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'''[[mGBA''' ]] is an open -source emulator of the [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advanceemulator]]. The goals are It aims for both speed and accuracy.

* [https://endrift.com/mgba.io/downloads.html Stable and nightliesnightly builds]

==LinksNotable features==mGBA is a GBA emulator written from scratch with portability, accuracy and performance in mind. As of yet, it is the most complete GBA emulation effort. It aims to be easier to port and maintain than its older counterpart, [https://mgba.io/2016/07/11/mgba[VBA]] (or VBA-0M).4It's also available as a [[Libretro|libretro]] core.1/ 0.4.1 Release Notes and Feature list]Notable features over other GBA emulators include:

* [https://twittermgba.comio/mgba_emu Twitter Account2014/12/28/classic-nes/ NES Classic series compatibility]* Local link cable support, up to 4 players* Complete solar sensor emulation (Boktai series), without the need of game-specific patches* Tilt sensor (WarioWare: Twisted!, Yoshi's Universal Gravity)* Rumble Pak (Drill Dozer, WarioWare: Twisted!)

==Important Features==Some other perks mGBA is an open-source Game boy Advance emulator written from scratch with portability, accuracy and performance in mind. As of yet, it is the most complete GBA emulation effort.  This emulator aims to be easier to port and maintain than its older counterpart, VBA (or VBA-M). It's present as a Retroarch core. Notable features over other GBA emulators includeoffers are: * Only GBA emulator thus far to load the NES Classic series due to a peculiar DRM system Nintendo implemented for those (which display "Game Pack Error" and crash on start-up for all other GBA emulators)* Local link cable support (up to 4 players)* Functional Solar Sensor (Boktai series) emulation. Besides no$gba (where this feature is emulated in a limited way), other emulators would need the ROM image to be modified, and the fix isn't very ideal.

The emulator also has functional tilt emulation * Save states <!-- would be more notable if it didn't support them -->* Fast-forwarding and rewinding* Very basic cheat code support (AR, GS, CB), though without search options* Real-time clock (WarioWare TwistedBoktai series, Yoshi's Universal GravityPokémon series, Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation), synced to system time or set arbitrarily* Support for BPS/beat, IPS and variable rumble emulation UPS patching at runtime, including ROMs in compresed archives (Drill Dozer.7z/.zip)* Game overrides, forcing games to use specific save formats or sensors (tilt, solar, etc. Yet their controls are disabled in all current builds and hence unusable for now for the end-user.)

Emulator's authors claim they're working on adding more And finally, there are some other currently unimplemented but planned features like.<ref>https:* GC/GBA connectivity (with Dolphin), being worked on atm/mgba.* eio/2014/12/09/announcing-Reader emulation (incomplete in other emulators with no active development as of now).* TAS and romhacking oriented options.mgba/</ref> These include:

Some other perks mGBA offers are:* Basic save state support GC/GBA connectivity with rewinding.Dolphin* Faste-forwarding is available (TAB key)Reader emulation* Very basic cheat code support (AR, GS, CB), no search TAS and ROM hacking-oriented options.* Real-time clock support (used in Pokémon games), with the option to synch it to system time or set it to an arbitrary value.* Can patch games at runtime with translation/romhack patches in BPS (beat) format. Like some other GBA emulators, it can also use IPS and UPS (tsukyomi) patches, and load games from zip/7zip archives without the need to uncompress it (unlike no$gba)* Can force the game to use specific save formats, but also specific sensors (mostly unemulated altogether in other emulators).

==References=={{Game Boy Advance emulatorsreflist}} ==External links==* [https://mgba.io/2016/07/11/mgba-0.4.1/ 0.4.1 release notes and feature list]* [https://twitter.com/mgba_emu mGBA Twitter account] <!--{{lowercase titleGame Boy Advance emulators}}-->