PSP GBA v1.0

[slayer2psp]

most gba roms are from 1mb to 12mb packed and this does support zipped roms its still real slow but better then the last one lets hope they keep working on it. good start though

[Valiant]

yeah it is a real good start, wonder if this will ever get to high enough speeds to play kirby games XD.

Super Robot Wars J works for this emu so I am rather happy for I merely wanted this emu for this serie (as well as other esteemed titles ^^)

[ddblue]

I was a little unclear; exactly how well does it run Pokemon Emerald? And does it emulate sound as well or no?

[Zaibach333]

this is a great advancement, I'm sure we'd all like to be playing our psone games but gba is a very good handheld. not having to carry it around, cause the psp is far superior, would be awesome.

I wish I could be more of help but I don't know the first thing about the code that drives those emulators.

[PSP_Newbie]

its only an initial release, but its still very impressive
the sound doesnt really work, and its still not fast enough to have most games playable, but its a wonderful start

Zaibach333.....your sig....its so........mesmerizing.........cant.........look... ......away..................................

[pkmusicmaker]

I'll be thrilled if an update of this emulator comes out, since I waited months for an update of the VBA. By the way, did anyone else notice if you switch the widescreen stretch view to the regular full view it keeps the options screen in the background? Looks really funny, hope thats the first to go.

[ap0calypse]

I had a late night testing session tonight I was keen to see if any gba games will run at full speed!
So... here is a list of roms that boot up but most have speed issues (Not bad for an initial release though!):
Note: All roms were zipped.

GBAPSP test settings:

Full Screen (16:9)
Sound off (very buggy)
Max Frame Skip 2 (tested 0 also to check the true speed)
Cpu Clock 333Mhz
Running from PSP battery.


Game Name? Did it Boot? Speed Percentage? Should you bother?

Medal of Honor Infiltrator Yes 50% Nope, still too slow. Very choppy.

Advance Wars Yes 75% Maybe Its not bad (because its turn based), but still slow. (Stupid training pissed me off!)

Dragonball Z Supersonic Warriors Yes 60% Nope, way too slow for a fighting game

Megaman Battle Network 2 Yes 60% Nope, too slow.

Pokemon Fire Red (English Trans) No, stupid rom made my psp crash!

Super Bust a Move Yes 90% Yeah its runs well enough to play (dev must have used this rom to test the emu maybe)

Tony Hawks Underground Yes 70% Maybe, a bit slow still but its like skating in slow motion replay. The Menus were 100% but ingame 70%. Test this one yourself

Bomberman Tournament Yes 50% No, too slow. Bombs take about 10 secs too blow. (thats 1 mississippi, 2, mississippi, 3, mississippi... hahahaha! don't even bother)

Bruce Lee: Return of the Legend Yes 80% Not bad its playable, still a little slow (choppy) but not too bad Wayah!!!!!!

Crash Bandicoot Yes 80% Ran OK, its playable still though a little slow.

Harry Potter (Philosophers Stone) Yes 70% No, still too slow. Try if your a fan, otherwise dont bother.

Jackie Chan Adventures Yes 70% Nope, still too slow. Reminded me of bullet time in the matrix...

Sword of Mana Yes Battery ran out... haha Seemed slow through the dream sequence at the start...

Overall its great to see so many working roms, the only issue i've had with all these (Except stupid Pokemon) has been speed and sound, this is excellent for its debut. I'd like to say to the developer congrats, excellent work. Hopefully with the next release a major speed increase and we'll all have a working GBA emulator for our PSP's. Im off to try some of the roms on external power, i'll post again if any improvements...

[D-Boy]

VERY nice work mate, don't listen to the negatives this is the first "real" emu for gba and it shows nice potential. No offense to the other emu intended

[Mr.Modem]

A very nice emu although it's too slow right now. I'm waiting for future releases!

[PSmonkey]

Tips & Tricks for you guys from a Comercial GBA Coder.

1) Disable Sound in the emulator
2) Disable Sound in the actual game (if only volume bars, set to zero).
3) If given the option set the sound to mono/monoral.

So why all this? Well first and formost, the gba lacks a sound processor so everything is done by the cpu. Not all but quite a few games will null all sound processing when the volume is zero. So at the same time your actualy causing the cpu to run less which will help speed up the gba emu a fraction.

Again not all games does this make an improvement but on some you will notice a slight framerate improvement which should help make things a bit more playable at a frameskip of 4.