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mGBA is an advanced emulator for Game Boy Advance games, aiming for superior speed and accuracy. Key features include support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color hardware, fast emulation on low-end devices, local link cable support, and various save options. It supports motion sensors, real-time clocks, screenshots, and even camera/printer functionalities. Additional capabilities include video recording, cheat code support, remappable controls, and patch compatibility. The latest update (2025/12/28) includes improvements like GLSL shader enhancements and better logging. Mappable core options are also available for RetroArch and OpenEmu, alongside community translations. Download available for x64.
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mGBA Git (2025/12/28) has been compiled. mGBA is an innovative emulator designed to run Game Boy Advance games. Its goal is to outperform many existing Game Boy Advance emulators in speed and accuracy, while also introducing features absent in other emulators.
Features:
* High accuracy in simulating Game Boy Advance hardware[1].
* Compatibility with Game Boy and Game Boy Color hardware.
* Fast emulation, capable of running at full speed even on less powerful hardware, including netbooks.
* Available in both Qt and SDL ports, catering to heavy-weight and light-weight frontends.
* Supports local link cable usage on the same computer.
* Detects save types, including those for flash memory size[2].
* Compatible with cartridges featuring motion sensors and rumble support (usable only with game controllers).
* Provides real-time clock functionality with no configuration needed.
* Supports solar sensors for Boktai games.
* Offers support for the Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer.
* Includes a built-in BIOS implementation, along with the ability to load external BIOS files.
* Turbo/fast-forward functionality when holding the Tab key.
* Rewind functionality by holding the Backquote key.
* Configurable frameskip, adjustable up to 10.
* Screenshot capability.
* Supports cheat codes.
* Offers 9 savestate slots, which can be viewed as screenshots.
* Recording options for video, GIF, WebP, and APNG formats.
* Support for e-Reader.
* Customizable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
* Load games from ZIP and 7z files.
* Compatibility with IPS, UPS, and BPS patches.
* Game debugging tools accessible through a command-line interface and GDB remote support, compatible with IDA Pro.
* Configurable emulation rewinding options.
* Facilitates loading and exporting GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
* Cores are available for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
* Community-driven translations for various languages available via Weblate.
* Numerous additional smaller features.
mGBA Git Changelog:
* Res: Improved GLSL for the MMPX shader.
* Qt: Fixed file logging from non-global loggers.
* Update: Enhanced logging with multiple retry attempts.
