VBA for PSP released

[wraggster]

A port of the Game Boy Advance emulator <a href="http://vba.ngemu.com/" target="_blank" >Visual Boy Advance</a> has been released on the PSP by a Japanese Coder via the PSP Wiki site, the emulator has no Sound and Plays rather slow, it also can load roms up to 16 mb in size. Heres some screenshots :

<img src="http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/files/vba00.JPG">

<img src="http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/files/vba102.JPG">

More screenshots and the download of this excellent release for the PSP Scene can be found here http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/vbapsp.shtml

[SmashinGit]

OMG! Can't believe the scene has come this far already! For a first release i'm amazed.

[Gamelver]

hmmmm.....I can't get this to work :(.....it just goes straight back to the psp home screen when I start it up (yes, I used mswap and all that...I've gotten at least 4 other emulators working ;)...)

Edit: nvm, just forgot to change the folder's name to VBAPSP :P

[Amiga]

FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC :)

now alls i need is a zx spectrum emulator to be happy :D

[nexis2600]

I'm here trying it out at work (used the gba game I am working on atm).

It's great. It takes up the full vertical section of the screen & it looks amazing.

I can't wait to see the src or an optimised version soon. I wonder if it's doing 333 yet or not.

--edit--

Note the rom must go "PSP/GAMES/VBAPSP/ROM.GBA"

[quzar]

nintendo holds a patent on emulation of the gba. so this is technically as illegal as roms =\

[nexis2600]

nintendo holds a patent on emulation of the gba. so this is technically as illegal as roms =\

Actualy no. This is the basis of BS on both hands.

[Cap'n 1time]

nintendo holds a patent on emulation of the gba. so this is technically as illegal as roms =\

i think that just related to the gp32.

[wraggster]

UPDATE--

Ars a member of <a href="http://forums.emufanatics.com/showthread.php?p=4420" target="_blank" >Emufanatics Forums</a> has posted some info about where this mysterious release originated:

<BLOCKQUOTE>The GBA emulator for PSP eventually was released!


First,I want to say my English is poor...as the author's Chinese is poor,too

Original thread(IN chinese):
http://bbs.emu-zone.org/showthread.php?t=296995
Please download the zipfile at the top.

Simple tanslation:
It's VBA's ported to PSP...The work is hard-_-b.
It's graph is done,but still a lot of bugs.
No sound.No save,either.
Please rename the romfile "rom.gba" and put it in the same folder of EBOOT.PBP.Otherwise it won't work

×＝B;○＝A;The other keys are all right...

The size of romfile must be under 16MB...
And PSP may hung up when loading romfile is failed or emulator is initializeng,please be careful after all.

The author is a japanese,but he released the emulator in a chinese forum...
So,I found the international cooperation in the emu field is quite interesting.
As an average emu player,I should do some thing what I can do--bring the news form the east for you.</BLOCKQUOTE>

[nexis2600]

i think that just related to the gp32.

Its related to a bunch of BS over a GBA emulator for zodiac that was for sale but never even once had a release for gba (at least to my knollage).

[Puerrican718]

Has anyone tried it out yet? How slow is it really at the moment. Nice to know a gba emu is already on the work when the single card xploit is released tommorrow. :)

[Jdemon]

:( Anyone get it working on 1.5? I've been doing so well up untill now with the EMU's :confused: but the menu screen just keeps coming up.

Still it's amazing that there even is a VBA for PSP :D

[Puerrican718]

Why not wait till tommorrow when they release the direct loader for the 1.5 Thats what i decided to do. Most likely wont even touch the emu till its more optimized like the snes. The only emu i see working full speed for me is the Doom port and i think the nes for some. Not taking the sound into consideration.

[Cap'n 1time]

Its related to a bunch of BS over a GBA emulator for zodiac that was for sale but never even once had a release for gba (at least to my knollage).

er, yeah, it was the zodiac. i think people made a much bigger deal over the whole thing than nessicary.

