MGBA

Current version:	0.1.1
Active:	Active
OS:	Windows, OS X
Authors:	Jeffrey Pfau (endrift)
Official website:	mGBA
Source code:	GitHub

mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.

Features

(taken from GitHub)

• Near full Game Boy Advance hardware support.
• Fast emulation. Known to run at full speed even on low end hardware, such as netbooks.
• Qt and SDL ports for a heavy-weight and a light-weight frontend.
• Save type detection, even for flash memory size.
• Real-time clock support, even without configuration.
• A built-in BIOS implementation, and ability to load external BIOS files.
• Turbo/fast-forward support by holding Tab.
• Frameskip, configurable up to 9.
• Screenshot support.
• 9 savestate slots. Savestates are also viewable as screenshots.
• Video and GIF recording.
• Remappable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
• Loading from ZIP and 7z files.
• IPS, UPS and BPS patch support.
• Game debugging via a command-line interface (not available with Qt port) and GDB remote support.
• Configurable emulation rewinding.

Nightlies also support:

• 4-player multiplayer
• Solar support (needed for Boktai games)
• Gyroscope support
• Tilt support
• Modification of RTC (permits fast berry-growing in Pokémon games)

Planned Features

• Local and networked multiplayer link cable support
• Dolphin/JOY bus link cable support
• Re-recording support for tool-assist runs
• Lua support for scripting
• A comprehensive debug suite
• libretro core for RetroArch
• OpenEmu support
• Video filtering support (including desaturation support and texture filtering)
• Audio filtering support
• Plugin system
• Hardware renderer
• Wireless adapter support
• Import/Export of GameShark and Action Replay save files
• e-Reader support

Links

Twitter Account