PSPVBA: GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP v1.0.1 (beta)

**nexus68** · June 26th, 2006, 11:08

Hi Hi zx-81, A French guy, hero of American and English people. Very amusing.

Du tres bon boulot comme toujours, mais Ã* quand l'Amiga

**Lodis** · June 26th, 2006, 11:16

Originally Posted by acn010

dude, so whats the purpose of the psp emulation for......
also, some people already has a DS, but its just collecting dust such as mine

I have a DS Lite and it isn't collecting dust at all. I enjoy playing Advance Wars Dual Strike, Ultimate Spiderman, Mario Partners in Time and I also use it to play a couple of the great GBA games like Fire Emblem, Zelda and Advance Wars. I love it along side my Psp, great for trips too!!

I am still really excited about this GBA emulator though, more so due to the really good reputation Zx has. If it was some unknown dev who just announced this GBA I wouldn't have even batted an eye lid since I have seen so many GBA emulators started and just dropped.

There must be something very difficult about programming a GBA emulator on the Psp aside from the well known difficulties in general. At first glance, one would think it easier to program a GBA emulator as opposed to N64 but I guess it comes down to how simular the architecture of the platform you are emulating are. At this stage I think we all need to be realistic. I have already seen alot of comments in different threads saying ''the GBA emulator will be full speed in no time''

Now as much as I would love this feat to occur, I doubt it will happen anytime soon but I hope I am proved wrong. Keep up the good work Zx, I really look forward to whenever your next release is since this will give some idea of how much you think you can optimise and improve.

**.:PSP1.0:.** · June 26th, 2006, 11:26

Truely amazing!

Thank you ZX-81 for all your hard work and dedication.. I see this new gba emulator as a huge step forward in terms of speed.. Keep up the good work ZX-81! It is muchly appreciated by all of us here!

**zx-81** · June 26th, 2006, 11:35

Originally Posted by nexus68

Hi Hi zx-81, A French guy, hero of American and English people. Very amusing.

Du tres bon boulot comme toujours, mais Ã* quand l'Amiga

LOL

**zx-81** · June 26th, 2006, 11:42

Originally Posted by disturbed19

hey zx-81 i have just one question. are u going to have screen smoothing in the next release?

This is a first beta, and i focus only on CPU speed. Screen smoothing etc .. are CPU consuming, but i will add more render options (in particular, one mode where the screen ratio is preserved).

Originally Posted by disturbed19

bcuz when u have it on full screen it looks all stretched out, like small blocks. i also have just a few more questions.

1.how long do u think it will take for this emulator to have good sound with decent speed?

The time needed lol ....

Originally Posted by disturbed19

2.how long r u planning on working on this emulator for?

The time required.

Originally Posted by disturbed19

3.are u currently working on any othere projects besides this one?

Only minor updates to other emulators i've already ported ... i will may be release a new version for each of them, with bug fix and minor features ... But i'm working now 90% of my spare time on PSPVBA.

**Hungry Horace** · June 26th, 2006, 11:54

zx-81 continues an excellent run of emualtor releases.... just a shame this one happens to be for the most conole-fan-boy-wankish system there is.... (not offence GBA owners :P )

there are other systems i'd rather see zx-81 work on, which wouldnt bring about such grovelling and attract a billion posters so quickly.

i suppose my main beef with the GBA emulator is just how many people have "demanded" it from coders - rather than just wait for someone with the talents (such as zx has) to decide to work on one.

doenst stop it being good work, it wasjust cooler when zx was working on 8-bit systems.... hehe. (ok - i'd take 16 bt if it were a decent amiga emu'!)

**qaopjlll** · June 26th, 2006, 12:12

Originally Posted by zx-81

@Voltron: i needn't money (only if you want to offer me a drink lol). I develop on 2.5FW because i want to be sure my emulator ports will work on all FW ...

Does the GTA exploit work using DevHook 0.41? If it does, then you should "upgrade" to a 1.50 PSP.