[nexis2600]

er, yeah, it was the zodiac. i think people made a much bigger deal over the whole thing than nessicary.

Yeah and I blame a lot of that on the group doing the emulator. I think a lot of it was BS on their part. They were hyping and taking payments on preorders. Its really stupid. Many GBA emu's have showed up since then and none of them have closed down. Even VBA was ported to the n-gage and you dont see news of a huge lawsuit filed by nintendo.

[quzar]

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Mar/bga20040316024286.htm

[Cap'n 1time]

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Mar/bga20040316024286.htm

bah, we all read that months ago. dosnt say much to any of us, except that nintendo pulled this out of their ass to stop some warez whores from purchasing a gba emulator for the zodiac... IF nintendo raises a finger against this then we will know for sure that nintendo is trying to prevent emulation of the gba on other consoles. can we please drop this before we send 1000 forums novices into the world saying that vba is completely illegal?

[slayer2psp]

good start loaded mario kart right up and yes i have a 1.5 its way to slow to play but hell its a start cant wait to see the next update

[Gamelver]

yeah, it's REALLY slow (too slow even for Advance Wars 2..)
but it definitely works :) (I've got a 1.5 psp, btw ;))

[ganon]

wtf cant wait for it to be more optimised

[aseddon130]

whoa ... was that the sound of nintendo turning in its grave ???? :o

[quzar]

bah, we all read that months ago. dosnt say much to any of us, except that nintendo pulled this out of their ass to stop some warez whores from purchasing a gba emulator for the zodiac... IF nintendo raises a finger against this then we will know for sure that nintendo is trying to prevent emulation of the gba on other consoles. can we please drop this before we send 1000 forums novices into the world saying that vba is completely illegal?

just because nintendo doesnt go knocking down the doors of everyone with NES roms does that mean it is any less legal?

[CHUCK67]

ok heres wat i did i downloaded vba for psp then i hooked up my psp to comp through usb i made a folder on mem stick called PSP-DEV i extracted the pbp file for vba using pbp unpacker and saved it in folder named psp-dev then i made another foler in the psp-dev folder named vbapsp i then put the rom pokemon emerald in the vbapsp folder and renamed it rom.gba. i tried and the thing loads and just goes back to the same spot please respond should i put the eboot.pbp file in the vbapsp folder too or what any help is appreciated

[Cap'n 1time]

just because nintendo doesnt go knocking down the doors of everyone with NES roms does that mean it is any less legal?

no im saying that they dont care, thus its a question of morals. me? I guess have no morals. I am not going to go around bitching about a release of somthing just because of some questionable action that accured months that no one has heard from since. why arnt you calling GPF a warez whore for porting VBA to DC? It's about the same concept isnt it?

[quzar]

no im saying that they dont care, thus its a question of morals. me? I guess have no morals. I am not going to go around bitching about a release of somthing just because of some questionable action that accured months that no one has heard from since. why arnt you calling GPF a warez whore for porting VBA to DC? It's about the same concept isnt it?

their patent applies specifically to handhelds, which makes perfect sense. A gba emulator for the dreamcast isnt gonna put nintendo under, because it would be the same as on PC, but a gba emulator on the psp(or any other handheld device) could have the potential to damage them. To me it has nothing to do with morals (recall the stuff that will sams said), it is strictly a question of it's legality.

[aseddon130]

their patent applies specifically to handhelds, which makes perfect sense. A gba emulator for the dreamcast isnt gonna put nintendo under, because it would be the same as on PC, but a gba emulator on the psp(or any other handheld device) could have the potential to damage them. To me it has nothing to do with morals (recall the stuff that will sams said), it is strictly a question of it's legality.

yea but ... who cares ???

