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I had loads of trouble finding a decent emulator, but I finally ended up here, having seen a video of VBA-M on Youtube. (Running under some sort of Windows environment, maybe even Wine)

I decided to install from source, since I had some troubles finding a ppa. But I was kind of disappointed when gvba-m didn't have nearly as many options and settings as the Windows-version. I could of course use Wine, but I prefer to use native stuff as far as possible. Running from commandline is not an option for me. =/

I would love some help with getting a better GUI!
From what I understand there is a qt gui, can I use that, and if so, how?
What I would love most is an updated ppa, although that may be too much to hope for.

(Thanks for the very best simulator out there, and the fastest too!)]]>
I had loads of trouble finding a decent emulator, but I finally ended up here, having seen a video of VBA-M on Youtube. (Running under some sort of Windows environment, maybe even Wine)

I decided to install from source, since I had some troubles finding a ppa. But I was kind of disappointed when gvba-m didn't have nearly as many options and settings as the Windows-version. I could of course use Wine, but I prefer to use native stuff as far as possible. Running from commandline is not an option for me. =/

I would love some help with getting a better GUI!
From what I understand there is a qt gui, can I use that, and if so, how?
What I would love most is an updated ppa, although that may be too much to hope for.

(Thanks for the very best simulator out there, and the fastest too!)]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=528 Sun, 23 May 2010 05:47:37 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=528 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=458 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:20:46 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=458 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=400 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:08:43 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=400
This is on version SVN891.]]>
This is on version SVN891.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=399 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=399
I have an IPS and a UPS that both change a ROM image in the EXACT same way. I tested with a hex editor. However, only the IPS, when placed in the appropriate folder, will cause any change in the game when soft-patched.

In this case, it is a English translation patch for Fire Emblem - Fuuin no Tsurugi. The UPS, despite causing the same effect as the IPS when hard-patched, just doesn't seem to be read by VBA-M's soft-patching ability at all. This is strange, because it can read the Mother 3 English translation patch just fine.

And yes, the files are all named correctly.

I have the newest VBA-M (SVN891), but this problem occurred in every version I've ever used.

I took some pictures, though I think they may be useless for this bug. I copied the images from my monitor because, for some reason, VBA-M is crashing when I try to screen capture. The differences in color around the "Press start" is because the green aura flashes as a part of the normal game.]]>
I have an IPS and a UPS that both change a ROM image in the EXACT same way. I tested with a hex editor. However, only the IPS, when placed in the appropriate folder, will cause any change in the game when soft-patched.

In this case, it is a English translation patch for Fire Emblem - Fuuin no Tsurugi. The UPS, despite causing the same effect as the IPS when hard-patched, just doesn't seem to be read by VBA-M's soft-patching ability at all. This is strange, because it can read the Mother 3 English translation patch just fine.

And yes, the files are all named correctly.

I have the newest VBA-M (SVN891), but this problem occurred in every version I've ever used.

I took some pictures, though I think they may be useless for this bug. I copied the images from my monitor because, for some reason, VBA-M is crashing when I try to screen capture. The differences in color around the "Press start" is because the green aura flashes as a part of the normal game.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=369 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:09:17 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=369 When "GbPrinter=0" the under "pauseWhenInactive=0" is written directly in the ini file, it seems to be preserved.]]> When "GbPrinter=0" the under "pauseWhenInactive=0" is written directly in the ini file, it seems to be preserved.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=355 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:15:57 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=355
The problem is that my "Open recent" menu has reached its maximum capacity of 10 items, and newly opened ROMs don't overwrite older entries. I'd like to clear this list so that it can be populated with my more recent programs.

I checked $HOME/.config/gvbam, but found nothing that relates to this. I don't see anything else in my home folder that jumps out at me as immediately relevant. Where is this list data located on a Linux system?

Thanks]]>
The problem is that my "Open recent" menu has reached its maximum capacity of 10 items, and newly opened ROMs don't overwrite older entries. I'd like to clear this list so that it can be populated with my more recent programs.

I checked $HOME/.config/gvbam, but found nothing that relates to this. I don't see anything else in my home folder that jumps out at me as immediately relevant. Where is this list data located on a Linux system?

Thanks]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=249 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:45:45 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=249 this updated vba_deu.dll is based on resources of VBA-M svn727.
Menu and Dialogs are translated into german.]]> this updated vba_deu.dll is based on resources of VBA-M svn727.
Menu and Dialogs are translated into german.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=225 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:57:37 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=225 . Please report here any strange behavior you may notice.

Here is an Ubuntu package containing a recent build of the SDL and GTK+ ports :
http://bgkweb.googlepages.com/vbam_0.svn701-1_i386.deb]]> . Please report here any strange behavior you may notice.

