NGPAdvance GBA

NGPAdvance
General
Author	FluBBa (Fredrik Olsson)
Type	Handheld
Version	0.3
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2008/10/01
Links
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Website

NGPAdvance is a SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color emulator for the GBA.

Features

• Can play most games.

Installation

Run NGPAdvance.exe to add roms to the emulator, you can also add a real bios.

Do not overwrite the original .gba file.

User guide

Menu

Controller:

• Autofire - Select if you want autofire.
• Controller - 2P control player 2, Link is used to linkup 2 GBAs.
• Swap A/B - Swap which GBA button is mapped to which NGP button.

Display:

• Gamma - Lets you change the gamma ("brightness").
• Border - doesn't work yet.
• Palette - Choose which palette to use for mono games.
• Disable foreground - Turn on/off foreground rendering.
• Disable background: -Turn on/off background rendering.
• Disable sprites - Turn on/off sprite rendering.

Other Settings:

• VSync - Switch between speed modes, can also be toggled with L+START.
  • On - Will wait for the next vsync if needed, best for most games.
  • Force - Can help with graphics in some games, often slow.
  • Off - Can speed up some games if they don't allready use all cpu time.
  • Slowmo - Good for beating that extra fast game.
• FPS-Meter - Toggle fps meter.
• Autosleep - Change the autosleep time, also see Sleep.
• EWRAM Speed - Use with caution.
• Machine - NeoGeoPocketColor should work for most games.
• Language - Switch language settings for the NeoGeo Pocket.
• Speedhacks - Turn on/off speedhacks.
• Z80 - Turn the emulation of the Z80 on/off.
• Change batteries - Change batteries in the NGP.
• Change sub battery - Change the clock battery in the NGP.
• Use BIOS - doesn't work yet.
• CPU speed - Set the CPU speed of the NeoGeo Pocket, this doesn't lock the cpu speed, the games can still change it.

Save Manager:

• Save SRAM - Save the SRAM for the current game (it's automaticly loaded).
• Manage savememory - Lets you erase SRAM (for now).

Others:

• Sleep - Put the GBA into sleepmode (activated from this menu or from 5/10/30 minutes of inactivity).
• Restart - Lets you select a new game.
• Exit - Let's you exit the emulator back to Pogo or the FA/F2A menu.

Make sure your flashing software allocates 64kByte/512kbit SRAM for NGPAdvance.

Advanced

EWRAM speed:

• This changes the waitstate on EWRAM between 2 and 1.
• This can probably damage your GBA and definitly uses more power, around 10% speedgain.
• Use at your own risk.

PogoShell:

• Copy ngpadvance.gba to the plugin folder (or compress it to mbz before you copy it).
• Rename it to ngpadvance.bin and add either one of the following line to the pogo.cfg file:
  • ngp 1 ngpadvance.bin 2
  • ngp 1 ngpadvance.mbz 2

Controls

Menu:

Up/Dow - Select game

B/A - Start the selected game

In game:

L+R - Open the menu

A - Choose

B or L+R - Cancel

Start+Select - Wake up from Sleep mode

NeoGeo Pocket:

A - B

B - A

Screenshots

Changelog

V0.3 2008/10/01

• Fixed copy protection in "Metal Slug 2" (SNK logo in VRAM).
• Fixed control problem in "Rockman Battle & Fighters" (MIRR opcode).
• Fixed background glitch in "Memories of Pure" (HCount register).
• Fixed problems with DMA probably affecting many games.

V0.2 2008/09/04

• Added speedhacks for a lot of games.
• Added emulation of batteries & sub battery.
• Added RTC alarm.
• Added power button (SELECT).
• Added D button (R) (check "Doko Demo Mahjong").
• Fixed a couple of cpu bugs affecting "Metal Slug 1" and a couple of other games.

V0.1 2008/07/04

• Initial release.

V0.0 2008/04/02

• Started Coding.

Credits

Huge thanks to Loopy for the incredible PocketNES and the builder.

Thanks to:

• The crew at PocketHeaven for their support.
• All the people involved in developing other NGP emulators.
• Flavor for some ideas on NGP emulation and support.

External links

• Author's website - http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/gba.html (archived)
• GBARetro.com - http://www.ndsretro.com/gbadown.html