BSD Ports

emulators/vba 1.7.2_13 DragonFly

Open source Gameboy Advance emulator

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2+
Categories
emulators
Package size
304.2 KiB, 983.0 KiB installed

Description

VisualBoyAdvance is an emulator for Nintendo's Gameboy Advance. It also supports emulation of the Gameboy (classic), Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance SP. Some of the main features are:

  • option to use BIOS file
  • zip/gzip file support
  • graphic filters Normal, TV Mode, 2xSaI, Super 2xSaI and more
  • interframe blending support
  • built-in ARM/THUMB assembly debugger
  • 10 save states accesible through keyboard
  • automatic battery file load/save
  • auto-fire support
  • 16, 24 and 32 bit desktop support
  • GDB remote debugging (see below for information)
  • AGBPrint support for development
  • RTC support

NOTICE: Thx go out to Wouter Groeneveld for helping me to test the port.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyemulators/vba1.7.2_13
FreeBSDemulators/vba1.7.2_13
MidnightBSDemulators/vba1.7.2_1
GhostBSDemulators/vba1.7.2_13

Install

Binary package:

pkg install vba

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/emulators/vba && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

The default configuration file has been installed as
/usr/local/bin/VisualBoyAdvance.cfg-default. Please copy it to
/usr/local/bin/VisualBoyAdvance.cfg before you start the emulator.

If all you see after loading a ROM is a black screen and/or
VisualBoy Advance crashes, try switching the video filter.
Either change it in the global config file or use the -f switch.