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Monday, July
3. 2006
PSPVBA: GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP v1.0.4
Hi All,
Here is a new version of PSPVBA the GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP.
I would like to thanks again Tommydanger for his help !
What's new in version 1.0.4 :
- Emulator menu is now directly available on startup
- Add turbo modes, but it can result in graphic artefacts but you can win up to 20% !
(turbo modes don't work for all games)
- Add ARM tick average change option (can be used to increase speed)
- The file default.kbd (keyboard mapping) is now loaded on startup
- Screenshots are now save in BMP format instead of PNG (less memory consumming,
so it should not freeze your PSP).
- Many bug fix
How to use it ?
Have a look to the README.txt file !
Two binary versions (for 2.x and 1.5 FW) and sources are included in the zip archive.
This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for more information about it.
pspvba-v1.0.4.zip
Enjoy,
Zx.
This emulator doesn't work with the Tiff exploit on 2.0, so please use the GTA exploit instead.
Posted by zx-81 in GameBoy Adv at 22:05
Awesome simply awesome. I swear I'm checking for your updates daily. Thanks
Etafulase on Jul 3 2006, 22:38
Merci beaucoup pour cet emulateur.
Je ne comprend pas bien à quoi correspon ARM ti...
Est-ce que tu pourrais m'expliquer afin de savoir le régler correctement?
Bravo pour ton travail, j'aurrais juste voulu savoir si c'était la derniere mise à jour à apporter un "léger" surplus de vitesse et si tu
compte en faire d'autre pas forcément de suite mais dans le futur, merci d'avance.
Encore bravo.
Airtoof on Jul 3 2006, 22:46
i am very happy with your emulator.....you ve done a great job....the only little thing i would have to say is that i am testing it now and it
seems that it doesnt loads roms larger than 8-9 mb....like pokemon green leaf 16mb..... can somebody tell me why...i have a 2.5 psp
mike on Jul 3 2006, 22:52
ARM tick c'est le nombre de cycles moyens pour une instruction de processeur ARM (de la GameBoy). Par defaut je l'ai mis a 4, mais
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on peut soit le baisser un peu (genre 3) et dans ce cas, c'est comme si tu avais overclocké le processeur ARM, ou le passer a 5 si tu
trouves que le processeur va trop vite ...
Pour les prochaines releases, je ne sais pas ... Sans doute bientot car il semble y avoir un probleme avec les grosses ROMs
(probleme qui n'existait pas avant).
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 3 2006, 22:56
I've modified the memory allocation for ROM, RAM etc ... this might explain your problem. Does this rom runs with PSPVBA v1.0.3 ?
If yes, i have to modify back the memory allocation ..
Thanks for your feedback,
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 3 2006, 22:58
welll the only thing that worked before....was v1.0.2 and i was eagerly expecting v1.0.4 because i thought it would work...but
meanwhile ive tried several other roms and they work great ...youre the bomb...
Anonymous on Jul 3 2006, 23:02
Wow, nice work man! I love all your emulator ports! Hopefully you will be the one to finally bring full speed GBA fun to PSP users!
Keep up the amazing work!!
RaiderX on Jul 3 2006, 23:05
i can see a great speed increase...ive tried it with about 20 games...and except the big ones +10mb that give me a white screen with
the psp shutting down they all work pretty good....keep up the good work...and one more thing....you are very very good...i havent
seen anybody updating an emulator every 2-3 days...your progresss is amazing
mike on Jul 3 2006, 23:10
i have a question that i think youre going to answer me tommorow because i think you must be pretty tired....can you tell me which are
the roms that usually work....i mean size...the ones you have tested on....i really dont know which i should download...i know youll
probably say that i have to try it on my own...but i want aless time wasting way
mike on Jul 3 2006, 23:17
and one last thing...why did v1.0.1 didnt work on my psp 2.5...v 1.0.2 worked.....v1.0.3 didnt work and v1.0.4 worked...strange thing
mike on Jul 3 2006, 23:19
May be you can try unzipped version ?
Cheers,
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 3 2006, 23:29
All
zx-81 on Jul 3 2006, 23:32
I've fixed many buffer overflow in this version . This might explain those results.
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 3 2006, 23:33
zx YOU THE MAN!!!!!!!!! it is awesome great job!!!
matt on Jul 3 2006, 23:42
how far from the top speed would you say zx? like 20% more? or what just curiosu
matt on Jul 3 2006, 23:53
It depends of the game ... For given games i'm already 100%, for others i'm very far ...
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 3 2006, 23:55
very nice. all roms have worked for me! even the 16 mb ones! i love you zx.
