Release Visualboyadvance

[cosam]

A quick build/package of VBA for the Pandora.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,84

GB is pretty good, GBA needs frameskip (configured by default) and maybe some extra umph in the MHz department. Config file gets copied to appdata/vba.cfg so you can experiment with it.

Enjoy!


PS. Not sure if the key mappings for Select and the shoulders are right, so if there's anything amiss let me know.

 

[paddy]

Can't get it to work,have tried 4 roms that work on my psp uncompressed files.

Does it require the bios file

 

[cosam]

I've not tried many, but everything I did try worked. Which ones are you having trouble with? Any clues in /tmp/pndrunvba<foo>?

AFAIK it doesn't require a BIOS file.

 

[cbrotherson]

Brilliant stuff, Steve, thanks Still waiting for my Pandora, but this is welcome news.

 

[paddy]

mariokart,fzero,sonic advance 2,castlevania moon,metroid zero mission . tested zipped and unzipped from the sd and nand dirs.

 

[paddy]

in fork!
mountpoint: /media/mmcblk0p1
/usr/pandora/scripts/pnd_run.sh: line 120: [: !: integer expression expected
not mounted on loop yet, doing so
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
Filetype is ISO
sudo mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/pnd/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/
mounting union!
Filesystem is vfat
VisualBoyAdvance version 1.7.2 [SDL]
Searching for file VisualBoyAdvance.cfg
Searching current directory: /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0
Searching home directory: /home/paddy
Searching system config directory: /usr/local/etc
Searching executable directory
Configuration file NOT FOUND (using defaults)
Unknown file type /media/mmcblk0p1/Misc
app exited
rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0': Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `/mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0': Is a directory
rmdir: failed to remove `/media/mmcblk0p1/pandora/appdata/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/.wh..wh.plnk': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove `/media/mmcblk0p1/pandora/appdata/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/.wh..wh..tmp': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove `/media/mmcblk0p1/pandora/appdata/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/': Directory not empty
cleanup done

 

[Mjlink]

I can't even get the .PND to copy to my SD card from OpenHandhelds or the Apps.open-pandora.org

No big deal, SNES, calls.

Peace & Pandora

Link

PS I started a topic about this in the I Need Help section

 

[mQQm]

Hi

If I can help

After the PND launches this is the contents of /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0

dave-openpandora:/mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0$ ls -l
total 5267
-r-xr-xr-x 1 dave root  131072 Apr 15  1997 R-Type (U) [!].gb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dave root 4194304 Dec 24  1996 R-Type III - The Third Lightning (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).gba
-r-xr-xr-x 1 dave root   65536 Apr  1  2000 Solar Striker (JU) [!].gb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dave root    5215 Jun  3 02:10 VisualBoyAdvance.cfg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    5215 Jun  3  2010 default.cfg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root     731 Jun  3  2010 pxml.xml
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  920468 Jun  3  2010 vba
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dave root    5215 Jun  2 21:54 vba.cfg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    8392 Jun  3  2010 vba.png
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root     135 Jun  3  2010 vba.sh

Here is the contents of VisualBoyAdvance.cfg

Spoiler

dave-openpandora:/mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0$ cat VisualBoyAdvance.cfg
# All numeric values are in hexadecimal
# Use TAB or EQUAL sign to separate name from value