Here is an Ubuntu package containing a recent build of the SDL and GTK+ ports :
http://bgkweb.googlepages.com/vbam_0.svn701-1_i386.deb]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=147 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:34:41 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=147 My problem is that if I want to save GTA Advance, this error comes
on the screen: "Error creating file Battery Saves/Grand theft auto.sav"

Is there enyone ho knows what i can do about it?
thanks ,
Ief2

(sorry for my english, i speak dutch)]]> My problem is that if I want to save GTA Advance, this error comes
on the screen: "Error creating file Battery Saves/Grand theft auto.sav"

Is there enyone ho knows what i can do about it?
thanks ,
Ief2

(sorry for my english, i speak dutch)]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=91 Fri, 02 May 2008 20:43:55 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=91 Because in the past few months I have been hacking on it to make it more useful to me and if it could help anybody else, I am willing to clean up the changes for upstreaming.

List of changes follows:
Added cheat capability to commandline
- up to 100 cheats as parameters
- CTRL-E to toggle (Enable) cheats

Rewinds
- toss away the "stack" approach
- make a ring of (8) rewind-states
- allow free navigation among them: back, forward, repeat (home to) last rewind-state, jump to the newest rewind-state
- make messages (rewind stored, ...) go only to terminal

save/load
- configurable keymap
. F# saves/ SHIFT+F# loads
. F# loads/ SHIFT+F# saves
. F5/F6 changes slot, F7 saves, F8 loads
- this means that I no longer need to fear that SDL will eat my SHIFTs
- backups
. make backup of a on-disk savestate we are overwriting (when saving) - last such backup loadable with
. make backup of a in-memory savestate we are tossing (when loading) - last such backup loadable with

IPS patches
- up to 100 IPS files specifiable on commandline
- make it actually work (there was a bug - but it might have been *my* bug, in an intermediate version)

Sound pseudo-muting
- CTRL-S toggles this
- muting implemented by muting all channels when something is on
- unmuting implemented by restoring "muted channels" to whatever they were before last muting
- in the "rare" case that unmuting would leave everything muted (after loading a state that was saved with muted channels), unmute all channels instead

General code cleanup
- use DEFINES for some literal constant (FIXME: should use const variables instead)
- fix configuration bug for the 4th pad
- factor out some bigger code chunks from sdlPollEvents (save/load, rewinds, ...)
- wrote a simple file with all keyboard shortucts found

OpenGL scaling default
- configurable default scaling factor for OpenGL stretching
- only applicable for the "1x" filter (ie. no filter) and when not fullscreen
- changes dimension of the window on startup and when the "1x" filter is chosen (with CTRL-G)

Autofire
- added per-gamepad autofire for A and B (extensible to L and R, ...)
- the previous "solution" (still present) actually toggles autofire for all pads at the same time and you can't suppres it without disabling it altogether
- my solution configures a button that, when pressed, causes rapid changes of the A/B button for the given pad
- and pressing A/B while auto-A/auto-B is on just makes the A/B be persistent (as if it was pressed without autofire) [or maybe not, but this seems to be what I inteded]

Messages
- messages going to the main display are now echoed to terminal
- more messages added (some of them just to the terminal) - for savestates, pausing, cheats, ...
- most terminal messages have timestamp added


I am pretty sure some of the functionality belongs to common code, but so far I have only built the SDL port ...]]> Because in the past few months I have been hacking on it to make it more useful to me and if it could help anybody else, I am willing to clean up the changes for upstreaming.

List of changes follows:
Added cheat capability to commandline
- up to 100 cheats as parameters
- CTRL-E to toggle (Enable) cheats

Rewinds
- toss away the "stack" approach
- make a ring of (8) rewind-states
- allow free navigation among them: back, forward, repeat (home to) last rewind-state, jump to the newest rewind-state
- make messages (rewind stored, ...) go only to terminal

save/load
- configurable keymap
. F# saves/ SHIFT+F# loads
. F# loads/ SHIFT+F# saves
. F5/F6 changes slot, F7 saves, F8 loads
- this means that I no longer need to fear that SDL will eat my SHIFTs
- backups
. make backup of a on-disk savestate we are overwriting (when saving) - last such backup loadable with
. make backup of a in-memory savestate we are tossing (when loading) - last such backup loadable with

IPS patches
- up to 100 IPS files specifiable on commandline
- make it actually work (there was a bug - but it might have been *my* bug, in an intermediate version)

Sound pseudo-muting
- CTRL-S toggles this
- muting implemented by muting all channels when something is on
- unmuting implemented by restoring "muted channels" to whatever they were before last muting
- in the "rare" case that unmuting would leave everything muted (after loading a state that was saved with muted channels), unmute all channels instead

General code cleanup
- use DEFINES for some literal constant (FIXME: should use const variables instead)
- fix configuration bug for the 4th pad
- factor out some bigger code chunks from sdlPollEvents (save/load, rewinds, ...)
- wrote a simple file with all keyboard shortucts found

