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mGBA is an advanced emulator for Game Boy Advance games, designed for speed and accuracy. It features support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, with fast performance even on low-end devices. Notable functions include local link cable support, save type detection, and compatibility with motion sensor cartridges and real-time clocks. Users benefit from seamless control remapping, external BIOS loading, and various recording options. The emulator allows for cheat codes, multiple savestate slots, and game debugging. A recent update adds improvements to the GBA SIO and enhances threading and logging capabilities. Download the latest version from the source provided.
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mGBA Git (2026/02/02) has been compiled. mGBA is an innovative emulator designed to run Game Boy Advance games. Its goal is to provide enhanced speed and accuracy compared to many current Game Boy Advance emulators, alongside features absent in others.
Features:
* Exceptional Game Boy Advance hardware support[1].
* Compatibility with Game Boy/Game Boy Color hardware.
* Rapid emulation, capable of achieving full speed on low-end devices such as netbooks.
* Offers Qt and SDL versions for both a heavy-weight and a light-weight frontend.
* Supports local link cable functionality (same computer).
* Automatic save type detection, including for flash memory sizes[2].
* Compatibility with cartridges featuring motion sensors and rumble (controlled via gamepads).
* Real-time clock support without needing configuration.
* Solar sensor support for Boktai titles.
* Functionality for Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer.
* In-built BIOS implementation, with the option to load external BIOS files.
* Turbo/fast-forward feature by holding the Tab key.
* Rewind functionality by holding Backquote.
* Configurable frameskip, up to 10.
* Capability for taking screenshots.
* Cheat code support.
* 9 savestate slots, savestates viewable as screenshots.
* Recording options for Video, GIF, WebP, and APNG.
* e-Reader compatibility.
* Customizable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
* Loading from ZIP and 7z archives.
* Supports IPS, UPS, and BPS patch formats.
* Game debugging through a command-line interface with GDB remote support, compatible with IDA Pro.
* Configurable emulation rewinding.
* Supports loading and exporting GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
* Compatible cores available for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
* Community-contributed translations for multiple languages via Weblate.
* Numerous other enhancements.
mGBA Git Changelog:
* GBA SIO: Introduce logic for terminating ongoing transfers
* GBA SIO: Enhance GBASIOLockstepDriverStart logging
* GBA SIO: Insert missing mutex lock during reset
* Core: Implement crashing as a thread request
