visualboyadvance-m
The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator. (by visualboyadvance-m)
Gearboy
Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator and debugger for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch. (by drhelius)

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visualboyadvance-m | Gearboy | |
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25 | 5 | |
3,444 | 922 | |
1.2% | 2.1% | |
9.2 | 8.8 | |
7 days ago | 18 days ago | |
C++ | C++ | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
visualboyadvance-m
Posts with mentions or reviews of visualboyadvance-m.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-09.
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Can't trade with self on gen2 via VBA-M
Sorry if this has been asked a million times already, but I can't figure out how to get trading to work on my laptop with the VBA-M. I looked at a bunch of videos, but those have only been VBA or gen3 and beyond. I found this link https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/issues/604 where the exact issue I am having occurs.
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golden sun 2 save file?
I always recommend mGBA these days, and it has "Partial support" for the link cable: https://mgba.io/faq.html . If not I know for a fact I got it working on VBA-m before: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases/tag/v2.1.5
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Found a CIB pokemon fire red in a pawn shop in Boston for $175
Sure thing. MyBoy emulator actually supports link cable emulation between two instances of the emulator on two phones, and so do other gba emulators on PC, like vba-m: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m
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Help with visualboyadvance saves
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to reproduce your problem. I downloaded visualboyadvance-m-Win-64bit.zip, loaded Pokemon FireRed (with default settings), and was able to save with no issue.
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Bi-Weekly Questions Thread
Definitely recommend VBA-M
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How do I get rid of the red numbers? (visualboyadvance)
Well, there is still VBA-M (https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/VisualBoy_Advance#VBA-M, https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m ) which is a fork of VBA that is still seems to be maintained with recent commits (though last release appears to be back in 2019).
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How to connect ROTK GBA(emu) in multiplayer?
last version here: https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases
- VBA Issues
- GBC emulator with link emulation for Windows/PC?
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So in 2022, what reasons, if any (even minor ones), are there to use VBA-M over mGBA?
How long ago were you a developer though, out of curiosity? We're talking about an emulator with a repo updated as recently as seven hours ago, after all. It's not like it's unmaintained.
Gearboy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gearboy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-10.
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List of best emulators for each console! (2023)
Gearboy is not in that shootout.
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I finally wrote my first ever emulator (GameBoy)
There were multiple times where I got stuck with the CPU timings and the PPU. So I modified the Gearboy to print some extra info, like registers and timers, so I could compare with mine and figure out where it failed.
- Gearboy, a cross-platform Gameboy emulator (iOS too)
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[PS3 RetroArch Community Edition] I cant get the Game Gear Cores working
Gearboy is a Game Boy emulator. Gearsystem should work, though. Picodrive works, too, I think.
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So in 2022, what reasons, if any (even minor ones), are there to use VBA-M over mGBA?
I prefer Gearboy to Sameboy. It emulates the display flicker of a real Gameboy. Gave me a nostalgia kick.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing visualboyadvance-m and Gearboy you can also consider the following projects:
Ironmon-Tracker - A Lua script for the Bizhawk/mGBA emulator compatible with Pokemon Fire Red, Leaf Green, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald that tracks relevant data for the IronMon challenge.
snoopy - Snoopy Command Logger is a small library that logs all program executions on your Linux/BSD system.

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