Posted Jul 03, 2006 at 01:48PM by Pranav T Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, News, Gameboy Advance Tags: Zx-81, Gameboy Advance, Exploit, GBA, PSPVBA
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PSPVBA


zx81 is my favorite developer. And it's for a reason. This guy simply doesn't know how to stop once he gets rolling. He's done it before with countless emulators, and now, he's doing it again with the GBA emulator, in the way only he can.

Update after update after update! The GBA emulator, PSPVBA has received another big update! I'd assume that most of you are familiar with his speed. So let's cut to the chase, shall we? The emulator has received another boost. I'll let him do the explanation in the changelog:
  • Emulator menu is now directly available on startup
  • Add turbo modes, but it can result in graphic artifacts but you can win up to 20% ! (turbo modes don't work for all games)
  • Add ARM tick average change option (can be used to increase speed)
  • The file default.kbd (keyboard mapping) is now loaded on startup
  • Screenshots are now save in BMP format instead of PNG (less memory consuming, so it should not freeze your PSP).
  • Many more bug fixes
And as usual, the application is released under the GPL license, which means that the source is bundled along. Plus, there are 2 separate versions, one for 1.5 and the other for 2.0 and above.

One note of caution though, the emulator doesn't work on 2.0 using the TIFF exploit. If you're running it on 2.0 or above, you'll need to use the GTA exploit.

Download Link : [PSPVBA: Gameboy Advance Emulator v1.0.4]
View : [Forum Release Thread]


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   by DBsummit - 2006-07-03
 » cool

first?

   by sweet (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » sweet

sweet

   by Nick (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » problems

dont know if it is me, but i cant get it to download.

   by Nick (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » nevermind

disregard my download post, i got it to work

   by core tactic (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » See? Told you!

I said that we'd get 2 more releases this week!

   by Phloem (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Oh Yeah!

Good work! Keep it coming!

   by Ranmax09 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » YAY :D

I can't wait for this emulator to run at full speed!
Gonna play all the Mario's and legacy of goku :D

   by meeee (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » PLEASE READ ZX-81

great release thanks alot games are going great now with all the messing around in the options but may you get games over like 4 mb to work with iut though i would like to play more games but thanks anyway i really appreciate this and thanks for constant updates

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   by Not You! (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » lots of updates

Can't he like.. wait with the update until it's version 1.1 or something? I see this news AT LEAST ONCE EVERY fricking week.

   by Cool (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Though

Have aldrady played most GBAgames with my GBA and flashcard(s), but it always nice to know you can have them on your PSP.

and 4mb rom was pretty much standard for GBAroms that was first released, its about 32Mbit. Biggest rom to GBA that does exist today is 256Mbit (32mb). But I think it exist one ROM that is bigger, 512Mbit (64mb), was some *****ty Sims (bustin out) game.

   by word (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » fsdgf

yea but alot of games i have are around 16 mb and dont run and give me a black screen

   by zx-81 - 2006-07-03
 » lol

@10: You're the first asking me not to release everyday :P

@all: Thanks ! :D

   by tank (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » AWESOME

i love u man! ur the best and u should keep improving it, cuz everything u attempt to do, u succeed!

   by dipset (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » word

zx81 i have a question im 16 would it be to late for me to try to get into coding and where would i start to learn stuff like that

   by lklelvliln - 2006-07-03
 » Kinda Mean

This is a quote from the article. "This guy simply doesn't know how to stop once he gets rolling. "

   by zx-81 - 2006-07-03
 » :)

@12: Try unzipped version ?

@14: Thx :D

@15: ask your question in a PSP forum, many coders should answer you, better than me :)

   by ali (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » nice

speed seems the same for me. But dont argue about it since it reequires a lot of work.....but then again.....if there is a n64 emulator......it should not be long for a full speed version.

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   by ASTROPUNK (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » GREAT WORK

Keep up the great work zx-81. Hey lklelvliln, how was that comment kinda mean? Sounds like a COMPLIMENT TO ME.

   by Anonymous Coward (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Yep

Yeah, you should try to release updates less frequently. Like say you found this stuff out, well, don't release it yet. Find other improvements to it, then release that update or an update after that. Because then people would have to keep downloading and uploading the emulator to their PSP then getting the ROMs every time an update comes out (which is like every week or more!). Hope you get what I'm saying. Just a suggestion though.

   by André (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Awesome!

Great work zx-81.

Some people may never write it down or tell you anything, but I'm sure your work is highly appreciated everywhere!

If I ever see this running at full speed I'll be one of the happiest men on Earth. Really!

I hope you continue your brilliant work! Keep up the releases ;)

I'll be here telling my mates how great this is.

PS: I'll be joining the forums soon.

   by Bionic - 2006-07-03
 » to nr.21

Just let him do his thing will ya? This way he keeps himself in the spotlight. All the luck in the world to you, ZX-81!

   by yourdaddy (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » hels yea

***** yea zx-81 is *****ing awsome i can finally play mother 3 (translated to english) in my psp comfortably
hels yea

   by NRG (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Nice!

Thanks a lot zx-81!! Like 23, I wish you all the luck in the world!!

   by Soban (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Updates!

Great work zx-81! I for one appreciate the regular updates. Almost reminds me of y :D .

   by eggwonder - 2006-07-03
 » uh...

uhh #21 im confuzzled... why do u have to keep dowloading the roms

heres an idea for you... dont delete the roms... just put the new version in over the old that way all of your roms,keyboards,savestates and all of your screenshots will still be there and just the files that were changed would be different and u could start it up and run all of your roms with their savestates.

btw great work from what the article says and keep it up. ill test it out as soon as i get my psp back(downgraded it saturday afternoon... got grounded sunday morning for not knowing how to tie a tie.)

   by jonas (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » hmm

does pokemon fr work now?

   by Uhyve - 2006-07-03
 » Hmmmm...

Nice update. I don't know why people keep saying that they can't get ROMs over a certain size to work. Practically every ROM I've tried works (except Kingdom Hearts), you're not running them zipped are you?

#21: I've got an idea, if you get tired of downloading your ROMs every time an update is released, maybe you should just... like.... not delete them or something....

I for one, love the updates, it's not like it takes a long time to upload them to the PSP or anything. Kudos zx-81.

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   by FLai - 2006-07-03
 » .

ok, where is the n64 emulator?! i can't wait for it. don't really care about GBA.....

   by w000t (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » Cool!

This is pretty cool, but i hope this doesnt become like the snesY emulator, there was a release every day! but the only updates were a few graphic and a few sound fixes, i remember that there were like 32 releases, but the speed was pretty bad...
I hope this guy keeps working on this, i would love to have a full speed gba emulator.

   by ElAdriano (Unregistered) - 2006-07-03
 » You're the best!

Great job ZX-81!



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