GBA on PSP will be awesome, once its working fully that is. And even then it will not be perfect (i do hope i am wrong) :s

Sony will be saying they're gutted about Homebrew being done on the PSP, but in the consumers' eyes it makes the PSP an even better console over its competition ... hence, more sales :p so if i was Sony i would be happy :D

[CHUCK67]

ok heres wat i did i downloaded vba for psp then i hooked up my psp to comp through usb i made a folder on mem stick called PSP-DEV i extracted the pbp file for vba using pbp unpacker and saved it in folder named psp-dev then i made another foler in the psp-dev folder named vbapsp i then put the rom pokemon emerald in the vbapsp folder and renamed it rom.gba. i tried and the thing loads and just goes back to the same spot please respond should i put the eboot.pbp file in the vbapsp folder too or what any help is appreciated

[aseddon130]

read this CHUCK http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=6432 may help ya!

[quzar]

yea but ... who cares ???

GBA on PSP will be awesome, once its working fully that is. And even then it will not be perfect (i do hope i am wrong) :s

Sony will be saying they're gutted about Homebrew being done on the PSP, but in the consumers' eyes it makes the PSP an even better console over its competition ... hence, more sales :p so if i was Sony i would be happy :D

me, and the handfull of others who keep this all legal.

so basically you are saying that because it benefits sony it is ok? What if sony were to release an adapter that let you plug in gba carts to your psp? Nintendo would SUE THEIR ASSES OFF. Why? because they own the patent to gba emulation on a handheld device. The only difference here is that they can't really stop this in a court because once it's out it can't be stopped. If Nintendo wanted to, they could cite the same patent and take whoever it is that did this to court.

either way, i've said my piece. nobody has refuted the fact that it is illegal, and has only given the "who cares?" and "it doesn't matter." defenses. I'm not gonna lock this because it was posted by wraggster, but if any other mod here really wants to keep this clean and legal, they'll lock it.

[Omatic]

Well the problem is that Sony HAS to bitch about emus on their system. If not, then they'd look like they were condoning it. If they really, really cared, then this site would be down by now. Notice how torrent sites are being shot down as well as P2P sites. If Sony TRULY didn't want us to have it, they'd be destroying the emu sites left and right.

In my opinion, they're just doing it to look like they don't want it. In reality, they prolly don't care that much.


yea but ... who cares ???

GBA on PSP will be awesome, once its working fully that is. And even then it will not be perfect (i do hope i am wrong) :s

Sony will be saying they're gutted about Homebrew being done on the PSP, but in the consumers' eyes it makes the PSP an even better console over its competition ... hence, more sales :p so if i was Sony i would be happy :D

[Omatic]

I agree, it's illegal and all, but I don't care enough to stop. I don't emulate GBA games, and I won't until the next game boy comes out and the GBA is out of commission. I only play emulated games when I can't get them normally.

Lookit me! I have standards!!


me, and the handfull of others who keep this all legal.

so basically you are saying that because it benefits sony it is ok? What if sony were to release an adapter that let you plug in gba carts to your psp? Nintendo would SUE THEIR ASSES OFF. Why? because they own the patent to gba emulation on a handheld device. The only difference here is that they can't really stop this in a court because once it's out it can't be stopped. If Nintendo wanted to, they could cite the same patent and take whoever it is that did this to court.

either way, i've said my piece. nobody has refuted the fact that it is illegal, and has only given the "who cares?" and "it doesn't matter." defenses. I'm not gonna lock this because it was posted by wraggster, but if any other mod here really wants to keep this clean and legal, they'll lock it.

[Jdemon]

Well while this is kind of cool that they made it, but I will hold off on even trying to get it working for a while. Apparently it needs alot of work, and besides I have a GBA so what do I need a handheld GBA emulator for? I'm much more interested in the other older game system EMU's and of course the MAME :D

[Cap'n 1time]

Well the problem is that Sony HAS to bitch about emus on their system. If not, then they'd look like they were condoning it. If they really, really cared, then this site would be down by now. Notice how torrent sites are being shot down as well as P2P sites. If Sony TRULY didn't want us to have it, they'd be destroying the emu sites left and right.

