PSPVBA: GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP v1.2.4

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Thursday, August 3. 2006

PSPVBA: GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP v1.2.4

Hi All,

Here is a new version of PSPVBA the GameBoy Advance Emulator for PSP,
which is a bit faster compared to v1.2.3 (up to 3% on v-rally 3) !

This version works for FW 1.5 AND 2.x

What's new in version 1.2.4 :

- Improve the code of the graphic stuff (up to 3% faster)
- Improve the code of the ARM emulator (faster)
- Add BIOS file support (see the README)
- Add option to adjust the sound quality
- Add option to delete files (in the file selector)
- Bug fix in the save settings code
- Merge the code for 1.5FW and 2.xFW

How to use it ?

Have a look to the README.txt file !

This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for more information about it.

For 1.5 firmware : pspvba-v1.2.4-fw15.zip

For 2.x firmware : pspvba-v1.2.4-fw2x.zip

Enjoy,

Zx.

If you want to discuss on this emulator, you can do it here :
zx81's forum on dcemu network

Posted by zx-81 in GameBoy Adv at 20:34
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FIRST!

Sorry.

Good Job, keep up the good work!

#1 Snarg on Aug 3 2006, 21:03 Reply

Thanks for all your hard work

#1.1 aassd on Aug 12 2006, 03:48 Reply

Please keep up your amazing work. I would have no idea how challenging doing something like this would actually be, but I can imagine it is an immense task.

I long for the day I can play my GBA games on my PSP so I only have to carry around one portable. !!

#2 Oxycontin on Aug 3 2006, 21:43 Reply

Incredible. You just keep going, and going, and going; keep it up and we will have full speed by the end of August

(That and you will be worshipped like a god; think of that as motivation)

#3 Xenon312 on Aug 3 2006, 21:50 Reply

another killa-application from Zx-81 lab..
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!
^^ thank you ^^

#4 oKami on Aug 3 2006, 22:24 Reply

DO 2.71 WORK WIT DIS?

#5 00leg on Aug 3 2006, 22:28 Reply

Why is final fantasy tactics advance slower on this?
I tried with and without BIOS...
But it seems to have less graphical glitches so good job on that

#6 Thurmio on Aug 3 2006, 22:30 Reply

ma parole que t'es fou lol tu dis: ce sera mon dernier , puis deux jours apres t'en sors un autre mdr continue comme ça tu fais de l'excellent boulot merci beaucoup

#7 yaya on Aug 3 2006, 22:32 Reply

Hi...
I have f/w 2.71, and I can't make it work!!!can anyone help thx.!

#8 gs1 (Link) on Aug 4 2006, 01:11 Reply

#8.1 zuhaib on Dec 26 2008, 13:11 Reply

You cannot use it with a 2.71

#9 yaya on Aug 4 2006, 01:53 Reply

Hey zx, great work, but one thing puzzles me didn't you say that you were going to do use the kernel on 1.5 to improve the speed? So how is that going?

#10 Jeremy on Aug 4 2006, 03:57 Reply

#11 Anonymous on Aug 4 2006, 08:02 Reply

Hey!first of all,great emulator!
But i have one problem with this one, i played yesterday some games, i tried pokemon rubin,fire emblem and golden sun. I have BIOS FILE yes. so my problem is, in everyone of this games, i saved once or more, but today, i cant load anyone of those games with my saved things.When i put up a usb con to my pc it shows that all saved files are in the dat. "save"...but i just cant load them and have to start every game from new please help me !

#12 Scha3er on Aug 4 2006, 11:58 Reply

this rom is 32mb, and pspvba support only 16mb roms (due to the hardware limit of the PSP

)

Zx.

#12.1 zx-81 on Aug 4 2006, 19:40 Reply

does it work on 2.70? i have 2.7FW pls answer me.. T.T

#13 gian yap on Aug 4 2006, 17:28 Reply

It doesn't work for firmware > 2.6

#13.1 zx-81 on Aug 4 2006, 19:41 Reply

Just want to say thank you for all your hard work!

