Mgba Wii - Gamebrew

mGBA is an emulator for Game Boy Advance, Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. It aims to provide a faster and more accurate emulation experience than other available emulators. Additionally, it includes features that are not found in other emulators. It supports all games of GBA,GB and GBC. It is also available available for many platforms including Windows, Linux, macOS, PSVita, Nintendo 3DS, Switch and Wii.

Features

  • Highly accurate Game Boy Advance hardware support.
  • Game Boy/Game Boy Color hardware support.
  • Fast emulation. Known to run at full speed even on low end hardware, such as netbooks.
  • Qt and SDL ports for a heavy-weight and a light-weight frontend.
  • Local (same computer) link cable support.
  • Save type detection, even for flash memory size.
  • Support for cartridges with motion sensors and rumble (only usable with game controllers).
  • Real-time clock support, even without configuration.
  • Solar sensor support for Boktai games.
  • Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer support.
  • A built-in BIOS implementation, and ability to load external BIOS files.
  • Scripting support using Lua.
  • Turbo/fast-forward support by holding Tab.
  • Rewind by holding Backquote.
  • Frameskip, configurable up to 10.
  • Screenshot support.
  • Cheat code support.
  • 9 savestate slots. Savestates are also viewable as screenshots.
  • Video, GIF, WebP, and APNG recording.
  • e-Reader support.
  • Remappable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
  • Loading from ZIP and 7z files.
  • IPS, UPS and BPS patch support.
  • Game debugging via a command-line interface and GDB remote support, compatible with Ghidra and IDA Pro.
  • Configurable emulation rewinding.
  • Support for loading and exporting GameShark and Action Replay snapshots.
  • Cores available for RetroArch/Libretro and OpenEmu.
  • Community-provided translations for several languages via Weblate.
  • Many, many smaller things.

User guide

The compatibility list for mGBA Wii can be found here.

Game Boy mappers

The following mappers are fully supported:

  • MBC1
  • MBC1M
  • MBC2
  • MBC3
  • MBC3+RTC
  • MBC5
  • MBC5+Rumble
  • MBC7
  • Wisdom Tree (unlicensed)
  • NT "new type" (unlicensed MBC5-like)
  • Pokémon Jade/Diamond (unlicensed)
  • BBD (unlicensed MBC5-like)
  • Hitek (unlicensed MBC5-like)
  • Sachen MMC1

The following mappers are partially supported:

  • MBC6 (missing flash memory write support)
  • MMM01
  • Pocket Cam
  • TAMA5 (incomplete RTC support)
  • HuC-1 (missing IR support)
  • HuC-3 (missing IR support)
  • Sachen MMC2 (missing alternate wiring support)
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