gpSP 0.9 - GBA Emulator for the PSP (full speed)

**tragedie** · December 15th, 2006, 23:00

Originally Posted by gr42178

Why is it that you cant play gameboy color/gameboy games? You can do it on a regular gba??? Not that it matters, there are emulators for them, I was just curious why they dont work.

I guess I could have just said that GB/GBC and GBA speak different languages to the hardware.

Its pulled from a different part of the hardware. GB and GBC games were programmed in Z80, the same as your TI-82 / 83 / 84 / 85 series calculators, and switched over to the Zilog processor when an older game was used. Gameboy Advance titles do not use this technology (it came out in 1976). Backwards compatibility rarely runs natively on newer machines. The same is true for PlayStation and XBox, in order to run older software, they need to switch to a different package whether it be a separate processor or through software emulation.

Yeah, I think we've all pretty much agreed that those nasty emails are coming from those pre-pubescent little buggers. I'm pretty sure that 13 year old kid isn't going to sue. If he had the money for a lawyer, I think he'd have enough to get a Gameboy Advance or fifty with some money left over for a car they can't drive. I wouldn't pay them much attention, they're going through an awkard stage in life. But if you see one in the street, hitting one is worth 10 points. (Note: Please do not commit vehicular homocide.)

**Tinnus** · December 15th, 2006, 23:25

The GBA has GBC hardware to take care of running GBC games.

What happens is that some (well, a lot) of GBA games use the GBC sound chip (included in the GBA) to generate part of their sound. So a GBA emulator needs to emulate the GBC sound hardware as well--why you see people talking about "GBC sound". It's not sound in GBC games, but rather sounds fron GBA games that use the GBC sound chip

**demiansan** · December 15th, 2006, 23:58

Be in peace, master of the gpSP.

you made this little diamond,
You polished IT with your skills,
YOU make IT SHINE,
YOU WILL BE the ONE,
THE GPSP ONLY CREATOR.

And everybody knew/knows/will know that for sure.

THANK YOU REALLY MUCH.

**siulmagic** · December 15th, 2006, 23:59

amazing release and agian man dont listen to that ginorant people just bare with ther eignorance enyways your a great coder man you mad emy gba dream come true keep up the good work

**benn** · December 16th, 2006, 00:20

dude you rock. keep building man. you got the plan. thanks for keeping faith with all those who appreciate what you doing for us.

**gunntims0103** · December 16th, 2006, 00:43

OMG.

I just tried this update and im sorry to say i ran into a ton of problems.

KH:COM doesnt work anymore, well it gets about 10 secs into the intro video then it freezes.

Also when i actually ran my bios to see if it was running okay, i got a crash error.

Whats going on. Im using the same bios and the same KH:COM as i did since exophases first release and now its not working.

I think il go back to 0.8

**brasssmunky** · December 16th, 2006, 00:58

seriously
i cant thank you enough..
i mean, i had saved 150 bucks
and was gonna get a DS, primarily for th:thumbup: e GBA games..
like 2 days before i was gonna go to town
(no bestbuy or n e thing in my little town)
your emulator released on dcemu
with the sight that it ran some games full speed
i decided to hold off on that DS
and i couldnt be happier
instead of a DS i just bought a 2 gig stick and kept the rest for random stuff
thank you
you have changed my gaming life.