HVCA GBA

HVCA
File:Hvca2.png
General
Author	outside-agb
Type	Console
Version	1.40
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2008/07/13
Links
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Website
Source

HVCA, or Home Video Computer Advance, is a NES emulator for the Game Boy Advance (formerly known as Unofficial Famicom Advance/UFCA)

Based on the original Famicom Advance, various functions such as support for new mappers have been greatly expanded. It supports sound, custom palette, real-time save, rapid-fire key, FDS emulation, NSF player, PogoShell plugin.

Support Mapper: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, (9), (10), 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 65, 66, 67 , 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, (77), 78, 80, 82, (85), 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 101 , 113, 118, 122, 180, 184, 185.

Installation

Method 1 - Basic:

hvca
 |-add/
 |  |-*.cfg
 |  |-*.nes
 |  |-*.nsf
 |  |-*.fds
 |  |-disksys.rom
 |-bin/
 |-cfg(samples)/
 |-hvcamkfs.exe
 |-merge.bat

• hvcamkfs.exe does not support kana (including double-byte alphanumeric characters).
• Run merge.bat. hvca.bin is output.
• Add license code and create hvca.bin > hvca.gba.

Method 2 - NES2FCA:

hvca
 |-add/
 |  |-*.nsf (NES2FCA does not support NSF)
 |  |-disksys.rom
 |
 |-bin/
 |-cfg(samples)/
 |-hvcamkfs.exe
 |-merge.bat

nes2fca
 |-nes2fca.exe
 |-nes2fca.cfg

<PATH>/*.cfg
<PATH>/*.nes
<PATH>/*.fds

• Run merge.bat. hvca.bin is output.
• Put hvca.bin in the nes2fca directory.
• Replace the modified nes2fca.cfg included in the download.
• Run NES2FCA to create .gba (tutorial).

When you start the emulator for the first time it will show you the Internal WRAM setting screen.

Controls

          +- INIT MENU
          |       |
      Hold [R]    |
          |       V
BOOT -(LD)+> GAME MENU <--- [R]/[L] ---------------> SRAM MENU
       A      |                                       A   |
       |      |   +-----> Unscale/Scale               |   |
       |     [A] Hold [R]                            [L] [R]
       |      |   | +[U]/[D](Unscale Y offset)        |   |
       |      V   |                                   |   V
       |     Emulation <--- [R]/[L] --------------->
       |               <--- Hold [R](Reset) -------  CONFIG MENU
       +------------------- Hold [R]+[L](Reboot)---

NSF:

L+R - Exit

Down/Up - Next/Previous NSF

Right/Left - Next/Previous track

Screenshots

Known issues

Does not work as intended on VisualBoy Advance 1.8.0.

Only one save slot for real-time saves.

Saving on the Famicom Disk System is not supported (possible if real-time save is used).

External links

• Official website - http://mc68882.s53.xrea.com/
• Yahoo! Groups - https://web.archive.org/web/20050407093347/http://groups.yahoo.co.jp/group/outside-agb/