VisualBoyAdvance-M
VisualBoyAdvance-M (commonly abbreviated as VBA-M) is a cross-platform emulator for the (Super-) Game Boy/Colour/Advance portable game consoles.
It is a fork of VisualBoyAdvance, a now closed project. VBA-M combines features from several other VBA forks. It is licensed under the GPLv2, and is available in the Community repository.
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Installation
VBA-M is available in three different versions: vbam-gtk[broken link: package not found], vbam-wx and vbam-sdl.
Usage
For VBA-M with vbam-wx, execute visualboyadvance-m ~/path/to/foo.* or visualboyadvance-m to load the ROM from the interface.
For VBA-M with vbam-sdl, execute vbam ~/path/to/foo.* or vbam to load the ROM from the interface.
| Emulated | Real |
|---|---|
| Left | Left Arrow (0114) |
| Right | Right Arrow (0113) |
| Up | Up Arrow (0111) |
| Down | Down Arrow (0112) |
| A | Z (007a) |
| B | X (0078) |
| L | A (0061) |
| R | S (0073) |
| Start | Enter (000d) |
| Select | Backspace (0008) |
| Speed up | Space (0020) |
| Capture | F12 (0125) |
Troubleshooting
OpenGL crashes
In case of OpenGL errors, it is possible that the video output is set to an invalid display. Editing the Display section in ~/.config/gvbam/config, and changing output=1 to output=2 or output=0
Directories randomly reverted
VBA may randomly revert the ROM directories to the defaults. Changing permissions for ~/.config/gvbam/config to read-only will prevent VBA from doing so.
To manually set the directories, edit the [Directories] section of ~/.config/gvbam/config.
[Directories] gb_roms= gba_roms= batteries= cheats= saves= captures=