In my opinion, they're just doing it to look like they don't want it. In reality, they prolly don't care that much.

its far more complicated than that. homebrew and emulators are completely legal so long as no one is using a stolen SDK for the psp or any system (which is why most xbox stuff is kind of illegal) then people can do whatever. This case, as I said, is more complicated, as nintendo has some kind of wacky patent on GBA emulation on handheld systems.

Anyways, sony dosnt really have anything at all to do with this. This is between the person(s) who ported VBA to the PSP and Nintendo.

q- its more or less you fault we are on this topic. your the one that brought it up.. hey I have an idea! why we are all legal huggly buddies lets ban lantus for useing the stolen xbox SDK!

[CHUCK67]

it says error game could not be started

[sora]

Ahhh! I can't seem to get any emulaters to work im running on 1.5. Do i need to download something else? I also keep getting the 80020001 error but i can't seem to find my manual someone please help! (Im kinda new to the emu stuff) :confused: (Sorry if it sounds like im complaining) And a lot of u are right about sony, i mean they're not trying very hard to shut down emu sites and if nintendo was out of commision they wouldn't have to worry about them very much (not that they actually worry anyway) :D

[Shinobe]

Well the problem is that Sony HAS to bitch about emus on their system. If not, then they'd look like they were condoning it. If they really, really cared, then this site would be down by now. Notice how torrent sites are being shot down as well as P2P sites. If Sony TRULY didn't want us to have it, they'd be destroying the emu sites left and right.

In my opinion, they're just doing it to look like they don't want it. In reality, they prolly don't care that much.

Here is my perspective on EMU:

Since the release of Xploit for PSP 1.5, a bigger slice of the general psp owners has access to literally thousands of games on their PSP.

Before being able to run EMUs on PSP, it usual sat at home as a paper weight. I'm a broke ass bitch and I gotta really love a game to buy it and so far there are only maybe 3 games that appeals to me, and they've already bored me to death after playing it so many times. The fact that I did get all these homebrews running on my psp made a HUGE difference on how I looked at my psp. I don't think my PSP has seen more action then the last 2 days since I got the thing...all my friends that didn't get a PSP has a reason to, I can play tetris and Mike Tyson's punch out on my psp how cool is that!!

A friend of mine basically has every ****ing nintendo game known to man, his collection of SNES games are somewhere in the 9 gb range and his NES collection has about 10,000 games.
If I gave him my psp, I dont think he'll have time to sleep and/or return my psp.

If I were nintendo, I'd pay people to write me some emu for DS, cause the only reason to get one is now being theaten by homebrews like VBA. (sure they have good DS games but compare to all those classic NES, GB, SNES games?)

(btw, the only reason I would ever want DS is cause of being able to play GBA games)

there really is no competition from the way I see it. As development moves forward and getting EMU to run isnt so "rocket science" for the average joe, Nintendo prob will have to "be destroying the emu sites left and right".

Lets not forget that its only been 4 months since the US release...the speed of this dev community for PSP is scary...very, very scary.

[Gamelver]

Lets not forget that its only been 4 months since the US release...the speed of this dev community for PSP is scary...very, very scary.
actually, it's technically been 6 months (released in Japan on December 12...I would know, I was there :D)....anyway, you're still right :p

[znamezsame]

Legality: I find it difficult to believe that anyone would try to enforce restrictions on the creation of non-harmful software such as emulators. It is much more likely that the theft of the actual roms is to be targeted. Look how many rom hosts encounter legal issues, and the fact that emulation sites have been up for years. Even VBA.

Morality: If you want to be moral, buy the game, and the original system, before you emulate it. Assuming they are still available. If they are not, I guess that automatically makes it moral ;)

[RedKing14CA]

Here is my perspective on EMU:

If I were nintendo, I'd pay people to write me some emu for DS, cause the only reason to get one is now being theaten by homebrews like VBA. (sure they have good DS games but compare to all those classic NES, GB, SNES games?)