#14 Bigzolly on Aug 4 2006, 17:35 Reply

great work, really great work, ill appreciate your exhaustive work, grettings from Mexico, and sorry for my bad english, but anyway really thanks man.

#15 jesus on Aug 4 2006, 20:30 Reply

Are you saying the Pokemon games will never work properly with this emulator, ZX? I ask because I have the same problems as Scha3er, and I think they existed on VBA if it wasn't configured properly, but you could adjust the save size/type on the PC version to fix these issues, along with settings to fix real-time clock issues. Any chance these may be resolved in a future release? BTW, thank you for all your hard work so far and for taking the time to answer our questions.

#16 OneWingedAngel on Aug 5 2006, 01:35 Reply

Well does that mean, i just can't load games like Golden Sun,Fire Emblem, Pokemon....after saving? are there any games i can save and load afterwards ? please help

thanx

#16.1 Scha3er on Aug 5 2006, 09:07 Reply

where, how can I download this GBA emulator with working bios for PSP pls answer my question for me to download it very well i hope that by tommorow my questions will be answered carefully thats all thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#16.2 gelz on Oct 23 2008, 09:23 Reply

thx *ZX*, although what you said really disappointed me, cause it said 2.X, (that x stands for 5,6 and hopefully 7...)
but any way im looking 4ward for the revolution that can help me degrade my useless 2.7FW, i really like to use the VBA as soon as possible on PSP, hope 2.7 hack comes real soon, have been waitin for 3 months now, since may 06, amf...

#17 gian yap on Aug 5 2006, 16:43 Reply

Good job!!! u are the best

Regards

#18 Stream (Link) on Aug 7 2006, 14:00 Reply

the live is good

#19 FERLEYANGULO (Link) on Aug 7 2006, 18:57 Reply

I think the VBA emulator would go alot faster if he could reduce the size of the emulator and make it fit with the psp's onboard nand so that the emulator can play roms alot faster. because my brother right now is making a new GBA emaulator for psp and he has already made the speed(Fps) to about 13-30fps depending on the size of the rom, because he did'nt add so man features, all he added was save support and that was pretty much it!

#20 Yeemeng on Aug 7 2006, 20:11 Reply

Hey Zx! It's Mr. Shizzy from psp-news (DCEMU). I checked out your blog spot there, but just stumbled across this-your official site. Just wanted to drop you a line, and say thanks for all your great work and dedication to the scene!!!

#21 Mr. Shizzy on Aug 7 2006, 21:06 Reply

lol ! Thx.

Zx

#21.1 zx-81 on Aug 7 2006, 21:25 Reply

Hey, ZX-81, are u making a new GBA emulator soon?

#22 Yeemeng on Aug 9 2006, 18:23 Reply

PSPVba is in standby for the moment ...

Zx

#22.1 zx-81 on Aug 9 2006, 18:56 Reply

standBy...no matter.. I will stay connected this page till your next release..
I need it!!!! lol

#23 oKami on Aug 10 2006, 19:48 Reply

I'm in vacation now, so i've got many spare time for homebrew/emulator dev

#23.1 zx-81 on Aug 12 2006, 11:51 Reply

I read that you were going to focus on the sound (gba emulation)?

Any progress with this or anything else?

Thanks again,
-Psy

#24 Psypher on Aug 13 2006, 23:02 Reply

no progress for now ... i'm taking a rest for a week

#24.1 zx-81 on Aug 16 2006, 18:58 Reply

I think this might help you gain some fps...

http://strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/2006/08/unexpected-optmisations.html

just a maybe

#25 cools on Aug 17 2006, 17:57 Reply

this is getting quiet... too quiet...

#26 Me on Aug 19 2006, 08:20 Reply

Hey Zx, looks like you got some serious Competition....

Checkout pspupdates.com
-gpsp

#27 Goku on Aug 20 2006, 11:46 Reply

lol, there is no competition ... PSPVba seems to be dead, and gpsp is born

#27.1 zx-81 on Aug 20 2006, 15:43 Reply

ehy zx is there a possibility to see you collaborating with this coder that make gpSP..I'm sure that in a week you two can create a full-great-speed emu!!

