Visual Troy Advance v1.0

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April 2nd, 2005, 02:09
wraggster

Visual Troy Advance v1.0

<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.
April 2nd, 2005, 02:35
wraggster

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
April 2nd, 2005, 02:42
obelisk

woooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooo!
April 2nd, 2005, 04:01
curt_grymala

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?
April 2nd, 2005, 09:41
wraggster

not likely :)

joke releases i dont do
April 2nd, 2005, 10:30
wraggster

now we could do with someone with asm skills to push the emu further
April 2nd, 2005, 11:45
quzar

if only....
April 2nd, 2005, 12:12
scrabbus

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...!
April 2nd, 2005, 12:19
DCDayDreamer

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!.
April 2nd, 2005, 17:47
Christuserloeser

That's great! I'll give it a burn too :)
April 2nd, 2005, 18:17
TyBO

It's very impressive that someone managed to get GBA to run on our beloved Dreamcasts. Thank you Troy!
April 3rd, 2005, 01:00
Zombie667

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
April 3rd, 2005, 10:38
obelisk

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.
April 3rd, 2005, 11:18
obelisk

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.
April 6th, 2005, 03:32
Dawson

Not Working

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
April 6th, 2005, 11:11
Darksaviour69

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
April 10th, 2005, 21:21
SiZiOUS

I have created a video, where i'm playing Dangerous Xmas, a free game from Spoutnick Team.

It's very playable ;)

Warning : Please decrease the volume from your speakers.
April 10th, 2005, 22:04
GPF

Quote:

Originally Posted by SiZiOUS

I have created a video, where i'm playing Dangerous Xmas, a free game from Spoutnick Team.

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
April 10th, 2005, 22:10
SiZiOUS

Quote:

Also Happy Birthday Sizious

Thanks :)
April 17th, 2005, 11:51
Starscream

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.
April 17th, 2005, 12:58
quzar

one of the only open source gba emulators that also happens to be running on lesser systems and happens to use SDL
June 6th, 2005, 23:32
GPF

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starscream

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
June 6th, 2005, 23:38
SiZiOUS

http://boycottadvance.emuunlim.com/index.html

It seems to be portable and free. It was written by a french, Julien 'Gollum' Frelat.
June 7th, 2005, 02:03
GPF

Quote:

Originally Posted by SiZiOUS

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