Gba Emulator, Help Please

[chaos engineer]

is somebody able to run games with this gba emulator called visualboyadvance?

I do not understand the read me file:

"This is a straight port of VisualBoyAdvance SDL. Copy VisualBoyAdvance.gpe, VisualBoyAdvance.cfg, and vba_launch.gpe anywhere on your sd card. Edit vba_launch.gpe and change rom.gba to your rom and run vba_launch.gpe through the games menu. Zip files aren't supported yet. Controls are changeable in VisualBoyAdvance.cfg"

 

[sam fisher]

Open it up with a text editor or maybe a Hex Editor?

 

[Vimacs]

read it agian...

Edit vba_launch.gpe and change rom.gba to your rom and run vba_launch.gpe

 

[barnesy]

Cool! I was thinking 'GBA? Don't be silly!', but there it is on gp2x.de! Sounds promising!

 

[Treble]

so all GBA games run smoothly on this? *still waiting for mine in mail*

 

[chaos engineer]

thanks to sam fisher and Vimacs; I just did not know that it is possible to open the gpe-file with the editor.

 

[DynaMight]

It ran Mario Advance at a healthy 0fps here but it ran!!

It's only like half the screen also but it's a start!

 

[Paradox]

at least were getting somewhere with a gba emu.

 

[Draken]

Since when is there a gba emu for gp2x?
Linkywinky?

 

[declaration]

just playing rayman now.

it is very slow but nice to see anyway

 

[Vimacs]

so all GBA games run smoothly on this? *still waiting for mine in mail*

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Are you stupid or just naive?

 

[barnesy]

Since when is there a gba emu for gp2x?
Linkywinky?

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try thinking which gp2x file archive you might be able to get a copy on...

 

[chaos engineer]

I am checking out advance wars 2. it is slow, but it works

 

[Draken]

Since when is there a gba emu for gp2x?
Linkywinky?

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try thinking which gp2x file archive you might be able to get a copy on...

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Good enough, I though it would be posted on the news or something.

 

[barnesy]

I've a feeling it'll make it onto the news page when it gets spotted!

 

[domm1024]

Here is the link to download.
http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,1,1018

I just posted the file to the archive and didn't post any topics or anything. Sorry about the typos in the title and description, apparently I can't type today.

 

[timofonic]

http://gpadvance.sourceforge.net

What about continue this and porting it to GP2X?

 

[barnesy]

The source is there. Go for it!

 

[domm1024]

Ah, didn't know that existed. I'll take a look at it. It looks like it might be alot easier to get that optimized than VisualBoyAdvance. I don't thik I really want to try to optimize VisualBoyAdvance anyway, I just wanted to see if I could port it.

 

[pip]

There were two GBA emulators for the GP32, one was a port of VBA, much like the one here, it was extremely slow and was likely never going to be able to get much better. Then there was something quite different, GPAdvance, it wasn't really an emulator, instead it made use of the fact that both the GBA and GP32 has the same brand of CPU. It didn't emulate the main processor, instead it lived on the GP32 hardware, though it was never finished, it was of decent speed and showed extremely good promise.

If you are seriously attempting GBA emulation on the GP2X, you should definately consider going the GPAdvance route.