VisualBoyAdvance

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Template:Infobox Software VisualBoyAdvance ("VBA") is a Free Software emulator distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It emulates software targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo. VBA is (as of 2006) the most popular such emulator for Win32. VBA and gnuboy are the most widely distributed Game Boy-compatible emulators.

Latest Beta Release 1.8.0 beta 3

Info

The VisualBoyAdvance project was started by Forgotten, but was discontinued by him and the project was overtaken by a team now referred to as the VBA Team.

Features

VBA includes a wide range of features compared to other Game Boy Advance emulators. Some of the features are listed below:

• Loading/Saving of game states (up to 10)
• Screenshots of running games
• Importing/Exporting of battery files, GameShark code files and GameShark snapshots
• Automatic or manual frame skipping
• Fullscreen and windowed modes
• Automatic IPS patching
• Realtime clock
• Virtual GameBoy Printer
• Use of BIOS file
• File association with agb, gba, gbc and gb-files
• Recording sound as wave
• Sound effects
• Change priority of the process
• Support for Joypads/Joysticks
• Cheats
• Includes a disassembler
• Map viewer
• Memory viewer
• OAM/Sprite viewer
• Palette viewer
• Tile viewer
• Recording of AVI-video files
• Bug reporter

External links

• VisualBoyAdvance homepage
• VBA Link - Modified version of the VisualBoy Advance with multiplayer link cable support and 4-player LAN connection added to VBA emu.
• VBALinkReal - Modified version of the VisualBoy Advance with multiplayer link cable support with a real GBA added to VBA emu.

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