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PSPVBA – A Gameboy Advance Emulator!

greg | June 25, 2006

Great news, all the Gameboy Advance lovers rejoice! ZX-81 has once again bedazzled us all, this time porting VisualBoyAdvance, a Gameboy Advance emulator, to the PSP!

Few notes from ZX-81…

PSPVBA is a port on PSP of the Linux version 1.7.2 of VisualBoyAdvance with SDL support.

It’s a first beta release, and as we could expect, it doesn’t run full speed!

I’ve done many optimizations to reach the full speed, in particular I’ve translated all the original source code from C++ to pure C language for performance purposes, but that’s not enough…

Nevertheless, all required features for an emulator are already present: sound, “save states”, customizable keys mapping, screenshots, etc…

The sound support is based on the work of psp298, but it is not really good (mainly due to speed).

As per the usual with all ZX-81 releases, you may refer to the included README.txt for installation and usage detail.

Download PSPVBA v1.0.1 – the package includes both binaries for 1.50 and 2.0-2.60, and the ported source code.

Enjoy!

- source: ZX-81

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Comment by ME
2006-06-25 21:23:28

ZOMG NO. 1! SWEET GBA EMU. NICE WORK!

 
Comment by maxwell
2006-06-25 21:25:52

does it work 4 2.7

 
Comment by Polsky
2006-06-25 21:29:31

nothing works on 2.7 so far exept if u have the undiluted platinum chip or flash games so far
is the game boy emu anygood?

 
Comment by Ryu
2006-06-25 21:33:41

to load Roms

press select when it loads the space shooter
to go to the menu the pick you rom
the after you pick you Roms

press R
to reset the gba the lode the rom

 
Comment by Duncanyoyo1
2006-06-25 22:37:46

Yup good emulator now u just gotta find roms LOL!!!

 
Comment by restless
2006-06-25 22:51:48

hows the speed? imma run this good looking creator

 
Comment by Kingblinx
2006-06-25 22:56:45

This is awesome. Now we will finally have a working GBA emulator. And ZX-81 always updates his emus so this one I KNOW will finally work.

 
Comment by vandel
2006-06-25 23:17:41

Sounds great I can’t wait until some more devloped ones are released. Keep up the good work boss.

 
Comment by ME
2006-06-25 23:25:50

meh, still runs too slow 4 me but alot faster than previous GBA emus

 
Comment by shadow
2006-06-25 23:28:38

thanks ZX-81, but i agree ith “ME” still much to slow, yet a bit faster than previous roms, hopefully ZX-81 keeps the updates coming…

 
Comment by PXYZ
2006-06-25 23:55:39

One q’n (always asked) Does it work 2.0+
Also if u want roms: http://www.emuparadise.org/index2.php and click GBA

 
Comment by Halo god of war
2006-06-26 00:02:53

NO POSTING LINKS TO ISOs!! IDIOT. but anyway great emu.

 
Comment by ??????????????
2006-06-26 00:21:57

finally we got a gba emulator with sound. Hopefully ZX-81 will make more updates to make this emulator working awesome on our psp’s. U FUCKING ROCK ZX-81.

 
Comment by Atlus
2006-06-26 00:43:49

Still rather slow and not every game runs but its good to hear some news about this.

 
Comment by DarkPacMan77
2006-06-26 00:53:47

finally. Seems like this is much needed. Please continue trying to update this. We all have full confidence in your abilities after your previous emulators. We are all very thankful.

DarkPacMan77

 
Comment by MrHarry
2006-06-26 02:15:48

Holy shit, hopefully this gets better, but looks fucking sweet so far!!!!

Good work ZX81!!!! Keep the awseome shit coming!

 
Comment by Mr. Sky
2006-06-26 02:55:55

Keep up your good work ZX-81! Really Great!!! Thank you!

 
Comment by OneWingedAngel
2006-06-26 03:12:45

Beautiful emulator! Compatability seems better than previous GBA emus and speed is slightly better as well. I’m very happy to see this is the work of ZX-81, a very capable coder with a history of following up on his projects. I look forward to future releases.

 
Comment by General117
2006-06-26 03:37:04

Now just got 2 find ROMS… I think i will stick 2 ISO’s and not ROMS rofl.

 
Comment by Aynmoonus
2006-06-26 03:53:59

Great as always ZX-81.

 
Comment by Geoffers
2006-06-26 05:05:30

Keep up the good work ZX-81…

Great coding – please concentrate on the speed enhancements if possible… Gr8 stuff so far… Look forward to your next release!!!

 
Comment by san
2006-06-26 07:29:15

Does this emulator works well? Sorry if i made some mistakes in my comment , this is because i am from russia and i don’t know english well.