Joe on Jul 4 2006, 00:05
hey zx-81, i have just one small request.ok pretty much all the DBZ game for this emulator works. except for one. its called DBZ buu's
fury. u can play for about ten minutes then it says "this game cannot run on this hardware". the problem is that it doesnt work on your
VBA port witch is 1.7.2. but heres the thing. it works on the older VBA pc version Visual boy andvance 1.1. is these some kind of
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code that u can take from v 1.1 and put it in yours? if u could do this it would MEAN ALOT. thanx
PSPFAN on Jul 4 2006, 00:14
AWESOME WORK!!! this emulator is commin along so good its impressive. alls this emulator needs now is good sound then after
that its pretty much one of the best emulators out there. i cant wait for the next release. i check this site daily. hey zx-81 do u think u
can work on the sound a bit more? like do u think u can make the sound clear on the next release? like the real GBA sound? lol im
just wonderin.
pspdude on Jul 4 2006, 00:33
based on the size of the game affects the speed?
matt on Jul 4 2006, 00:49
ZX-Is there a possibility that the sound will improve? I can handle the speed but the sound needs work. I love good sound.
Bastion on Jul 4 2006, 01:33
I'm a professional programmer, but this is f***ing amazing!
I take my hat off to you sir.. absolutley wicked stuff! keep it up!
tim on Jul 4 2006, 01:39
just a small suggestion. do u thing u could put an option on that alows the user to switch screen smoothing on and off? and better
sound is always good keeo up the good work dude.
goku on Jul 4 2006, 01:55
why wont my rom play my pokemon emarald rom its 16mb i have firmwere 2.6 and elader bock whatz the problem plz help
khaseim on Jul 4 2006, 02:11
my email is [email protected] plz help
khaseim on Jul 4 2006, 02:13
everything works fine for me, i have firmware 1.5 ive tried all the pokemon roms and 16mb roms and everything works fine for me.
pspman on Jul 4 2006, 02:47
how come the game i got after downloaded is the space ship shooting scene instead of the one displayed?
zosse on Jul 4 2006, 02:52
ok great now when we will have the next version? xaxaxa im just kidding but your updates are so fast. like your emulator
i wonder when we are going to see so many releases for pspuae
Keep up the good work
Exoskeletor on Jul 4 2006, 03:21
not on 2.6 screen gose white
khaseim on Jul 4 2006, 04:06
This really is great work, I can now run Nightmare in Dreamland at playable speeds with the ARM tick at 5 and sound off. I know
enough french to understand that the first comment was asking about this setting, but not enough to really understand your reply.
Would you mind explaining it again in english? Also how exactly does the turbo function? With settings around 4-5 it is able to run at
full speed but artifacting is really bad.
Soban on Jul 4 2006, 04:32
Merci Zx d'avoir expliqué à quoi sert le ARM, chez toutes les roms fonctionnent. Meme celle de 16 mo.
Je voulais savoir si dans tes prochaine release la vitesse contiura d'augmenter?
Merci et beau boulo.
Airtoof on Jul 4 2006, 10:29
i think something is wrong with my psp 2.5...because i must have tried about 30 gba games...and the ones with 5-8 mb worked very
well...the ones with 8-16....worked in the beginnning but then turned psp to black screen at some point of the game....and the ones
with 16mb that give me a white screen.....could you tell me if its something about the psp or are the roms bad...because i have tried
all of them on vba first on my pc...and they all owrked fine...but i am still happy with the ones that work....i waited so long for
something like this to appear....great job
george on Jul 4 2006, 12:04
Friend can you make it to remeber the rom folder?
Exoskeletor on Jul 4 2006, 12:12
Also can you make it to display the name of the current loaded game in 2 lines? because some times 1 line is not enough
Exoskeletor on Jul 4 2006, 12:16
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This emulator need a lot of memory to work, and on 2.5/2.6FW it may happens that there are not enough "good" memory block
available. I've modified the rom/ram allocation in this version, using static buffer. But it seems no to be the best solution .
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 4 2006, 13:02
Not so hard to do .
Zx
zx-81 on Jul 4 2006, 13:03
Merci . On doit pouvoir gratter encore un peu
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 4 2006, 13:05
On psp 2.x roms bigger then 16 megs dont work, you just get the white screen......Zx I am sure you can fix this prob soon . I would
say that more of a speed increase is much more important at this point then making sound better lol. But very nice work so far Zx....
BloodLusT-42o- on Jul 4 2006, 13:46
Vu que le son n'est pas super bien émulé, peut etre pourrais-tu l'enlever pour augmenter la vitesse, sinon est-ce qu'il est possible à la
place du son de jouer des music au format mp3 contenu dans le dossier music de la psp cela serait peut-etre plus avantageux, je ne
sais pas, ce ne sont que des suggestions. Merci de me repondre.
Anonymous on Jul 4 2006, 15:13
Merci ZX-81 pour ton job sur cet émulateur. La scène PSP te doit bcp bcp et moi mon pied c'est les mumules sur ma PSP.
Je te place parmi mes codeurs préférés avec NJ, Ruka et la team de Yoyofr.
Vous vous féfoncezpour nous sortir des emule qui déchire MERCI MERCI.
