VisualBoyAdvance-M

VisualBoyAdvance-M (commonly abbreviated as VBA-M) is a cross-platform emulator for the (Super-) Game Boy/Colour/Advance portable game consoles.

It is a fork of VisualBoyAdvance, a now closed project. VBA-M combines features from several other VBA forks. It is licensed under the GPLv2.

Installation

VBA-M is available in two different versions: vbam-wx and vbam-sdl.

Usage

For VBA-M with vbam-wx, execute visualboyadvance-m ~/path/to/foo.* or visualboyadvance-m to load the ROM from the interface.

For VBA-M with vbam-sdl, execute vbam ~/path/to/foo.*.

Tip: File extensions differ between emulated platforms. VBA-M also supports compressed ROMs.

Default controls

Emulated	Real
Left	Left Arrow (0114)
Right	Right Arrow (0113)
Up	Up Arrow (0111)
Down	Down Arrow (0112)
A	Z (007a)
B	X (0078)
L	A (0061)
R	S (0073)
Start	Enter (000d)
Select	Backspace (0008)
Speed up	Space (0020)
Capture	F12 (0125)

Troubleshooting

OpenGL crashes

In case of OpenGL errors, it is possible that the video output is set to an invalid display. Editing the Display section in ~/.config/gvbam/config, and changing output=1 to output=2 or output=0

Directories randomly reverted

VBA may randomly revert the ROM directories to the defaults. Changing permissions for ~/.config/gvbam/config to read-only will prevent VBA from doing so.

Warning: This also prevents any other configuration from being saved.

To manually set the directories, edit the [Directories] section of ~/.config/gvbam/config.

[Directories]
gb_roms=
gba_roms=
batteries=
cheats=
saves=
captures=