 
Comment by edfuk
2006-06-26 07:32:23

hi i got eloader to work on my psp 2.60 but when i try to run any thing with it like snes emu or gba emu or an app the screen goes blank and then the psp switches off. can n e 1 help? tnx edfuk

 
Comment by GUAU
2006-06-26 08:49:35

ZX-81 is the man

 
Comment by Nizmo
2006-06-26 09:03:20

anyone know a percentage as to the speed of the emulator compared to the original gba??

 
Comment by Sholzy
2006-06-26 11:12:55

I already had a GBA Emulator for psp :|

 
Comment by philipp89
2006-06-26 11:58:08

i had a GBA EMULATOR too which is better than this.PSPVBA SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Comment by John
2006-06-26 12:27:20

it depends on the rom you are playing for example fire emblem is much faster on the gbapsp but be patient this is a first release and already a top of the line piece of homebrew

 
Comment by Atlus
2006-06-26 12:31:08

Its just the first release , of course it wont run at full speed.. its just to show ppl that a serious coder is working on it and that we can expect a full working version someday.

 
Comment by maxwell
2006-06-26 12:45:48

it runs rather slow just like the other GBA emulator

PS im on fw 2.6

 
Comment by johnnychan
2006-06-26 13:10:44

it says in the description thats its not full speed.. however this author has been kick ass for the psp so far so i have alot of faith in this emu, it will get better.. im all in

 
Comment by MikeBeuler
2006-06-26 13:16:05

…ZX-81 is not really a man but a robot that just gets smarter and smarter…I can’t beleive the amount of releases this guy has done.

 
Comment by wondering waiter
2006-06-26 14:10:54

this emu is the best. i was wondering if anybody know if kingdom hearts work on it b/c i cant make it work.

 
Comment by gregerson316
2006-06-26 14:25:29

I still think the N64 emulator is more worth while, because the GBA is already portable. Now when has there been a portable Nintendo 64? The games are better too.

 
Comment by Dan-O
2006-06-26 14:38:13

Yea gba is a portable system…but dont u really wanna carry around a GBA and a PSP everywhere?…

I think this gba emulator will really do some good…so keep up with the good work and dont give up on us!

 
Comment by sucka
2006-06-26 15:22:53

wow! i’m really happy to see someone working on the GBA emus again. this is the first emu that i’m ever gunna use that ZX-81 has ever developed. but great news keep up the work.

 
Comment by gamer
2006-06-26 17:09:31

hey does anybody know how to make kingdom hearts chain of memories work????
need help

 
Comment by WHAT????
2006-06-26 17:10:59

i appreciate the work zx-81 but i was also wondering if you could play kingdom hearts chain of memories on the pspgba

 
Comment by crazy
2006-06-26 17:12:17

yeah me too does anybody know how to work kh on pspgba

 
Comment by the man
2006-06-26 17:13:29

yeah man its like everytime i load up the kh game man it would crash on me man
man that stinks man

 
Comment by mike
2006-06-26 17:14:43

Yea kindom of hearts would be awesome=D….and zelda:seasons or ages =D

 
Comment by KH LoVa
2006-06-26 17:17:01

can some1 help me on loading KH on the pspgba?
PLZZ! comment me back! PLZZ!
Help me on loading KH on my psp!

 
Comment by soundwave202
2006-06-26 20:20:05

im happy with it. Better than the others. Now they need to make it a lil faster and it’s all good…. good job!!!!

 
Comment by Ryu
2006-06-26 21:53:29

Kindom heats it too big and it my never run on the psp at full speed

 
Comment by dwid
2006-06-26 23:36:11

golden sun works beautifully, without sound.
zx-81 kicks ass!

 
Comment by roytheone
2006-06-27 05:58:02

mike: season and ages are already playeble with homer’s rin!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Comment by zx-81
2006-06-28 18:27:20

I’ve released a new version (http://zx81.zx81.free.fr)

Enjoy Zx.

 
Comment by AlanSmithee
2006-06-29 08:03:07

“Comment by the man — June 26, 2006 @ June 26, 2006

Yea kindom of hearts would be awesome=D….and zelda:seasons or ages =D ”

Zelda: Seasons and Zelda: Ages are gameboy color titles! And there allready perfect gbc-emu’s

 
Comment by taylor
2008-05-10 12:11:06

hi it says currupted data what sould i do because the instructions are relly hard to understand

 
Comment by xmido
2008-09-27 08:12:53

if its slow. then its pointless. i rather play at my pc at full speed as long i am playing the game right.

 
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