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XioN980
June 1st, 2006, 06:55
Firstly, i know gba emulators for the psp have been suggested before and that coders used to (or could still be) working on a GBA emulator. But perhaps someone should try an emulator other than VBA? Something like Boycott Advance or Dream GBA. Let me know what you think:D
Cooe14
June 1st, 2006, 07:06
GBA Emulator for PSP isn't half bad, it runs most games decently.
Hawkeyefile
June 1st, 2006, 09:30
it runs most guns like crap. but i think that emulators work best on the psp if you build them from the ground up.
XioN980
June 1st, 2006, 09:52
Yeah i know the current emulator is ok, it just seems everyone is dead set on porting VBA, it is the best one on pc but probably the hardest to code
yaustar
June 1st, 2006, 10:50
Couldn't find source to either of them.
XioN980
June 2nd, 2006, 07:56
Yeah but theres an even simpler one (i don't know if that has scource ou there) NO$GBA
yaustar
June 2nd, 2006, 08:14
No$GBA is not open source. It is primary a developers tool for debugging purposes that you have to pay (a lot) of money for and no, it isn't simple in the slightest.
XioN980
June 2nd, 2006, 13:32
Fair enough, calm down :D
yaustar
June 2nd, 2006, 14:00
Calm down from...? The response was purely factual.
PsychoSync
June 2nd, 2006, 18:23
The only other GBA emu i found that could maybe be ported (i'm not a coder so i'm not sure..) because the source code is available is: CowBite.
yaustar
June 2nd, 2006, 20:42
Again, the emulator was built as a debugging tool, not for speed. It will be slower then VBA.
Cap'n 1time
June 2nd, 2006, 20:57
man.. if only someone made a machine that played gba games.. on the go. anywhere... with a decent battery life... fortunately a device like this dosnt exist so I guess we will have to keep using our current gba machines...
Zion
June 2nd, 2006, 22:29
Cool pic!
Cap'n 1time
June 2nd, 2006, 23:38
Cool pic!

I guess. its amazing what you can accomplish in 2 seconds of photoshop :)
XioN980
June 23rd, 2006, 09:54
Ok i found another open source GBA emulator: Creem, heres the link to the scource if anyone is interested in having a look.........


http://www.zophar.net/gba.html


:D
yaustar
June 23rd, 2006, 13:44
Can't even find a precompiled version of the emulator to try. Its an old dead project.

Looked through some of the code and it looks like it uses DirectDraw or DirectX. Rewrite that code and yes it should be possible to port. Will it be worth it, probably not. A GBA emulator for the PSP ideally needs to be rewritten from scratch to et any speed out.
acn010
June 23rd, 2006, 16:28
meh, true, it has to be by scractch of gfx code or replace , gba emulator pc uses DirectDraw, Direct3D, OpenGL and yes even some uses DirectX