#
# Key configuration (all numbers are in hexadecimal!)
#
# Keys values are in the format YXXX where Y is the device number. 0 means
# keyborad and XXX is the SDL define for the desired key (read SDL_keysym.h).
#
# If Y is greater than 0, it means joystick number Y-1 and it uses the
# following format for XXX:
#
# - if XXX < 20, XXX is the axis number multiplied by 2. An even number means
# movement to the negative side (on the X axis, it means left). An odd
# number means movement to the positive side (on the X axis, it mean
# right). For the Y axis, negative means up and positive means down.
# X axis is usally axis number 0 and Y is axis number 1.
# - if 20 >= XXX > 30, then XXX is the HAT number multiplied by 4 plus the
# direction: 0 for up, 1 for down, 2 for right and 3 for left. Example:
# 0021 is HAT 0 down, 0026 is HAT 1 right.
# - if 80 >= XXX > 100, XXX is the joystick button number (XXX-080).
#
# Default key configuration is (value in parenthesis):
#
# Left Left Arrow (0114)
# Right Right Arrow (0113)
# Up Up Arrow (0111)
# Down Down Arrow (0112)
# A Z (007a)
# B X (0078)
# L A (0061)
# R S (0073)
# Start ENTER (000d)
# Select BACKSPACE (0008)
# Speed up SPACE (0020)
# Capture F12 (0125)
#
Joy0_Left=0114
Joy0_Right=0113
Joy0_Up=0111
Joy0_Down=0112
Joy0_A=0119
Joy0_B=0116
Joy0_L=0130
Joy0_R=0131
Joy0_Start=0134
Joy0_Select=0132
Joy0_Speed=0020
Joy0_Capture=0125

# Motion support keys. Same format as above
#
# Default keys are (value in parenthesis):
#
# Left Numeric Pad 4 (0104)
# Right Numeric Pad 6 (0106)
# Up Numeric Pad 8 (0108)
# Down Numeric Pad 2 (0102)
#
Motion_Left=0104
Motion_Right=0106
Motion_Up=0108
Motion_Down=0102

# Frame skip setting. Allowed values are from 0 to 5 only.
frameSkip=2

# Gameboy Frame skip setting. Allowed values are from 0 to 5 only.
gbFrameSkip=0

# Video setting. 0=1x, 1=2x, 2=3x, 3=4x.
video=2

# Use fullscreen mode. 0=false, any other value means true
fullScreen=1

# Disables MMX support
disableMMX=1

# Use bios file. 0=false, any other value means true
useBios=0

# Bios file full path and name (ZIP not supported)
biosFile=none

# Filter to use. 0=no filter, 1=TV Mode, 2=2xSaI, 3=Super 2xSaI, 4=Super Eagle
# 5=Pixelate, 6=Motion Blur, 7=AdvanceMAME Scale2x, 8=Simple 2x,
# 9=Bilinear, A=Bilinear Plus, B=hq2x, C=lq2x
filter=0

# Disable status messages. 0=false, any other value means true
disableStatus=0

# Enable Gameboy border. 0=false, any other value means true
borderOn=0

# Gameboy emulator type. 0=automatic, 1=CGB/GBC, 2=SGB, 3=GB, 4=GBA, 5=SGB2
emulatorType=0

# Enable washed colors. 0=false, any other value means true
colorOption=1

# Directories. Not setting one them makes the file go the rom directory.

# Save state directory
#saveDir=

# Screen shot Capture directory
#captureDir=

# Battery directory
#batteryDir=

# Screen capture format
# 0=PNG, anything else for BMP
captureFormat=0

# Sound quality
# 1=44 Khz, 2=22Khz, 4=11Khz
soundQuality=2

# Sound Echo
# 0=false, anything else for true
soundEcho=0

# Sound Low pass filter
# 0=false, anything else for true
soundLowPass=0

# Sound reverse stereo
# 0=false, anything else for true
soundReverse=0

# Remove GBA intros (not supported anymore)
# 0=false, anything else for true
# removeIntros=0

# Save Type
# 0=automatic, 1=EEPROM, 2=SRAM, 3=Flash, 4=EEPROM+Sensor, 5=NONE
saveType=0

# Flash size
# 0=64K Flash, 1=128K Flash

flashSize=0

# Sound volume
# 0=1x, 1=2x, 2=3x, 3=4x
soundVolume=0

# Interframe blending
# 0=none, 1=motion blur, 2=smart
ifbType=0

# Show emulation speed
# 0=none, 1=percentage, 2=detailed
showSpeed=0

# Show speed in transparent mode
# 0=normal, anything else for transparent
showSpeedTransparent=1

# Enable/Disable auto frameskip
# 0=disable, anything else to enable
autoFrameSkip=0

# Sets the desired throttle
# 0=disable, 5...1000 valid throttle speeds
throttle=0

# Pauses the emulator when the window is inactive
# 0=disable, anything else to enable
pauseWhenInactive=0

# Enables AGBPrint support
# 0=disable, anything else to enable
agbPrint=0

# Enables GBA RTC support
# 0=disable, anything else to enable
rtcEnabled=1

# Sound OFF flag
# 0=sound on, anything else turns off sound
soundOff=0

# Sound Enable
# Controls which channels are enabled: (add values)
# 1 - Channel 1
# 2 - Channel 2
# 4 - Channel 3
# 8 - Channel 4
# 100 - DirectSound A
# 200 - DirectSound B
# 30f=all enabled, 0=mute all
soundEnable=30f

