MGBA 3DS: Difference between revisions

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mGBA is an emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack. It also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.

Up-to-date news and downloads can be found at mgba.io.

Features

Highly accurate Game Boy Advance hardware support[1].
Game Boy/Game Boy Color 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.
Local (same computer) link cable support.
Save type detection, even for flash memory size[2].
Support for cartridges with motion sensors and rumble (only usable with game controllers).
Real-time clock support, even without configuration.
Solar sensor support for Boktai games.
Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer support.
A built-in BIOS implementation, and ability to load external BIOS files.
Turbo/fast-forward support by holding Tab.
Rewind by holding Backquote.
Frameskip, configurable up to 10.
Screenshot support.
Cheat code 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 and GDB remote support, compatible with IDA Pro.
Configurable emulation rewinding.
Support for loading and exporting GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
Cores available for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
Many, many smaller things.

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-gpsp - 3DS Port ' gameplaySP (gpSP for short) is a GBA emulator written completely from scratch. It is still pretty young (only having started a 3 months prior to the first release) and thus rather immature, but it does a decent job of playing a number of games, and is being improved upon somewhat regularly. It is currently somewhat minimalistic, in the sourcecode, presentation, and features. Its number one focus is to deliver a GBA gaming experience in the most playable way that PSP can manage, with frills being secondary (although still a consideration, at least for some of them).
+mGBA is an emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack. It also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.
+Up-to-date news and downloads can be found at mgba.io.
+==Features==
+* Highly accurate Game Boy Advance hardware support[1].
+* Game Boy/Game Boy Color 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.
+* Local (same computer) link cable support.
+* Save type detection, even for flash memory size[2].
+* Support for cartridges with motion sensors and rumble (only usable with game controllers).
+* Real-time clock support, even without configuration.
+* Solar sensor support for Boktai games.
+* Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer support.
+* A built-in BIOS implementation, and ability to load external BIOS files.
+* Turbo/fast-forward support by holding Tab.
+* Rewind by holding Backquote.
+* Frameskip, configurable up to 10.
+* Screenshot support.
+* Cheat code 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 and GDB remote support, compatible with IDA Pro.
+* Configurable emulation rewinding.
+* Support for loading and exporting GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
+* Cores available for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
+* Many, many smaller things.