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mGBA Git (2025/12/10) is an advanced emulator for Game Boy Advance games, designed for speed and accuracy. It supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color, runs on low-end hardware, and offers both heavyweight and lightweight frontends (Qt and SDL). Features include local link cable support, motion sensor and rumble cartridge compatibility, real-time clock, solar sensor support for Boktai, built-in BIOS, savestates, cheat code support, video recording, and customizable controls. The emulator also supports multiple file formats and has community translation options. The latest changelog includes various fixes and improvements to the Qt and Libretro interfaces.
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mGBA Git (2025/12/10) has been released. mGBA is an innovative emulator designed for playing Game Boy Advance titles. Its goal is to outperform many existing Game Boy Advance emulators in terms of speed and accuracy while incorporating features that are often missing in other emulators.
Features:
* Accurate support for Game Boy Advance hardware[1].
* Compatibility with Game Boy/Game Boy Color hardware.
* High-speed emulation capable of running on low-end devices, including netbooks.
* Available as both Qt and SDL ports for a robust and lightweight frontend.
* Support for local link cable functionality.
* Automatic save type detection, including flash memory size[2].
* Functionality for cartridges equipped with motion sensors and rumble (only when using game controllers).
* Real-time clock functionality without manual setup required.
* Solar sensor capability for Boktai games.
* Support for Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer.
* Integrated BIOS along with options to load external BIOS files.
* Turbo/fast-forward enabled by holding the Tab key.
* Rewind functionality by holding Backquote.
* Configurable frameskip options, up to 10.
* Support for taking screenshots.
* Capability to utilize cheat codes.
* 9 savestate slots, which can also be viewed as screenshots.
* Recording options for video, GIF, WebP, and APNG formats.
* e-Reader compatibility.
* Customizable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
* Ability to load from ZIP and 7z archives.
* Support for IPS, UPS, and BPS patch files.
* Game debugging using a command-line interface and GDB remote support, compatible with IDA Pro.
* Configurable emulation rewinding.
* Support for loading and exporting GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
* Available cores for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
* Community-driven translations in various languages via Weblate.
* Numerous additional minor enhancements.
mGBA Git Changelog:
* Qt: Improved recent PR
* ShaderSelector::makePage supports zipped shaders
* Minor style adjustments and clarifications in comments
* Replaced STL classes with Qt equivalents
* Qt: Shader uniforms now appear in order
* Libretro: Resolved warning issues
* Libretro: Adjusted aspect ratio calculation (fixes #3642)