(btw, the only reason I would ever want DS is cause of being able to play GBA games)

there really is no competition from the way I see it. As development moves forward and getting EMU to run isnt so "rocket science" for the average joe, Nintendo prob will have to "be destroying the emu sites left and right".
.

hmm it would seam as nintendo has already thought of this :D ... the revolution will be able to download "every nintendo game known to man" and its supppose to be able to wirelessly link to the revolution for file exchanging and such..... so i think they're going to make it so you can download "every nintendo game known to man" and put it on you DS, and maybe you will be able to put N64 games on it, since it has the capabilities... i'd sooo love to play F-Zero X on my nintendo ds, :rolleyes: wirelessly with like 20 ppl *drools*




Well the problem is that Sony HAS to bitch about emus on their system. If not, then they'd look like they were condoning it. If they really, really cared, then this site would be down by now. Notice how torrent sites are being shot down as well as P2P sites. If Sony TRULY didn't want us to have it, they'd be destroying the emu sites left and right.

In my opinion, they're just doing it to look like they don't want it. In reality, they prolly don't care that much
.


actually the reason they care (i think) is because if ppl have these emu's n such, they wont buy sony's games, and also, those hackers who went to college for 10 years to learn everything about computers can download video games, and play them off their memory sticks... so like... 20 ppl all over the worls are sending eachother's games to eachother, and sony is losing about 200$... oH nO!!! lol, and of course sony has to ruin every good thing, the new firmware only makes it so you cant play emu's nothing much else.... but when they release the usb keyboard, im going to HAVE to fownload the new firmware... unless (win?)___psp or psp0s comes out with usb keyboard support (that would be frikkan awsome!!!) then i would keep my 1.5 firmware....

[projectx58]

why does the emulator when selected through the psp it never loads? then restarts to main psp menu? on the % folder i have just the EBOOT.PBP and on the other folder i have the EBOOT.PBP and the DLOG and thats where i put the games.. but nothing? whats the problem? my emulator folder was named: VBAPSP

[projectx58]

oh yea and im using PSP 1.5

[projectx58]

why does the emulator when selected through the psp it never loads? then restarts to main psp menu? on the % folder i have just the EBOOT.PBP and on the other folder i have the EBOOT.PBP and the DLOG and thats where i put the games.. but nothing? whats the problem? my emulator folder was named: VBAPSP
oh yea and im using PSP 1.5

[Greensky]

Yeah, I'm having the exact same problem... it just takes you right back to the PSP home screen when you try to load it.

[CannedSoup]

You need to have the correct folder names and you cant use hide corrupt data on VBA.

[Jeisu]

Actually, your rom isn't named correctly. Rename it to rom.gba
That is Crucial to getting it to work and load the rom.

[Greensky]

Hmm, odd... I did rename the folder correctly and the rom file name is "1864 - The Legend of Zelda - The Minish Cap (U)(Independent).gba"

Still nothing works right.

[Greensky]

Err nevermind, I was stupid. I was using XPloit for the GBA emulator, which is the same thing that Projectx (above) was doing. There shouldn't be a % folder for VBAPSP, just go into the GAMES folder on your PSP directory, and create a new folder named VBAPSP, then just copy and paste the EBOOT file into the folder along with 1 .gba rom.

I still can't run a game though... it gives me the message "Game can not be started" or whatever. Maybe it's a bad ROM file... If anyone knows a good place to get Working GBA ROMS, please tell me!

UPDATE: I did find a good place for ROMS, and I know the ROM files are ok, but they still refuse to run on my PSP. they are all named .gba so I don't know what's wrong... I put them right into the VBAPSP folder next to the EBOOT file.

[Kingtj]

Rename the rom to rom.gba and make sure the game is kinda old.

[AnimeGods]

ok i'v made PSP/games/vbapsp then i put eboot.pbp and DLOG in there then i put rom.gba in there ok!! noow first of all how do i try to load it i went to game in main menu then memory stick and it says there are no games is that how you would load it? if not please tell me how

[Sauron96]

I'm still amazed this system hasn't been emulated better yet; it's extremely popular yet there is only one almost non-functioning emu...if a GBA is pretty much equal to a SNES then.......................connect the dots..........

