SwanAdvance GBA

SwanAdvance
General
Author	FluBBa (Fredrik Olsson)
Type	Handheld
Version	0.1
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2006/07/28
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SwanAdvance is a Bandai WonderSwanColor emulator for the GBA.

Features

• Can play the FinalFantasy games at super slow speed.

Installation

Run SwanAdvance.exe to add roms to the emulator.

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 SMS/GG button.
• Use R as Start - Map the GBA R button to the GG Start button.
• Use Select as Reset - Map the GBA SELECT button to the SMS Reset button.

Display:

• Gamma - Lets you change the gamma ("brightness").
• Border - Doesn't work yet.
• 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.

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.
• 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 SMSAdvance.

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

Controls

Menu:

Up/Down - Select game

B/A - Start selected game

In game:

L+R - Open the menu

A - Choose

B or L+R - Cancel

Start+Select - Wake up from Sleep mode

Screenshots

swanadvance5.png

Changelog

V0.1 2006/07/28

• Initial release.

V0.0 2006/07/23

• Started Coding.

Credits

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

Thanks to:

• The crew at PocketHeaven for their support.
• LiraNuna for some inspiration.
• Bryan McPhail & Oliver Bergmann for the cpu code.

External links

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