When I start them, I get four rectangles and "Press Start." Then it stops responding. I've tried them with a few versions including the newest, r1084.

Edit:

Sonic Advance


Sonic Advance 2


They work on VBA 1.8 Beta 3.

I'm sorry for the lack of pics before. I thought it was supposed to go in the compatibility forum since the games don't work at all. It doesn't say to post pics there.

not a valid bug report

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VBA-M | NGOHQ | Post Impact Productions | TNHW | XBCD 0.2.7

After further testing, I found out that this bug only happens when you're using a bios and enable "Skip Bios Logo"

skipping the bios prevents the gba core from properly setting its gfx state

VBA-M | NGOHQ | Post Impact Productions | TNHW | XBCD 0.2.7

This is expected AP behavior, specifically it skips boot init test of the link hardware.

VBA-M | NGOHQ | Post Impact Productions | TNHW | XBCD 0.2.7