[PSP_Newbie]

well, its might about equal in the "graphics" but the system hardware and architecture are much harder to emulate properly, plus i think the vba was simply a port of an existing emulator for the PC, which would make it run pretty unplayably as opposed to emulators built from the ground up specifically for the psp

[trew01]

uhhhh arent all these emulators for the psp ports? gens is, snes9x is, nesterj is, they run great so i dont think because its a port from the pc would that stop them from making a great gameboy advance emu for the psp.

[Cap'n 1time]

uhhhh arent all these emulators for the psp ports? gens is, snes9x is, nesterj is, they run great so i dont think because its a port from the pc would that stop them from making a great gameboy advance emu for the psp.

well you thought wrong. :p

[trew01]

well you thought wrong. :p


lol ok all knowing one :P do tell then how come i read up on these boards that they are ports? then that means the other people posting are also wrong. cant you atleast explain instead of saying well your wrong?

[Greensky]

*clears throat*


I did find a good place for ROMS, and I know the ROM files are ok, but they still refuse to run on my PSP. they are all named .gba so I don't know what's wrong... I put them right into the VBAPSP folder next to the EBOOT file.

[Kaiser]

lol ok all knowing one :P do tell then how come i read up on these boards that they are ports? then that means the other people posting are also wrong. cant you atleast explain instead of saying well your wrong?

Because the few that started as ports and are now have been optimized with different pieces of code that there barely the original anymore. the only real port I can think of Is UO SNES and despite being the best snes emulator still runs like crap in the face of Rin and PSP Genesis.

[Cap'n 1time]

uhhhh arent all these emulators for the psp ports? gens is, snes9x is, nesterj is, they run great so i dont think because its a port from the pc would that stop them from making a great gameboy advance emu for the psp.

what the big K said, plus th fact that your porting software that supports a certain type of hardware to somthing completely differant.

look at it this way.

you loose a little speed in emulation when you move from one type of hardware to the software emulation right?
well imagine stripping away that emulators platform and putting it on somthing completely differant.

hardware -> emulation on one platform that supports a type of hardware -> a new platform with differant hardware. Ports may take less time then creating somthing from the ground up... but as the software must be optimized to support a differant type of hardware it could take a while to give it half assed optimizations. It may never be done as sometimes the jobs may be very complexed. People get frusterated and they quit.

The point was, just because there are open sourced emulators for windows does not mean its a simple matter of putting them on the PSP.

[ataribob]

Because the few that started as ports and are now have been optimized with different pieces of code that there barely the original anymore. the only real port I can think of Is UO SNES and despite being the best snes emulator still runs like crap in the face of Rin and PSP Genesis.

That's funny.
If you know how to set the settings the Snes emu is running at 100%.
This is the first one ever to rum Super Mario RPG.
No copier could ever get that game to run.

Take your snes Emu
set it to 333
Frame Skip 2
Full screen BL

I have some copiers and this Uno Snes is at 100%

[petergriffin08]

do u need firmware 1.0 to use b/c i got 2.0 and it says the file is corrupted

[chronoswing]

Peter, you need firmware 1.0 or 1.5 to run homebrew, this has been covered a thousand and one times.

[ANDS]

That's funny.
If you know how to set the settings the Snes emu is running at 100%.
This is the first one ever to rum Super Mario RPG.
No copier could ever get that game to run.

Take your snes Emu
set it to 333
Frame Skip 2
Full screen BL

I have some copiers and this Uno Snes is at 100%

Hmm - that improves my performance a bit. . .but CHRONO TRIGGER still runs at 17FPS sometimes. A little sluggish, but works. What FPS should one be getting?

[Picanco]

:eek: I need help i cant access the vba what am I doing wrong?
please answer!!

