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wraggster
April 2nd, 2005, 02:09
<a href="http://storm-studios.net/GPF/" target="_blank" >GPF (Troy Davis)</a> has tonight given me the honor of releasing the worlds first Game Boy Advance Emulator (also plays Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Mono games) for the Dreamcast Console.

The emulator is a port of Visual Boy Advance which was in turn ported to the GP32 by Chui and then Troy Davis ported the emulator to the Dreamcast Console.

The release comes in plain, and a rom image downloads and also the source code is available for anyone to carry this project onto greater heights.

heres some info from this release:

<blockquote>Colors for gbc are not right
you can only load 1 rom per session, locks up if you return to menu and try to start a second rom
Sound is not quite right either, clicks and sputters occasionally disable sound fixes that :)</blockquote>

<img src="http://www.dcemu.co.uk/splashVTA.jpg" width="216" height="180">

Download the first GBA emulator for the Dreamcast from <a href="http://www.dcemu.co.uk/gbaemu.shtml" target="_blank" >Here</a>. (Emulator is not on GPFs website)

Please give feedback on compatibility etc.
wraggster
April 2nd, 2005, 02:35
its a great release but the faster version wouldnt work tonight so we had to go with a 4 month old build, but at least it gives you something to whet your appettite
obelisk
April 2nd, 2005, 02:42
woooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooo!
curt_grymala
April 2nd, 2005, 04:01
Holy crap. How did I miss this?

Very cool. I just hope that people appreciate it for what it does, and don't get all upset about everything it doesn't do.

EDIT - Wait a sec. I just realized that this was posted on April Fools Day. Is this a joke?
wraggster
April 2nd, 2005, 09:41
not likely :)

joke releases i dont do
wraggster
April 2nd, 2005, 10:30
now we could do with someone with asm skills to push the emu further
quzar
April 2nd, 2005, 11:45
if only....
scrabbus
April 2nd, 2005, 12:12
yep...There must be someone out there with the moxie, but ASM skills are highly sought after in the commercial sector, but you never know...!
DCDayDreamer
April 2nd, 2005, 12:19
I'm always thankful for something new to test and play (no matter how slow or buggy), I'm off to burn a CDR - many thanks GPF!.
Christuserloeser
April 2nd, 2005, 17:47
That's great! I'll give it a burn too :)
TyBO
April 2nd, 2005, 18:17
It's very impressive that someone managed to get GBA to run on our beloved Dreamcasts. Thank you Troy!
Zombie667
April 3rd, 2005, 01:00
I been waiting for an emu like this for a long long time.

So far I have only tried 2 GBA Roms

Dragonball Z Buu's Fury (Working)
One of the GBA Pokemon games (Not Working)

I Just Hope someone else picks up this project
obelisk
April 3rd, 2005, 10:38
i tried making it into a sbi file, no luck here. 4 coasters, maybe i'll go for 6, but im not sure. anyone else have any luck, please say.
obelisk
April 3rd, 2005, 11:18
i skipped sbi attempts, the thing crashed as an abi for me, so i went to the preloaded version w/ the pd stuff. it is real, thank you gpf. i know in the future this lil' gem will become excellent! thanks for all yr hard work.
Dawson
April 6th, 2005, 03:32
Hi yall.

I got the emulator to burn and run. But only tried two games.

Final Fantasy Tatics GBA (not working)
and
Advance Wars 2 GBA (not working)

Maybe there is a Rom size limit?
I think I read about that in a post a long time ago. What would be the limit?

Thank GPF
Darksaviour69
April 6th, 2005, 11:11
the smaller the better! ;0

But seriously the dc has 16mb of ram so at the very least less than that, but it just depends how much ram the emu is useing... i would guess the size limit would be 12mb.... just a guess... i'm sure he has it posted somewhere
SiZiOUS
April 10th, 2005, 21:21
I have created a video (http://sbibuilder.dc-france.com/bordel/DangerousXmas.avi), where i'm playing Dangerous Xmas (http://www.deconstruction.f9.co.uk/rick/rickxmas.htm), a free game from Spoutnick Team (http://spoutnick.free.fr/).

It's very playable ;)

Warning : Please decrease the volume from your speakers.
GPF
April 10th, 2005, 22:04
I have created a video (http://sbibuilder.dc-france.com/bordel/DangerousXmas.avi), where i'm playing Dangerous Xmas (http://www.deconstruction.f9.co.uk/rick/rickxmas.htm), a free game from Spoutnick Team (http://spoutnick.free.fr/).

It's very playable ;)

Warning : Please decrease the volume from your speakers.


Cool Video :) Yeah DangerousXmas is pretty much the only thing I generally test.

Also Happy Birthday Sizious

Troy
SiZiOUS
April 10th, 2005, 22:10
Also Happy Birthday Sizious

Thanks :)
Starscream
April 17th, 2005, 11:51
What's the reason for choosing VBA ? I mean, use this emu myself, but is it the speed, compatibility, or other reasons for choosing to port this and not other GBA emulators? I'm just curious.
quzar
April 17th, 2005, 12:58
one of the only open source gba emulators that also happens to be running on lesser systems and happens to use SDL
GPF
June 6th, 2005, 23:32
What's the reason for choosing VBA ? I mean, use this emu myself, but is it the speed, compatibility, or other reasons for choosing to port this and not other GBA emulators? I'm just curious.

Portability of the sourcecode and I am not aware of any other portable GBA emulators.

Troy
SiZiOUS
June 6th, 2005, 23:38
http://boycottadvance.emuunlim.com/index.html

It seems to be portable and free. It was written by a french, Julien 'Gollum' Frelat.
GPF
June 7th, 2005, 02:03
http://boycottadvance.emuunlim.com/index.html

It seems to be portable and free. It was written by a french, Julien 'Gollum' Frelat.

Its portable, but according to what I can find on the website its not opensource and wouldnt be any better than VBA according to someones post about porting it to the Ngage.

Troy