Et si tu pouvais passer sur notre site http://mobiles.gx-mod.com pour nous transmettre l'info ca nous ferait plaisir. On a un forum PSP
et il y une section devellopement dans ce forum. Passse ca me ferait superplaisir car c'est moi qui news la plupart de tes release.
Merci man et continue et si je pouvais te filez de la thunes je le ferai mais je ne peut pas car j'ai pas de carte de crédit et pas de
compte paypal. Dommage car tu mérite qu'on t'encourage !!! Ciao et milles merci pour ton taff.
ALI on Jul 4 2006, 16:01
when functions pokemon smaragt? that does not need flash room 128 KB that because of functions it: (
Hakan on Jul 4 2006, 18:50
Salut ALI,
Merci pour le petit mot
Je suis deja passé sur ton forum il y a quelques temps , mais je me souviens que c'etait pas tres facile de poster des news dessus.
(et puis je fais deja les news en anglais lol).
Zx
zx-81 on Jul 4 2006, 19:18
It's very impressive how many improvement you did on this emulator in just few days! Thanks a lot for your great job!
I think that if you'll put your hands on a SNES emulator you could do a better job than other that did it till now (since SNES is less
powerfull and less "resources eater" than GBA)
Damon on Jul 4 2006, 20:31
Vu que le son n'est pas super bien émulé, peut etre pourrais-tu l'enlever pour augmenter la vitesse, sinon est-ce qu'il est possible à la
place du son de jouer des music au format mp3 contenu dans le dossier music de la psp cela serait peut-etre plus avantageux, je ne
sais pas, ce ne sont que des suggestions.
Anonymous on Jul 4 2006, 20:51
Screwing around with settings and frame skip along with the new mode, I have Legend Of Zelda-link to the past running at NEAR
PERFECT speed. you can see the skipping, but its fast enough to able to beat a perfect game with. I'm telling you ZX I predict perfect
speed within the next 2-4 updates, If you still choose to work on, wich I hope you do.
Dementia
Dementia on Jul 4 2006, 23:23
grrrrreat...one of the best psp emu...
thank u sooo much..
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only want to know why some rom (not bigger than 6 mega)freeze, at the same point, when game already run..
the game is Mario & Luigi Superstar saga..
thanx ciao
okami on Jul 5 2006, 00:02
im new at this thing, does this work on the v2.71? also what other things does it need for it to run?
boy on Jul 5 2006, 03:03
sorry boy, homebrew cant run on anything higher than 2.6
dude on Jul 5 2006, 03:18
WOW your work is the best you work hard on any emulator ... respect i like your work .... when you have time do you can look on this
emulator i like COMODORE AMIGA 500 games here is the link http://www.armyofhonor.com/gb.php
but the man he hat work on it have nothing updates for ist do you can work on the emulato ?
Gerd on Jul 5 2006, 08:22
hey, ive been playin and i noticed that my games are running too slow, even with the sound off... can u tell me whats goin off? thanks
BiRi on Jul 5 2006, 18:23
I FOUND A WORKING P0KEM0N EMARELD FOR PSPVBA AND RUNS SMOTHLIY ON 2.6 FIRM IF U WANT IT EMAIL ME BUT U
HAVE TRADE ME A WORKING FIRE RED OR LEAF GREEN FOR 2.6
khaseim on Jul 5 2006, 20:16
I've found the bug that make crash pokemon fire ... The fix would be available in next release
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 6 2006, 00:20
thats great news!! hopefully the sound will be improved in the next release. thanx alot zx-81.
dev on Jul 6 2006, 00:58
Est-ce que dans la prochaine release, la vitesse augmentera encore?
Anonymous on Jul 6 2006, 01:03
I hope also .
We're waiting for the next release
Exoskeletor on Jul 6 2006, 01:49
Un peu, mais ne t'attend pas a un miracle. Par contre le son sera legerement "plus audible" ..
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 6 2006, 09:02
the bug you found in pokemon red would also fix the other games too?
matt on Jul 6 2006, 20:11
I don't know, i've tried only this one, but i would say yes for all games with a rom size less than 16Mb.
Zx.
zx-81 on Jul 6 2006, 20:21
sgsdfg
adasd on Jul 31 2006, 06:34
hey can u please tell me how to work gba roms on my psp 2.5. i looked every where and i couldn't find out how to work gba roms on
psp 2.5. pls email me on
[email protected]
my gba roms keep crashing. pls help me.
Anonymous on Nov 23 2006, 09:44
thi sis secon demulator i download its great stuff you the man
rod on Jan 23 2007, 23:30
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eric mortey on Mar 9 2007, 20:38
can it work on 2.86
Anonymous on Apr 20 2007, 13:13
how do you work this on your psp what folder do you put it under
danny on Sep 13 2007, 11:13
i hope it is free
Anonymous on Jan 24 2009, 19:47
of course it's free ... i'm not working for $ony
btw, the best gba emu on psp is gpsp,
Zx
zx-81 on Jan 24 2009, 19:51
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