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PSPVBA v1.1.0 – Fast & Smooth!
greg | July 14, 2006
Your wish has been granted – PSPVBA, the Gameboy Advance emulator, now faster & smoother!

PSPVBA v1.1.0 changes:
- It works now on 2.5 and 2.6 FW (I’ve tested it using DevHook)
- All the graphic part has been rewritten to replace SDL by direct GU access (faster)
- Sound is now played at 22Khz instead of 11Khz (i can play it up to 44Khz, it’s better but slower)
- The images are now smooth (using the GU)
- Snapshot files are now in PNG format (instead of BMP)
ZX-81 has noted this will be the last version for 2.X firmware; ME (only available in 1.50) will be used from this point forward to further improve performance. Check README.txt for details.
Download: PSPVBA v1.1.0
- source: ZX-81’s web site
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Awseome!!!
Always appreciated ZX!
sweeet
YEAH baby , ZX-81 is what u call a machine, guy doesnt sleep. thanks for the update man, game is now smoother and it plays better, also my psp just became more fun.
So cool. will this work with sims 2?
You guys are so appreciated!
nice one
arnookie
ok im a big fan of gba but this release isnt really a big improvment however still great work
yeah, this owns!!
nice work
Hey ZX, great work. Hope you keep those updates coming! Is there anyway I can send some cash to you for all your great work? Heck, anyone that downloads it should at least send you a buck for all your hard work.
no matter how many times I say thanx..
it’s never enough..
however thank you ^_^
whats the usual framerate now
hehe well judging from the comments this thing should b pretty sweet ima install it now
this is a sweetass emulator. as a 1.5 user i cant wait for 1.5 only emulator which will increase speed even more. for the time being though this is great work to satisfy those damn 2.0 + firmware users. when will you learn 1.5 is the best and will always be the best with new dev hook. hahahahhahahaha 1.5 wins!
ps great job zx-81
i would marry u but i am straight, asuming youre a guy!
ZX-81.. is THE emulation god.
ZX-81 THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! :D NOW MY MUM DONT NEED TO BUY A GBA FROM EBAY, AS U SAID. THANKS MAN, I WASNT DISRESPECTING U BEFORE SORRY
does anybody know what the name of the car racing game that is being emulated with pspvba?
Thanks.
what is fast for this guy??? 6-7 fps???? all his gameboy advance emulator so far are BS!
Freakin’ noobs posting on youtube about ‘hacking’ their psp on a 2.6fw PSP…
Rom Dude you said it.
1.5 all the way suckas!
P.S. All you 2.x FW users better find a way to downgrade cuz ZX will be pushing this thing as a 1.5 exclusive from now on. PWNED!
You are the friggin’ man!
huhhh andy, as I can see you dont look at some psp site like pspupdates.. because there is allready a 2.50/6 downgrader…
PSP 1.50 FOR LIFE!!!! I love my iso’s F-U SONY! bunch of racists!
Whats the name of the rom in the screen shot
some racing game dont know
anyone a link
RICMEECH, it’s been reported that some games go up to 15 fps, just depends on the game. And he’s on vacation and is working on it so give him a break.
Neton.. 15fps?!?!?!? you know what.. a good speed for a game is at least 60 fps! his still got work to do.. dont say its fast cuz its not lolll
My grand-ma would walk faster than that!
Where the hell in my post did I say it was fast? I simply stated it twice as fast as what you posted. And you act like getting a emulator to full speed is easy. What the hell do you think it is, an overnight job? sigh, some people are just to ungrateful
GBA games definately DO NOT have 60 fps.. a human eye cant even see anything above 27 fps so whats the point in so many frames anyways..
if ya guys dont know the fps doesn’t show the correct number but its really going faster then that
well buddy.. let me tell you this… the guy is on vacation.. fine.. but dont forget that there is lots of developpers that are.. maybe the guy of devhook is.. that doesnt stop him of updating is homebrew every like what 2 or 3 days.. and his not the only one.. yeah you didnt say it was fast.. psp-hacks did.. dont say its fast… instead.. say ” its a little faster” its not the same.. for the other guy.. hmm usually games are about that 50-60fps.. snes roms, n64 roms.. etc.. to put them on 60 fps is faster and smoother..
cheers..
P.S. I prefer my 17 downloaded Isos.. Sony deserved it for their BS!
you can make the framrate around 15 fps… it just depends on the setting you put… try to put the skip thing on -1 and the turbo on 3… this is just a suggestion so yeah… nice update zx.
the rom is v-rally 3
forgot to mension.. n64 roms are 60 fps but not on psp yet.. but on PC.. well anyway.. there is still work to do… I just dont like when ppl say ” oh yeah its a really good emulator” last time they said that.. i tried psp 0.5 and $hit.. its was like 5 fps.. even 1fps at some point.. I was like.. what the hell.. but keep it up… and i have a request.. when news are comming out.. can you guys say a many fps it is.. so we dont get to try it and be surprise.. like I was the other time!
