDOS are now available for the total price of $25 (or lower if you use coupons).

[Picture] What is Virtual GameBoy Advance?
Virtual GameBoy Advance (VGBA) is a program that emulates Nintendo's GameBoy Advance on your computer. It runs GameBoy Advance games on PCs, PDAs, or just about any other sufficiently fast computer. It also helps debugging GameBoy Advance software without using a costly development system. I have previously written another emulator, VGB, that runs older GameBoy and GameBoy Color games. Because GameBoy Advance has completely different hardware, I had to write a new emulator for it, and VGBA runs only GameBoy Advance games. As far as I know, when I released VGBA in 2000, it was the first GameBoy Advance emulator in the world, soon to be joined by other emulators.

[Picture] Licensing
Virtual GameBoy Advance is written in portable C language and can run on pretty much any sufficiently fast computing device, be it a computer, a videogame console, a PDA, an MP3 or DVD player, a set-top box, a cell phone, or even a digital camera. If your company considers using GameBoy Advance emulation in its products, you can license either the whole VGBA source code or the ARM7 CPU emulation from me. I am also available for consulting work in the software emulation, embedded programming, and other fields. See my resume and contact me if interested.

[Picture] Using Your Games with VGBA
It is only legal to play games you actually own on VGBA. You will first need to read a game from its cartridge into a file. This can be done with an inexpensive gadget such as Flash Advance Linker,

Free Updates
Anybody who registers VGBA-Windows becomes entitled to receive free updates by email as long as I am developing the program. If you are already a registered user but have not yet received the latest version of VGBA-Windows, send me an email with your valid email and postal addresses for verification, and you will get one.

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Virtual GameBoy Advance Windows all Windows versions Virtual GameBoy Advance MSDOS included with VGBA-Windows Virtual GameBoy Advance Symbian trial for S60 3rd Edition (buy or see instructions) Virtual GameBoy Advance Symbian trial for UIQ3 (buy or see instructions) Virtual GameBoy Advance Linux (Ubuntu7, 16bpp/32bpp X11, pthreads) Virtual GameBoy Advance Maemo for Nokia N800/N810 tablets (or install directly to device) Virtual GameBoy Advance PocketPC all PocketPC versions Virtual GameBoy Advance 3.0 FreeBSD (FreeBSD 5.x, 16bpp X11, pthreads) Virtual GameBoy Advance 3.0 Linux (RedHat, 16bpp X11, pthreads)
EMUL8 Discussion Group discuss your problems here EMUTools, Z80/6502 emulation cores, etc. The Address Book (look up email addresses here)

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