Homebrew mGBA official standalone Wii port

[Askot]

stupid question lol, does this have the ability to read games from and external HDD? cause I get it to load just can't get it to point to my roms directory lol

USB loading works too, you just need to run mgba-wii from usb device

 

[Centrix]

So wait your saying instead of putting MGBA on the SD card put it on the HDD instead?

 

[Maeson]

Is this better than VBA GX? Does the sound still skip like it did on VBA GX because that was a pain in the ass!

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That's kinda pointless since most of the Classic NES series have been released on the Wii U Virtual Console. (Except for Bomberman)

Not so pointless when you can play; for example, this:
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2091/

And other games with a wider screen; a nice feature for some of the games on that classics list. Not a priority, but a nice thing nonetheless.

 

[nakata6790]

Link

Thank you for providing the link. I gave it a thorough test and it is for Retroarch 1.2.2. It mostly works fine, but games sized at 32mb blackscreen and the performance is not at the level of recent standalone mgba.

Hopefully a more recent version can be shared

 

[Centrix]

Is there away to access settings for the mgba-wii guys? Dose it even have settings implemented yet lol?

 

[nakata6790]

Press home when in game. So far you can save state, load state, configure frameskip (i reccomend 0 cause mgba wii is already superfast and does not need it) and bios usage.

As i said, until someone shares a recent RA mGBA wii core, the standalone port is by far the best optiuon we have for GBA on Wii.

 

[Maeson]

One silly question: Did this play gbc games? I think it doesn't, but just for curiosity...

 

[ShadowOne333]

One silly question: Did this play gbc games? I think it doesn't, but just for curiosity...

Nope it doesn't yet.

The main developer, @endrift, has said that support for GB/GBC might be something that will be considered down the road, although right now it is not a priority.

 

[Maeson]

Perfect then. I was just asking because one single game that's giving me problems in every other GBC compatible emulator on the Wii, that's all, lol.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Perfect then. I was just asking because one single game that's giving me problems in every other GBC compatible emulator on the Wii, that's all, lol.

Which game is it?

A way to boot GBC/GB games through mGBA would be to use Goomba Color, which is a GBC/GB emulator for GBA.
You can put all your GBC and GB games and pack them in a .GBA file, which will boot in any GBA emulator, including mGBA.

It's the only way I can think of so that we can run GBC games with mGBA in the meanwhile.

 

[Maeson]

Daiku no Gen-San, an Puzzle Platformer, never made it outside of Japan, and it's a shame. It also freezes in several PC emulators. I never experienced a problem like this, lol. Not even the "GoodGbx" pack has a working rom (or maybe it's the emulators themselves).

Would that Goomba homebrew work with this? The idea sounds so bizarre: Using a wii to emulate GBA to emulate GBC. Although thanks for the idea, i'll take a look at Goomba Color.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Daiku no Gen-San, an Puzzle Platformer, never made it outside of Japan, and it's a shame. It also freezes in several PC emulators. I never experienced a problem like this, lol. Not even the "GoodGbx" pack has a working rom (or maybe it's the emulators themselves).

Would that Goomba homebrew work with this? The idea sounds so bizarre: Using a wii to emulate GBA to emulate GBC. Although thanks for the idea, i'll take a look at Goomba Color.

Well, I never heard of that game, but perhaps Goomba might make it work, who knows? It's worth the shot though.

Goomba is not a Homebrew, it is more like a GBA ROM that includes a GBC emulator and the GBC/GB games that you want to play.
And yeah it sounds bizarre, Wii emulating a GBA and the GBA emulator emulating GBC.
Give it a try with mGBA and let me know what happens!

I am interested in trying it out too. xD

I recommend you put at least 3 or so games inside the GBA ROM you compile.
I THINK you can put the .SAV files in there too, but I am not sure, it's been a while since I last tried it.

 

[Centrix]

Which game is it?

A way to boot GBC/GB games through mGBA would be to use Goomba Color, which is a GBC/GB emulator for GBA.
You can put all your GBC and GB games and pack them in a .GBA file, which will boot in any GBA emulator, including mGBA.

It's the only way I can think of so that we can run GBC games with mGBA in the meanwhile.

and how do you actually go about doing that? you have peeked my interest lol

 

[ShadowOne333]

and how do you actually go about doing that? you have peeked my interest lol

I don't know if I am allowed to post the link or not, because it's a GBC emulator that works as a GBA ROM file.
Just search "Goomba Color" in Google, should be within the very first links.

Read a little bit about it, it's quite interesting actually and could be a nice workaround for playing GB/C games until mGBA supports them natively.

 

[Centrix]

If they support it lol guess time will tell if it does or not lol I'll look into it goomba color [emoji3]

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so how do you actually use goomba color with mgba?

 

[Centrix]

Stupid question, is there a forwarder for mgba-wii? can't see to find one?

 

[nakata6790]

Stupid question, is there a forwarder for mgba-wii? can't see to find one?

http://gbatemp.net/threads/mgba-official-standalone-wii-port.395240/page-10#post-5722210

 

[ShadowOne333]

so how do you actually use goomba color with mgba?

You just open the .gba file that you create with Goomba Color (which should contain all your GBC and GB games) with mGBA.
Should work.

 

[nakata6790]

Should work.

Does work. I tried it and it's fine.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Does work. I tried it and it's fine.

Good.
Then we now have a way to play GBC and GB games with mGBA as a workaround until official support for .gbc and .gb is implemented into mGBA.