**** PSPVBA 0.5 ********
it looks as if we’re all waiting for a bit more speed out of this thing. I’ll wait for around 30FPS. Good work though zx! Keep it up.
yay now to play pokemon!
can anyone tell me wats the best umd emulator to use
thx in advanced!
p.s this thing is cool keep up the fight agaisnt sony!!!!!
@richeech
When you are wrong and dumb you’re so wrong and dumb that I find it satirical. Translation of what you are saying: Whaaaa, make me a better emulator because this one sucks and I don’t know not one thing about coding. Whaaa! ZX-81, you suck because you aren’t coding my spoiled bratty *** one fast enough to MY expectations. Whaaa! *kicks and screams like a pansy on the floor*
I wish that there was a way for everyone excluding you to recieve updates. Buy a GBA or stfu for crying out loud! lol.
ZX-81, mad props dude! Each release just keeps getting better and better.
hehe, lol…. nice one coooooool That was so noobish of you….check the forums.
30 fps is ok, even some 360 games run at 30.
This isnt any faster than current version. Are there optimal settings I should be using?
Do you requiere the GBA bios to play Metroid games as in the computer? This emulator kicks ass! :)
OMG!!!!! this is not that much better then da last version of da gba emulator ZX-81, made why is he making loads of them that only have slight proformence???????.
He should just make one more to end it all for all us fools that updated to 2.5 2.6FW insted of being gay just to go do something else on 1.5FW.
Come on we all know you can make 1 last emulator that plays all (most well known) gba games insted off releaseing ones that dont help us.
this sucks… I want to play KH CoM on my 2.60 PSP at a NORMAL speed
I’m you released a faster one. At leat he releases updates!!! Some coders just give up on there projects.
Within a month we will have a full gba emulator.
Cheers!
To RICMEECH and BEC why don’t you stop playing with your join the dots books and learn to do some coding yourself. Can you name anyway you have contributed to this scene other than bad mouthing coders who use their free time to develop emus etc? Get your mommy to buy you a VBA you spoilt a$$holes
bow DOWn to ZX-81 team, Ya amazing!
to ASS uhhhh I mean ACE!!! already got a GBA.. since long ago.. good imitation.. think I care?? not! think i care about this shitty developper and his shitty PSPVBA not at all either… you know what i like about the psp and ppl like you.. the psp has the perfect shape to stick it where you think.. good bye!
to Ricmeech: exploiting your liberty of expression??? are you for real? you are entitled to express your opinions just as i am entitled to express my opinion that you are a cock sucker. and a very ungrateful one at that
fistikuffs lolll hahahaha! yeah thats right.. lolllll honnestly.. i dont really care about ppl who are insulting me.. its just funny.. its a good thing im not reply at those cuz you would commit suicide! lolll as i hope you do cuz there is no place in a world for ppl like you..
DIE MUTTA FUCKA!
I’LL BE HONNEST.. I LIKE THE PSP COMMUNITY.. I LOVE MUST ALL DEVELOPPERS… PSP IS MY PASSION.. TO SCREWED UP SONY IS MY 2ND PASSION.. BUT TO BE HONNEST.. PSPVBA SO FARE GOES NOWHERE… THE GUY IS DOING HALF OF HIS JOB BY QUITTING FOR 2.00+ I MEAN THE GUY WHO MADE SNES9XTYL DID 2 VERSIONS.. USER AND KERNEL.. SO THIS GUY HERE IS A LOSER AND TO ALL OF YOU RETARD WHO INSULTED ME.. I TAKE NOTHING PERSONNALY FROM PPL WHO ARE PLAYING THOSE STUPID POKEMON GAMES.. MUST OF YOU DO.. OR ELSE WHY A GBA EMULATOR.. SO FUCKK OFFF!
p.s. why quitting for 2.xx? you idiot.. “only 1.50 as the kernel mode..” he wants to work on a ME version.. dont you know that the kernel have been found on 2.5 and 2.6??? thats the reasion why i dont like you.. you do half of your job.. and expect getting credit after all.. i might no know alot on coding.. but im surely good in computers.. I wouldnt stop half way if was doing some homebrews.. i will surely do someday…
to ppl who said ” what did you do for homebrews community” well i did lots of testing when the 1st eloader came out and I tried ” I TRIED!!!” finding a way for a downgrader on 2.50 and 2.60 this is my last post.. good bye
Duh….my name is RICMEECH and me like to be lame… I tried to downgrade my PSP from 2.5 by sticking it where da sun dont shine but then i forgto to clean up and my PSP is all Krusty know.
And i teh tester for da eloader cuz it rawks and i like to be stupid and teh grammer it sucks cuz there to be no funnies here!