[Picanco]

i need help i cant access the emulator it keeps going back to the psp home help me please

[ArchAngel]

CT for me works perfectly with the new SNES emulator, with fullscreen, 3Frameskip, and with transparancy but no sound gets me 20FPS, which is good considering the 3 Frame Skip.

[doughboi916]

come out wit a fukin emu that work good

[Mourningstar]

Why hasnt this been updated yet?

Is it dead?

[Cap'n 1time]

Why hasnt this been updated yet?

Is it dead?

well the original porter might have quit. I am sure you will see other releases some day soon. perhapes differant builds though. this build has proved that it might be possible to a degree... so im sure others will take interest to it.

[Mourningstar]

100% GBA emulation should be possible, right?

I dont understand why more people arent working on GBA emus.

[PSP_Newbie]

well, i heard somewhere that there's a big fat copyright on GBA emulation on a portable system, so maybe thats y nobody is working on it? or maybe contributed to the reason this guy quit?

[Cap'n 1time]

100% GBA emulation should be possible, right?

I dont understand why more people arent working on GBA emus.

that isnt exactly known yet... but probably more like 75%

[Mourningstar]

Ah, at least 75% is still playable. ;)

[RedKing14CA]

well since we have windows 95, shouldnt we be able to get a gba emulator for windows 95? i know if you can play starcraft, why not a gba emulator? (im pretty dumb)

edit- by the way, i have a friend mailing me a disk with windows 95 prepackaged all set for psp, because i couldnt find my windows 95 disk, but i found it, but im in crescent city, so its at home..... but when that cd arrives i should just beable to copy the folders to my memstick, and start it up... so i havent actually gotten to mess around with this new windows for psp yet...

and i was kinda wondering if windows 98 would work....?

well see you all on monday

[Mourningstar]

wELL ITS BECAUSE IF YOU TREAT THE psp JUST LIKE A pc...WELL A pc WITH A 333MHZ CPU AND 32MB RAM WOULDNT RUN GBA AT ALL.

a GOOD GBA EMU FOR PSP WOULD BE HARD AND TAKE A LOT OF OPTIMIZATION, NBUT IT IS POSSIBLE....

[Cap'n 1time]

i hate it when people look at things like this...

never EVER compare your psp or any console to your computer running windows or even linux for that matter (the only exception to that rule is xbox). you need to take into concideration that the psp uses a totally differant processor and handles things much differently from the way your pc does.

[DarkSayian]

anyone try the supposedly updated version of this GBA emulator? mine doesnt seem to wanna activate lol must be the eboot file or something but some guided assistance would be helpful ;)

[Mourningstar]

Nope, it probably doesnt work and its probably not an official update....

[ArugulaZ]

No, it works, all right. I just don't see why anyone would want to use it. It's really slow right now, and given the complexity of the Game Boy Advance hardware (it IS a 32-bit system, after all), I doubt that will ever change.

JR

[Gamming]

Ok i have tried and tried to get the emu on my psp... i get it on there and i shows up but when i go to open a thing pops up saing it can not be open. i have version 2.50 is that a problem. if some one can help me that would be great.

[Valiant]

I can help you Gamming,
1: turn off your psp
2: sit in meditation for a while wondering why you didnt browse through this website a month ago (heck even 2 weeks ago).
3: Look through the website and SEE what 2.5 does to your psp
4: If you are STILL not sure (or plain too lazy...then I will tell you blatantly)




Just like the 2.1 users, 2.5 users are SCREWED, wait until 2.5 is cracked (or EVER cracked at all...but of course the hacking of 2.0 was a shock to me but Sony appears determined)

BTW....how did you run into version 2.5? Are you in Japan? For if you are in a country ASIDE from Japan...then I would have to say you made a stupid mistake by upgrading. Unless you wanted that tv function

[Franzkill]

I'm here trying it out at work (used the gba game I am working on atm).

It's great. It takes up the full vertical section of the screen & it looks amazing.

