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

Revision as of 05:24, 9 September 2022

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 cannot merge 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, seslect your rom files to create .gba (see also this tutorial with photos).

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