VGBA Ported to Maemo
 

I have just ported Virtual GameBoy Advance (VGBA) to Maemo OS2008. Get it from this post or from the web site:

http://fms.komkon.org/VGBA/

This version is highly optimized and uses code from the Symbian version. Thanks to those optimizations, VGBA-Maemo should run at almost the original GBA speed. Please notice that VGBA-Maemo is currently in the beta development stage. Test it and report any problems.

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Tried with Hot Wheels Velocity X, but couldn't find the start button... Overall works fine.

Thanks!

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strange, remember the post on this saying no sound.
I get sound from pac-man world.
excellent emu.
cant wait for controls.
also notice the scanline feature.
When can we expect a skin with buttons.

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Seems like the different regions on the touchscreen are the controls... :)

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Thanks for this port! seems to run really well! I just need to figure out how to control it ^_^

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There's stylus help in the menu, you can see the regions with it. Just tried Riviera and it runs really well.

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i Just realize nokia didn't have left handed people in mind when they developed the tablet...
Nokia 1000 people die a year because of freaking products that were only made with right-handed people in mind....come on now.

Bomberman works really well, with sound.

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Oh, now it's Nokia's fault that people are left-handed?!?!? :D

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Weeeee, Street Fighter Alpha 3 here we come ;)

Quick testing - Final Fight, Tekken, Metal Slug, and a lot more roms work.

Unfortunately emulator is rather slow on my N810.
VGBA fails to remember the last roms directory I selected.
Would be nice to have zipped roms support.

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Either N810 ENTER key or the right-bottom screen corner, whichever you like best.

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I left sound enabled in the beta version. It still sucks though - there just isn't enough CPU time to render it properly, I'm afraid.

Controls are all there. Enable "Stylus Cues" from the menu to see how the screen is divided into control areas.

I won't do a skin like that - I think they are garish and interfere with the gaming experience. Just enable the cue grid and learn where buttons are - it isn't labeled but I guess you won't need the labels ;)

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It is pretty fast on mine (as far as GBA emulators go of course). You may be running something else.

This stuff isn't there yet - it is a beta.

It supports GZIPped ROMs. Just get a copy of gzip, go into your ROMs directory, and do gzip *.gba. VGBA doesn't support .ZIP because .ZIP is clumsy.

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Possible the A and B button could be move.
being right in the center doesn't play well with some games.

maybe a different stylus cue layout.
where the AB buttons are not in the middle.
Not sure but the directional pad Hotspots on the screen are not needed, IMO.

enjoying lots of GBA games not.
thanks again for this awesome port.

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Well, suggest a different layout then - I am not happy with them at the middle myself, but where to move them?

Maybe for your N800, but not for my N810 which has the physical directional pad hidden most of the time, and not very usable anyway (the directional rim is tiny).

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I am curious as to how you get the games off the GBA cartridges and into another format...

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here is what i was thinking....but i don't know how hard it would be to make this happen, so be easy on me.

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http://www.gameboy-advance.net/
this links show a couple of things you can use to do so.

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It is not hard to make this happen, but I do not see the directional keys in this picture.

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n810 users...I forgot.
Let me see if i can do another quick layout

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Maybe 2...

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This leaves about 60 pixels ((800-2*240)/2/2) of width for LEFT and RIGHT buttons. This is ~7.5% of the total screen width for each button - they will be mighty easy to miss.

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make the right and left the size of the original AB....
Think that might work.

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You mean, 1/3 of the screen? Then it comes down to 800/3/2=133 pixels (in full screen mode). Yea, this one may actually do the job.

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I wasn't thinking about window mode.

hmmm.....
Im pretty sure there are others out there with some suggestions in mind.
maybe someone will come up with something you can use.

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Also notice that in the window mode there is a column of Maemo icons at the left. Those are rather easy to press accidentally if you place the directional pad close to them. But this one inconvenience may be unavoidable.

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in window mode.
VGBA Maemo 3.5
|------L-------|
_____________|
|------UP------|
_____________|
|-left--|--right-|
_____________|
|----Down----|
_____________|
|------S-------|
_____________|
|
_____________|


with the Title being the guide for the size of the buttons.
hope this helps for window mode.

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I don't see any reason to support windowed mode in an emulator. (excepting dosbox which needs some space for xkbd).

Btw: If you want to scale the game window, I've heard it's possible to have fb-controller scale a region arbitrarily (leaving a buttons region unscaled). See mplayer sources for implementation.

Very nice emu fms. It was a little shocking to see an emulated 3d game running at 10+ fps.

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Alright! Can't wait to try.
Now all we need is a DS emu. (yeah, sarcasm)

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I've only tried it with a couple of games, it seems to run at a very decent speed, once sound has been disabled. The sound on the games I've tried doesn't really work anyways.

I agree that the on-screen buttons need to be changed. My thumbs are in the way when I'm trying to make Mario jump and throw turnips.

I don't want to lose windowed mode, at least not until a fast way is discovered to fill the screen. The emulator's screen looks so lonely in the middle of the big full screen.

Here is a screen shot of Super Mario Advance. Our protagonists are squatting and grunting, sweat drops flying...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/...975cb5d4_o.png

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My goal is to be as system friendly as possible and this means windowed mode support.

I am scaling the window already anyways. The problem of scaling it farther is that it will look bad unless you repeat each pixel the same number of times. I do have the scale+soften mode which can be used to fill the whole screen with a very smooth image, but it is too slow on the tablet.

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FMS check EMUL8 groups for an updated stylus cue layout.

I think might work....

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you are the greatest. keep up the good work!

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Just tried some various Pokemon games, but they are running pretty slow and the colors look awful. Also is there a way to disable the sound, cause it sounds horrendous.

EDIT: Okay found out how to do it. Just start it from the terminal with -nosound, but the colors still look awkward.

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you can remove sound from the menu.
drop down menu>configuration

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In yu gi oh stair to the duelist it freezes and turns all black when you attack a monster

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Could you please post a picture of the awkward colors?

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I like it alot... seems very promising... thanks so much! But I agree that the button placement is not good. Could you make it so the enter button was A or B on the N800? It doesnt do anything for me in-game.

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Wow! This runs great. I'm looking at Zelda: A Link to the Past and it's amazing. If you could have custom hardware key mapping besides the onscreen controls it would be fantastic. Thanks for the port!

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If you mean the center button in the d-pad, it does nothing on purpose: this button is so easy to press accidentally that using it for a fire button will make some games unplayable.

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Public website
http://fms.komkon.org/VGBA/

Google groups
http://groups.google.com/group/emul8?hl=en

VGBA compatibility list.
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...242#post154242