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mGBA Git (2025/11/04) is a newly compiled emulator for Game Boy Advance games, designed to be faster and more accurate than existing alternatives. Key features include accurate hardware support for Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, and Game Boy Color, fast emulation even on low-end devices, local link cable support, and save type detection. It also supports motion sensors, real-time clock functions, and solar sensors for Boktai games. Additional features include cheat code support, configurable controls, savestates, various recording options, and community translations. The latest update enhances tools and cheat support, ensuring an improved user experience.
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mGBA Git (2025/11/04) has been compiled. mGBA is a modern emulator designed to play Game Boy Advance games. It strives to offer improved speed and accuracy compared to many current Game Boy Advance emulators, incorporating features that are often missing in other emulators.
Features:
* Highly precise support for Game Boy Advance hardware[1].
* Compatibility with Game Boy/Game Boy Color hardware.
* Fast emulation, able to run smoothly on low-end devices like netbooks.
* Available in Qt and SDL versions for heavier and lighter interfaces.
* Local link cable support for multi-player on the same machine.
* Detection of save types, including flash memory size[2].
* Compatibility with cartridges featuring motion sensors and rumble (for use with game controllers).
* Real-time clock functionality, without requiring setup.
* Support for solar sensor in Boktai games.
* Capabilities for Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer.
* Integrated BIOS functionality along with support for external BIOS files.
* Turbo/fast-forward feature accessible by holding Tab.
* Rewind feature by holding Backquote.
* Configurable frameskip, adjustable up to 10.
* Screenshot capturing support.
* Cheat code functionality.
* 9 savestate slots, with savestates viewable as screenshots.
* Recording options for Video, GIF, WebP, and APNG.
* e-Reader compatibility.
* Customizable controls for keyboards and gamepads.
* Support for loading from ZIP and 7z archives.
* Compatibility with IPS, UPS, and BPS patches.
* Game debugging through a command-line interface and GDB remote support, compatible with IDA Pro.
* Configurable emulation rewinding.
* Loading and exporting capabilities for GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
* Cores available for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
* Community-sourced translations in multiple languages through Weblate.
* Numerous additional minor improvements.
mGBA Git Changelog:
* CMake: Updated minimum version to 3.12
* Introduced AppStream Metainfo generation
* Tools: Require bash for sanitize-deb for -o pipefail
* Qt: Corrected version number comparison
* Tools: Added -euo pipefail to sanitize-deb
* Cheats: Incorporated support for CodeBreaker 5XXXXXXX “Super” codes
* CMake: Included vfs-fd in CORE_VFS_SRC when ENABLE_VFS_FD is on (fixes #3612)