I can't wait to see the src or an optimised version soon. I wonder if it's doing 333 yet or not.

--edit--

Note the rom must go "PSP/GAMES/VBAPSP/ROM.GBA"

Hi does the renamed rom have to be a zip file or a gba file originally. In other words should I just name the zipped file or unzip it?

[kabapu]

I'm having trouble with VBAPSP and SNES9X_TYL ...
I'm using Eboot Loader 0.9
When I try to load VBAPSP, I just get a black screen and after a few moments the PSP shuts down.

When I try to run the SNES emu, it flashes the loading screen a couple times then returns to the Eboot Loader program.

Any suggestions?

P.S. PSPGENESIS and DJSP are loading fine.

[Kaiser]

I'm having trouble with VBAPSP and SNES9X_TYL ...
I'm using Eboot Loader 0.9
When I try to load VBAPSP, I just get a black screen and after a few moments the PSP shuts down.

When I try to run the SNES emu, it flashes the loading screen a couple times then returns to the Eboot Loader program.

Any suggestions?

P.S. PSPGENESIS and DJSP are loading fine.

Check if VBA even works for Eboot loader v0.9 first. Which it doesn't. Next time check here (http://www.fanjita.org/psp_working.html) for all working eboots. Snes TYL however should be working fine.

[wero_ed]

I cant get it to work help

[fran_moron]

quiero saber como se instala???

[AKz]

It doesn't work in my PSP, it says: The game could not be started(80020001)

[John14]

I'm here trying it out at work (used the gba game I am working on atm).

It's great. It takes up the full vertical section of the screen & it looks amazing.

I can't wait to see the src or an optimised version soon. I wonder if it's doing 333 yet or not.

--edit--

Note the rom must go "PSP/GAMES/VBAPSP/ROM.GBA"

Ive got some questions. U need to downgrade to ver 1.5 for the emulator to work right? and should u unzip the rom file? right now im on ver 2.6 and the emulator is showing up but its saying it's corrupted when i try to start it. plz help me with my problems

thx

[Elsid]

And So It Begins...

[xxdrewxx]

can anyone tell me what to do when it just goes back to the home screen??

[Westsidepindh]

I have 2.6, is it supposed to still work?

[Kaiser]

No

[Cooe14]

Why are people even trying to use VBA? The other two are way better.

[kh2-sora]

ok so i changed the folder to vbapsp then i put in the eboot. thing and changed the rom to rom.gba and i put it in the game section and i got to it and click the game then the pic with the girl and it says file corruputed i dont understand whats going on can someone help?

[llChrNoll]

OMG! Can't believe the scene has come this far already! For a first release i'm amazed.

PSP Version 2.6
Can anyone tell me where to put the files imn the PSP. Also please tell me everything I need to know about installing VBA on PSP. Is there any other application needed? Thank you for your coperation.. I hope that someone can answer

[llChrNoll]

A port of the Game Boy Advance emulator <a href="http://vba.ngemu.com/" target="_blank" >Visual Boy Advance</a> has been released on the PSP by a Japanese Coder via the PSP Wiki site, the emulator has no Sound and Plays rather slow, it also can load roms up to 16 mb in size. Heres some screenshots :

<img src="http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/files/vba00.JPG">

<img src="http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/files/vba102.JPG">

More screenshots and the download of this excellent release for the PSP Scene can be found here http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/vbapsp.shtml
PSP Version 2.6

Can anyone tell me where to put the files imn the PSP. Also please tell me everything I need to know about installing VBA on PSP. Is there any other application needed? Thank you for your coperation.. I hope that someone can answer it.
I already put the file in the folder, but when I am trying to play the game a meesage is prompted :
The game cannot be started.
The data is corrupted.

[NoQuarter]

If possible you should downgrade to 1.5 and use the gpsp, it's the best GBA emulator for the psp :)
Provided your motherboard isn't a ta-082!
Of course if it is a ta-082 you can reverse devhook it.

[quzar]

Don't bump old threads.