Application:VBA

VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is an emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.

Credit

Ported by Will Dietz Jan 2010.
Thanks to #webos-internals for their feedback throughout testing!

License

All source is under the GPLv2 license. The original source code is available here
And the latest VBA for webOS source is available on git here

Donate

Lots of work has gone into making this a great game for you to enjoy! If you like it please consider donating

Controls

To select a rom, just tap on it in the rom selector.
Note that if you have more roms than fit on the screen, simply scroll to them.

These are the current controls (while playing):
WASD --Up/left/down/right.
K --B
L--A
Q--L
P--R
enter--start
space--select
@--turbo
orange+L (quote)--change scaling filter
orange+@ (zero)--change orientation
. (period)--snapshot
t -- start/select/a/b all at once
* (orange+z/asterisk) --toggle sound for speed (particularly GBA)

Feature Requests

Here's a list I encourage everyone to help create (I'll maintain it myself). Feel free to add things here!

• ALSA instead of pulseaudio
• Add ability to customize controls
• Add on-screen controls
  • Portrait: controls can go off the screen (below, move image up)
  • Landscape: if you can resolve the alpha blending performance issues, make that happen!
• Zip rom support
• "Go back to rom chooser" menu
• save state support
• Create /save folder for .sav files (battery-backed RAM save info), instead of placing .sav in the /roms folder
• More Scaling options, particularly 1:1 (no scaling)
• Better performance on GBA!!
  • See iphone/GP2X ports and their ARM optimizations!

Known issues

• Poor performance in GBA. Try disabling sound (press '*'/orange+z)
• Audio doesn't seem to be fully disabled (you won't hear anything, but Pulseaudio is still doing a little work)
• Occasionally crashes when minimized