Enhanced mGBA

[Extrems]

An enhanced port of the Game Boy Advance emulator, based on Game Boy Interface.

Download:
https://files.extremscorner.org/gamecube/apps/mgba/latest
https://files.extremscorner.org/gamecube/apps/mgba/latest-extra
https://files.extremscorner.org/gamecube/apps/mgba/20160107

Source:
https://github.com/Extrems/mGBA
https://github.com/Extrems/mGBA/tree/20160107

See also:

• Game Boy Interface - An alternative to the Game Boy Player Start-up Disc.
• Not64 - An experimental modification of Mupen64GC.

[emu_kidid]

Wow, out of nowhere, nice!

[novenary]

Wow, great. It actually manages full speed unlike VBA GX. I still don't have any use in emulators on the Cube but it's great that this exists.

[sindrik]

Incredible! Thanks!

[Aressi]

Thank you very much you are the best

[Extrems]

• Added normal/full screen modes.
• Added 3DS Controller support.

[emu_kidid]

3DS controller support you say?

[bearteam]

To my test, The speed is great (framerate keeps 59.94 for most games); 32MB ROM such as Mother 3 would not run; No buttons remapping available.
It is very promising for early release.

[novenary]

ROMs are loaded into ARAM, so only up to 16MB is supported unless an expansion device is designed as discussed on IRC.

[Extrems]

It'd just happen to work right now if you had one, it's possible to solve this through other means.

[Extrems]

• Added Wii port.

[ShadowOne333]

I got several questions for this release:

1) What is the changelog between this version and the official mGBA port?
2) Is the source code for this project (EmGBA) keeping up with the changes that the official mGBA nightlies are implementing?
Or is it based on a certain nightly?
3) Does this have button mapping and filter options?

[Extrems]

1) What is the changelog between this version and the official mGBA port?

How do you make a changelog between independent ports?

2) Is the source code for this project (EmGBA) keeping up with the changes that the official mGBA nightlies are implementing?
Or is it based on a certain nightly?

At the moment, it's based on the Git master at the time of release.

3) Does this have button mapping and filter options?

No button mapping, refer to Game Boy Interface's documentation for options.

meta.xml example:

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	<arguments>
		<arg>--filter=scale2x</arg>
		<arg>--input-gamma=2.2</arg>
	</arguments>

[Extrems]

• Changed "no filter" to really mean "no filter". The default is now called NormalNx.

This addresses one of the_randomizer's concerns.

[emu_kidid]

This addresses one of the_randomizer's concerns.

We can't ignore those

[ShadowOne333]

Got two more questions:

1) Seeing how screen size has been added to Configurations, would it be too much to add the most used arguments in there too?
2) If I want to make the game to fill the entire screen, which option should I set?
--aspect=16:9?

[Extrems]

1) Seeing how screen size has been added to Configurations, would it be too much to add the most used arguments in there too?

Maybe.

2) If I want to make the game to fill the entire screen, which option should I set?
--aspect=16:9?

You'd set the aspect ratio to be the same as the GBA's, 3:2.
You'll likely need to set a custom zoom level as well.