VBA 1.7.2 port for Gamecube and Wii

May 28th, 2008

Posted by king_td

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emu_kidid has updated the port for Visual Boy Advance which nows features Front SD loading. Great Job emu_kidid

I decided that I would do a few little minor additions to this emulator before I dropped it totally from my list and so here’s the results.

Wii Port

  • Wiimote / Classic Controller / Gamecube Pad support
  • Front-SD ROM Loading
  • Front-SD SRAM Saving and Loading
  • MEM2 ROM Storage for fast access
  • In-game Menu with ability to exit to loader (Home button)
  • Auto frame skip for those core heavy games

GC Port

  • SDGecko ROM Loading
  • SDGecko SRAM Saving and Loading
  • In-game Menu with ability to exit to loader (X+Y)
  • Auto frame skip to give you the illusion of full FPS

Please note, there’s not much of a GUI if anything. The only way you can load another ROM is to exit to the loader through the in-game menu or simply reload the DOL.

Please note, this is coded in PAL60, if you change it you will probably mess up the timing and things will go horribly wrong due to frame-skip relying on this.

Roms must be placed in /VBA/ROMS/ and cannot be compressed.
Saves will be placed in /VBA/SAVES/ and will automatically be loaded if they exist.
The GBA BIOS file is to be placed in /VBA/BIOS/BIOS.GBA.

If you want to use a Wiimote/Classic Controller, turn it on during the ROM selection menu for it to be detected.

Full source code is included. You will need to wait until the current libOGC CVS is updated to devkitpro r15 and actually working. I compiled using a modified devkitPro r14 and libogc from CVS. Use the pre-compiled GBA.o (done with level2 optimizations) if you wish to compile this software again. (GBA.d will need to be modified) This is a messy build process but it’s the only way to get it working for now.

Wii/GC ports by: emu_kidid,
Original Gamecube port: softdev.
VBA by Forgotten (http://vba.ngemu.com/)
libOGC/devKitPro by shagkur/Wintermute.

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3 Comments

  1. nedthehead on 28.05.2008 at 17:38 (Reply)

    Now we need an emulator that runs GB-GBA games… I hate having 2 seperate emulators.
    This is still win though. Pokémon Sapphire here I come!

  2. Mike on 30.05.2008 at 12:34 (Reply)

    This is really cool!! even tho it is still alittle messy…especially around the sound and speed area.. everything seems to move really fast. still it is a pretty decent build. THANKS!!!

  3. PiercedDooD on 30.05.2008 at 13:57 (Reply)

    Ok, now i need one that works on my NTSC Wii ¬¬

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