OpenGL scaling default
- configurable default scaling factor for OpenGL stretching
- only applicable for the "1x" filter (ie. no filter) and when not fullscreen
- changes dimension of the window on startup and when the "1x" filter is chosen (with CTRL-G)

Autofire
- added per-gamepad autofire for A and B (extensible to L and R, ...)
- the previous "solution" (still present) actually toggles autofire for all pads at the same time and you can't suppres it without disabling it altogether
- my solution configures a button that, when pressed, causes rapid changes of the A/B button for the given pad
- and pressing A/B while auto-A/auto-B is on just makes the A/B be persistent (as if it was pressed without autofire) [or maybe not, but this seems to be what I inteded]

Messages
- messages going to the main display are now echoed to terminal
- more messages added (some of them just to the terminal) - for savestates, pausing, cheats, ...
- most terminal messages have timestamp added


I am pretty sure some of the functionality belongs to common code, but so far I have only built the SDL port ...]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=75 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:32 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=75
I added a CMake project that can compile the SDL and the GTK port. CMake is a very powerful (unlike qmake) and easy to use (unlike the autotools) build system that generates native project files (makefiles for linux, VC projects for Windows, and XCode projects for MacOS)]]>
I added a CMake project that can compile the SDL and the GTK port. CMake is a very powerful (unlike qmake) and easy to use (unlike the autotools) build system that generates native project files (makefiles for linux, VC projects for Windows, and XCode projects for MacOS)]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=69 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:38:22 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=69 - fresh ini
- additional files in the root folder:
d3dx9_36.dll
d3dx9_37.dll
libpng13.dll
zlib1.dll


If the screenshot format is png, screenshotting crashes the emulator every time, whether triggered by the screenshot command in the menu or the keyboard shortcut. screenies not written (black 0 byte files) and not readable.

When BMP is selected instead, screenshotting works fine.]]> - fresh ini
- additional files in the root folder:
d3dx9_36.dll
d3dx9_37.dll
libpng13.dll
zlib1.dll


If the screenshot format is png, screenshotting crashes the emulator every time, whether triggered by the screenshot command in the menu or the keyboard shortcut. screenies not written (black 0 byte files) and not readable.

When BMP is selected instead, screenshotting works fine.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=53 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:58:20 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=53
Anyways in the past if you load a game from a directory and it loads fine and you play the game for a while then load another game and play that etc. at the end of it all VBA remembers the directory you were last in. So the next time you go to load a GBA game (an not one from the most recent list) then it will start up from that last directory used (there is also an ini entry to that effect).

However it seems on SVN compile 461 this somehow does not happen propperly as while it does remember the directory during gaming, once the emulator has been closed and then started again, it always starts up from it's own directory instead of the last used one.
There's also no entry in the ini saying where the last directory was.

Sorry if this has been fixed but as the latest SVN compile 470 does not work on my single core system as has already been said in it's release thread so I am not able to check that it has been.]]>
Anyways in the past if you load a game from a directory and it loads fine and you play the game for a while then load another game and play that etc. at the end of it all VBA remembers the directory you were last in. So the next time you go to load a GBA game (an not one from the most recent list) then it will start up from that last directory used (there is also an ini entry to that effect).

However it seems on SVN compile 461 this somehow does not happen propperly as while it does remember the directory during gaming, once the emulator has been closed and then started again, it always starts up from it's own directory instead of the last used one.
There's also no entry in the ini saying where the last directory was.

Sorry if this has been fixed but as the latest SVN compile 470 does not work on my single core system as has already been said in it's release thread so I am not able to check that it has been.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=30 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:48:52 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=30 The problem I reported on the old board still persists in rev.466.
Linux+Qt4+ati-drivers=segfault with backtrace:
#0 0xb64a6320 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
#1 0x00000008 in ?? ()
#2 0x0891e038 in ?? ()
#3 0xbf8d5048 in ?? ()
#4 0xb64b3aa5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
#5 0x0843d4cc in ?? ()
#6 0x44ffe000 in ?? ()
#7 0x000001f8 in ?? ()
#8 0x00000000 in ?? ()

And BTW, is `find . -name entries -exec sed -i -e 's:svn.bountysource.com:vbam.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot:' '{}' \;` enough to make a clean move from bountysource to sourceforge ?]]> The problem I reported on the old board still persists in rev.466.
Linux+Qt4+ati-drivers=segfault with backtrace:
#0 0xb64a6320 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
#1 0x00000008 in ?? ()
#2 0x0891e038 in ?? ()
#3 0xbf8d5048 in ?? ()
#4 0xb64b3aa5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
#5 0x0843d4cc in ?? ()
#6 0x44ffe000 in ?? ()
#7 0x000001f8 in ?? ()
#8 0x00000000 in ?? ()

And BTW, is `find . -name entries -exec sed -i -e 's:svn.bountysource.com:vbam.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot:' '{}' \;` enough to make a clean move from bountysource to sourceforge ?]]>