VisualBoyAdvance-M Git Update (December 7, 2025)

VisualBoyAdvance-M Git (2025/12/07) is a cross-platform emulator for Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac. The latest development build features corrections from recent merges, improved path handling, and numerous bug fixes, including issues with the RTC, DMA behavior, and memory access. Enhancements also include better color handling, a refactored EEPROM access logic, and updates to sound processing for improved performance. You can download the Windows version and access the changelog for detailed changes made in this build.

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VisualBoyAdvance-M Git (2025/12/07) has been compiled. VisualBoyAdvance-M(VBA-M) is a [Super] Game Boy [Color / Advance] emulator for Windows, Linux, and Mac. You can find the latest development build of the Windows version and download it while you’re here.

VisualBoyAdvance-M Git changelog:
* Fixed some warnings from the libretro merge
* build: corrected PATH handling for wxrc/zip
* translations: pulled updates from transifex
* translations: rebuilt source .pot
* Merged branch ‘libretro-merge’
* gb: logged writes to undefined RTC bits
* Merged remote-tracking branch ‘libretro/master’ into libretro-merge
* Merged pull request #130 from negativeExponent/updates1
* Added new DMA variables to states
* Corrected a typo in gbDataMBC3.mapperControl
* libretro: Prevented core crash when GB Border is turned ON
* MBC3 RTC: Handled high-day (bit 0) in the control register accurately, Clock
* Fixed DMA open-bus behavior to retrieve the last bus data
* Corrected potential memoryWaitSeq array usage in 32-bit opcode access and added missing busPrefetchCount reset
* Removed leftover debug logging
* libretro: Fixed regression in save type detection for GBA
* Cleaned up gba-over.ini
* Refactored EEPROM access logic, limiting ROM range when EEPROM is in use
* Fixed gbcfilter_pal_888 incorrect colors in LCD filter mode
* libretro: Managed buffer-overflow in flush_samples()
* libretro: Started using native color formats for 16/32 format
* GBA PCM FIFO: Fixed sample consumption order for DMA refill
* Stopped DMA destination increment when in FIFO mode (regression)
* GBA: Refactored GBA I/O register
* Increased soundFinalWave buffer to prevent edge case buffer-overflow
* Updated CPUReadHalfWordSigned to return int32_t and adjusted assignments
* Changed memory access switches to use MemoryRegion labels (improving readability)
* Removed/improved commentary