#28 okami on Aug 20 2006, 19:31 Reply

I'm sure he needn't my help

.. but who knows

Zx.

#28.1 zx-81 on Aug 20 2006, 19:54 Reply

So what's next for you Zx.
A Neo Geo pocket emu? (lol my wishful thinking)

ps I do think his emu would be great with your awsome menu system

#29 Zx fan on Aug 21 2006, 01:53 Reply

Well Zx, It was Cool for you to try to make a PSP GBA emu. Nice work and Goodjob! gpsp probably got the inspiration from you since you brought the topic of GBA emu back. THX again!

#30 Goku on Aug 23 2006, 09:32 Reply

Many thanks for your kind comment

Take care, Zx.

#30.1 zx-81 on Aug 23 2006, 20:15 Reply

its doesn`t work on my PSP :/ i have 2.60 and if i load rom my psp restart ;/ why ? PLZ mail me

#31 WomBat on Sep 22 2006, 00:02 Reply

hey how do i get it to work on a psp version 2.81?

#32 DUDE2000 on Feb 27 2007, 21:54 Reply

i have fw 1.5 and when i bopen the gba emu it crashes help me

#33 MIGUEL on May 10 2007, 04:51 Reply

I don't have a clue as how to use this and im good with computers and stuff.what i did is download the whole file into game on the PSP thing in the usb.I read the readme section on and still dont understand so if u know everyone please dont hesitate to email me at Ambition0farider@msn.com for how to do it cuz i just bought a psp 3 days ago or so.Thank you for your time

#34 Oladapo on Jun 11 2007, 00:22 Reply

can any one give me some detailed instruction on how to work pspvba v1.2.4 i cant seem to get it working, please

#35 Billy on Dec 3 2007, 13:10 Reply

This is a dead project, please use gPSP instead it a very good GBA emulator much faster than this one,

Zx

#35.1 zx-81 on Dec 3 2007, 23:30 Reply

do you have a vba emulator that will work on 3.71?

#36 incuboy311 on Apr 4 2008, 09:53 Reply

This is a dead project, i suggest you to install a custom firmware and then use gpsp emulator (the best GBA emu 4 psp)

Zx

#36.1 zx-81 on Apr 4 2008, 10:49 Reply

this is sweet

#36.1.1 doyle (Link) on Jun 3 2008, 13:35 Reply

Thanks

, but this is a dead project .... i suggest you to install gpsp instead (it's much faster)

Zx

#36.1.1.1 zx-81 on Jun 3 2008, 13:44 Reply

i have a psp(phat) 3.90m33-3 and da emulator works on it. just change da kernel to 1.50 (o.b.s-you most have 1.50.v-2 kernel

)

#37 psp_holic (Link) on Jun 18 2008, 22:16 Reply

My psp says that the data is corrupted and it may be my firmware being 5.02 and it's the 2000 series.

#38 Kyle Warburton on Dec 3 2008, 15:55 Reply

can u put it on 5.2 version

#39 Anonymous on Dec 4 2008, 18:50 Reply

Why does it always say corrupt data no matter what i do?

#40 Guy 6 on Jan 25 2009, 22:02 Reply

You need to install a custom firmware first,

Zx

#40.1 zx-81 on Jan 25 2009, 22:25 Reply

does it work on 5.00 m33-3? if not then dam :/

#41 Anonymous on Aug 28 2009, 02:23 Reply

you'd better try gpsp emulator instead,

Zx

#41.1 zx-81 on Aug 28 2009, 09:45 Reply

is this compatible for 5.xx firmware and up

#42 Pato on Jun 11 2010, 05:38 Reply

Hi,

This is a dead project, i suggest you to use the gpsp instead, it's much better,

Zx

#42.1 zx-81 on Jun 11 2010, 09:38 Reply

like zx-81 said, this is dead because of gpsp. do not expect anymore work on this emulator.

Player863

#43 Player863 on Jun 26 2010, 21:21 Reply

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