# Controls automatic SGB border
# 0=disable, anything else enables automatic SGB border display
borderAutomatic=0

# Skip bios code
# 0=disable, anything else skips BIOS code
skipBios=0

# The interval between the rewind saves
# Minimum of 0 seconds to disable rewind support,
# Maximum of 60 minutes. Value in seconds (hexadecimal numbers)
rewindTimer=0

# Enable enhanced save type detection
# 0=disable, anything else to enable (no longer used)
#enhancedDetection=1

On selecting a rom here is the log output

dave-openpandora:/tmp$ cat pndrunvba.cosam.1.7.2.0.out
in fork!
mountpoint: /media/mmcblk0p1
/usr/pandora/scripts/pnd_run.sh: line 120: [: !: integer expression expected
not mounted on loop yet, doing so
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
Filetype is ISO
sudo mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/pnd/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/
mounting union!
Filesystem is vfat
VisualBoyAdvance version 1.7.2 [SDL]
Searching for file VisualBoyAdvance.cfg
Searching current directory: /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0
Reading configuration file.
Unknown file type /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/Solar
app exited
rmdir: failed to remove `/mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0': Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove `/mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0': Is a directory
umount: /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
umount: /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0: device is busy.
        (In some cases useful info about processes that use
         the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
umount failed, didnt clean up

Hope that helps

 

[mQQm]

I think the full file name is not being passed.

Unknown file type /mnt/utmp/vba.cosam.1.7.2.0/Solar
Unknown file type /media/mmcblk0p1/Misc

 

[fraseyboy]

It would be very cool if it supported GBA multiplayer over wifi with other Pandora's...

 

[slaeshjag]

There is a version of VBA that supports link cable emulated over network.

 

[devhace]

This is win! GBA is the best. I'm so excited.

 

[RajTakhar]

great work

 

[johnmy]

...
Searching home directory: /home/paddy
Searching system config directory: /usr/local/etc
Searching executable directory
Configuration file NOT FOUND (using defaults)
Unknown file type /media/mmcblk0p1/Misc
app exited
...

paddy - do you have any spaces in the directory names where your roms are stored, or in the names of the rom files?

I had a similar issue which I fixed by removing spaces from the file names...

 

[cosam]

Yep, this is why I abhor spaces in file names ;-) I uploaded a new PND to the archive which should fix this. The link in my original post has been changed too.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,84

I didn't upload it entirely correctly by the looks of it - should have been an update to the existing package. Still getting the hang of the file archive, I'm afraid... URL may therefore change again when this is fixed.

 

[Dead1nside]

Thanks so much SteveM. I was hoping that some white knight would get a Gameboy emulator ported.

 

[torpor]

There is a version of VBA that supports link cable emulated over network.

I absolutely MUST know about this!! Anyone got it to work yet? I'd love to see how this works and to try it out - I've got two Pandoras, so if anyone can tell me what I need to do to get it working, I'd be very appreciative!

 

[HackModford]

Wow... I just got the update for this emulator and loaded a GBA game. While it is slow (not for long right?) GBA games look like they were made for the pandora.

 

[Pickle]

well i got beat to releasing this, no biggie ;-)
what is the pnd using to select the rom?

 

[cosam]

GBA games look like they were made for the pandora.

Lucky, that. GBA = 240x160, scale it up 3x and that's 720x480, so just tiny borders at the sides.

BTW: Left shoulder was indeed incorrectly configured. Line 44 of vba.cfg should be:

Joy0_L=012f

I'll put out a new PND, but existing users can simply edit this file in pandora/appdata/vbaXXX.