VisualBoyAdvance

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VisualBoyAdvance

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developer (Forgotten) kxu
Current  version 1.7.2
(May 25, 2004)
Current preliminary version 1.8.0 beta 3
(October 1st, 2005)
operating system Windows , Linux , macOS , FreeBSD , BeOS
programming language C.
category emulator
License GPL ( Free Software )
German speaking Yes
Others Project inactive since 2005Template: Infobox software / maintenance / other
sourceforge.net/projects/vba
VisualBoyAdvance-M

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developer VBA-M Development Team
Current  version 2.1.4
(October 2, 2019)
programming language C.
License GNU General Public License, version 2
vba-m.com

The VisualBoyAdvance is a free emulator under GNU GPL . It emulates the Nintendo - handheld consoles Game Boy , Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance on a PC. In the meantime, however, there are also ports for Sony's PlayStation Portable and Sega's Dreamcast ( Visual Troy Advance ). It is one of the most popular emulators for these platforms. The games are required as ROM rips in files with the extensions * .gba, * .gbc or * .gb.

Besides the DirectX version, there is a version that on the free, cross-platform available graphics library Simple Direct Media Layer -based (SDL). These are available for a variety of platforms such as Linux , BSD , macOS , Windows or BeOS .

features

  • Joystick support
  • Full screen
  • different graphic filters
  • Screenshots
  • Save video and audio recordings
  • Saving the game status at any time by means of memory images, fast loading / saving of game statuses using a key combination
  • automatic firing
  • Time lapse button
  • Debugging of GameBoy programs, also over a TCP / IP network

Introduced in VisualBoyAdvance-M:

  • HQ3x / 4X pixel filter
  • Gameboy linking via LAN and Internet

VisualBoyAdvance-M

VisualBoyAdvance-M (VBA-M) is a fork of VisualBoyAdvance, which arose due to its inactivity. The code has been updated. Several other forks, such as: B. VBALink integrated. Hence the M in the name, which stands for Merge .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. sourceforge.net . In: SourceForge . (accessed December 31, 2016).