I teh pwned computer goods even if i no know alot on coding…
Uh oh i g2g my mom’s gonna cut my hairs lollll!
tramp
it’s better than before, but still far from fast or smooth
ZX-81 is the fuckin man
this sux
need more speed just a little more
for all the people that are mad bcos its the last 2.0 version u r just dumb
downgrader is out and its so easy i u still dint downgrade u are just stupid
i can get 30 fps. settings:
skip frame -2
turbo mode 4
Does it work on 2.7 orm is there sumfin i can put on me psp so i can play all these iso’s
thanks in advanse
cooooooooooooool
I am so amazing! Praise me!
nothing works for 2.70+ exept for flash games.. there is no homebrew running on 2.70+ (exept if you have the mod-chip;) )
2.50/6 just got their downgrader.. so now they can go on 1.50 and play as much og isos and homebrews as they want..
there is no downgrader method for 2.70 and 2.71 so far.. too bad for you.. we told you guys not to upgraded when 2.70 firmware came out and you didnt listen.. look what you loose now!
thank god i have 2 psps, one for up to date games and one for homebrews
Wht the fuck are u talkin’ bout vicecity55?
All up to date games are playable at this moment with the DevHook 0.44 which emulates 2.71.
Got 130+ titles up and running.
Yes, firmware 1.5 pwns them all!!!
bionic, i dont even know what the hell the devhook is or does,so back off! i have FW 2.70,so from what i saw on the new devhook its for 2.50 and 2.60.
This is crap. Stop giving props to the master of crap.
on the last version i could achieve 30 fps by making the frameskip -2 and trying to keep all of the settings unmodified, but it ran slower than say, using turbo 1 and upping the arm tick
really can’t wait til this is 100%…i think if anyone can do it, zx can, and he is working on ME compatibilies for the v1.50… good stuff
DarkPacMan77
you truly are a god among men. (and i mean that in the most non-blasphemous way possible)
Your wish has been granted – PSPVBA, the Gameboy Advance emulator, now faster & smoother!
- WASNT MY WISH IN THE FIRST PLACE
you suckers should dev. something better before fuckin around…-.-
go home fools
nice work zx
You know what’s “FAST AND SMOOTH”? A real Gameboy Advance. You know what’s NOT “FAST AND SMOOTH” this release. Is it “FASTER AND SMOOTHER” than earlier versions? Yes. Just a bit…but we’re STILL not talking playable games. At this point there really shouldn’t be any future releases till it plays like the SNES emulator…which, un-optimized, runs every so slightly slower than the real thing….yet is still playable.
vicecity55 , try out devhook.. you will not need 2 psps anymore
PRAISE ME, I AM GOD!
i dont understand it, what FW is the devhook for?
for those ppl who tried to use this on the 2.0 without success like i did b4
go to http://files.fanjita.org/psp/eloader097_nocache.exe
download this into your psp
this is an eloader that is better for 2.0
Can’t wait til you use the ME! Lovin’ it ZX.
vicecity55, devhook is for firmware 1.50…
it can emulate FW 2.50, 2.60 and now 2.71.. you need the dump of the firmware good thing.. you can find the full packages here on psp-hacks.com
actually, 60 fps is a high framerate for console video games
i cant get kingdom hearts to work! someone please help me. = [
can some one help me i have downloaded this to my psp but i dont have any roms to use can ou tell me how to get them i like rpgs and adventure games. thanx
roms? get them from http://www.romnation.net but i dont think they have GBA roms yet…and i need to ask u people summing…. i have the latest devhook and i run the firmare 2.71 Perfectly but as soon as i insert a UMD it Fucks up and freezes….do i need that file thingy called Reboot.bin?
why downgrade to 1.5? what do u do with ur real umds that require 2.6 and u have no memory card
with alot of space.
That’s a good point “WAT” but
i supose youd av to go buy a memstick or
delete some stuff on ur mem
true but still u downgrade using the downdater then delete them files (ull still be on 1.5 which is godlike) and then use the new amazing DEVHOOK! its actually fuckin works! i was reaaaly skeptical about it but i got mine workin now and i can now play Socom FTB on my 1.5!
LOL
yea i want to downgrade but if brick my psp my will KILL me lol
OOPPSY^^^^my mum will kill me
all u 1.5 users sold all ur umds?
nah i dont i have devohook DONT sell! seriously no point u can run all umds on the new 2.71 Devhook oh and the chance that ud brik ur psp is VERY little lol chek first off if u have a bunch of no. wen u open up ur UMD drive they are VERY visiable if u cant see any GOLD no. or text in the inside U can downgrade withought a worry!!! DO it! its worth it
@cmayi
go to shadyroms.com using firefox
one mor question. with new devhook u can play ur umds on 1.5 or do u HAVE to make a backup file in order to play
Yo 666_Dark SeRaNADE_666 i dont see any text or gold but its my psp and its probably da only one i will ever have lol
how come homer’s rin plays ALL……gbc/gb games perfectly but vbapsp doesent. homer and ZX-81 should team up now that would be good to see.
Hello Guys! I’m new in this… bussines. My PSP hase just been downgraded. I also donwloaded this emulator. But I have a question… Were can i find roms/games for thi emulator? I would like to have the newest Pokemon (I don’t know the name of it).