Homebrew Discussion A List of GBA games that run on Switch
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So I just tested Fire red on version 6 without graphical. Have not crashed once. Been playing for about 30 minutes. Will update if anything changes but its looking like something in version 7 broke it.
Legend of zelda minish cap semi works. It will load but as soon as you hit the file select screen it glitches out and you cannot start the game. On 5.0.2(ALL THIS HAS BEEN TESTED ON 5.0.2 FIRMWARE)
Spent some time whipping this up. Anyone that wants to add details for games is welcome tooI'm still working my way through this list so any help is welcomed
The list of games is always growing! So if you don't see your favorite game don't worry, it'll be here soon!
(A Txt file will be available to download. I update it every couple of hours)
If you could list any of these issues in a reply I will update the list so OP knows what issues are more serious across the emulator.
Odd Glitches/ Visual Bugs
Framerate drops
High number of crashes
Hanging screens (Game freezes on certain screens of game)
If in-game save works or if only savestate works
The Emulator being used is linked here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/gameboy-advance-emulator-port-gdkgba-works-on-5-0.504186/
(I'll update the list when I can. Pretty much whenever I'm awake!)
--------------------GAME LIST------------------------
(THX @Seathasky and @Purple_Shyguy for list help)
Working Games:
Pokemon Ruby------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Pokemon Sapphire------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Pokemon Emerald------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Pokemon Fire Red------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Pokemon Leaf Green------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Kirby - Nightmare in Dreamland------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
DragonBall Z - Supersonic Warriors------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Wario Land 4 (E)------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Kingdom Hearts - Chain of Memories------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Mario And Luigi Superstar Saga------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Mario Kart - Super Circuit------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Red Rescue Team------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Super Mario Advance?------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World------Working, Minimum crashes, Saves
Harvest Moon - Friends of Mineral Town------Seems to work perfectly
Crash Bandicoot - The Huge Adventure------Seems to work perfectly
Semi Working Games:
Kirby And The Amazing Mirror------Working, Minimum crashes, Some framerate drops, Saves
Metroid - Fusion------Working,crashes sometimes, Some texture glitches, Saves
Golden Sun------Glitchy particle effects and lighting, audio issue and slow downs, crashes 5 mins in
Mother 1 (J)------Audio issues, No transitions, Saving does work
Mother 2 (J)------Audio issues, Game glitches when transitions are supposed to show up, Saving does work
Mother 3 (J)------Working, Minimum crashes, Issues saving
Donkey Kong Country 1------Working, Minimum crashes, Possibly saves, Screen transitions are not working properly
Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros 3------Working, wait for Reading screen to pass(Takes a bit), Saves, Screen transitions not working properly
The Legend Of Zelda - A Link To The Past------Random crashes, framerate drops once you've rescued the princess, Saves work
Super Mario Advance 3 - Yoshi's Island------very slow, sound quality is bad and there are a few visual glitches
Classic Nes - Super Mario Bros.------Terrible audio, quite a bit of visual glitches, possibly saves
Dragon Ball - Advanced Adventure------Crash sometimes, Framerate issues with 3 or more enemies on the screen, Possibly saves
MegaMan Battle Network------Runs fairly well with frame dips in the over-world, Battles are completely fine and run normal
Super Monkey Ball Jr.------Heavy framerate Drops
NOT WORKING AS OF REVISION V7:
Mega Man Battle Network 2------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 3 Blue------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 3 White------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red Sun------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Blue Moon------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 5 Team ProtoMan------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 5 Team Colonel------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 6 Cybeast Falzar------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
Mega Man Battle Network 6 Cybeast Gregar------Loads on the emulator, but completely unplayable
UNTESTED GAMES:
Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania - Circle of the Moon
Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance
Metroid - Zero Mission
The Legend of Zelda - The Minish Cap
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Final Fantasy I & II - Dawn of Souls
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy IV Advance
Final Fantasy V Advance
Final Fantasy VI Advance
Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem - The Sacred Stones
Golden Sun 2 - The Lost Age
Harvest Moon - More Friends of Mineral Town
Advance Wars
Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising
Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy Of Goku
Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku II
Dragon Ball Z - Buu's Fury
Dragon Ball GT - Transformation
MegaMan Zero
MegaMan Zero 4
Yu-Gi-Oh! Ultimate Masters 2006
Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Eternal Duelist Soul
Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Sacred Cards
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Duel Academy
Sonic Advance
Sonic Advance 2
Sonic Advance 3
Sword of Mana
Metal Slug Advance
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Grand Theft Auto Advance
Naruto Ninja Council 2
HAPPY GAMING!!!
Last edited by OblivionReign,
Full Metal Alchemist w English Patch gives me crashes. Can save.
Super robot wars J with English patch gives me crashes the last two times I tried. Made more progress the 2nd time. Glitchy graphical effects. Can save
Hajime No ippo with English patch works great. Feeding combos never felt so good
Super robot wars J with English patch gives me crashes the last two times I tried. Made more progress the 2nd time. Glitchy graphical effects. Can save
Hajime No ippo with English patch works great. Feeding combos never felt so good
Last edited by Switch-Live,
Pokemon - Emarald (U).gba
This is for v7 non experimental version on 5.0.2
Tons of visual glitches especially on the intro and "Press Start" splash screen.
The Border image thing for selecting menu options of "New Game" and "Options" doesn't show up
Audio really is bad, you can tell very easily if you used any other emulator.
Birch takes like 5 seconds to show up when starting a new game, but from then on it looks like it runs with no slowdowns or visual glitches (even when he takes the pokemon out the pokeball)
Gender Selection and Name Selection is Perfect.
Game seems to run at full speed from what I can tell.
This is for v7 non experimental version on 5.0.2
Tons of visual glitches especially on the intro and "Press Start" splash screen.
The Border image thing for selecting menu options of "New Game" and "Options" doesn't show up
Audio really is bad, you can tell very easily if you used any other emulator.
Birch takes like 5 seconds to show up when starting a new game, but from then on it looks like it runs with no slowdowns or visual glitches (even when he takes the pokemon out the pokeball)
Gender Selection and Name Selection is Perfect.
Game seems to run at full speed from what I can tell.
@Madman55 maybe you can create a google spreadsheet like the one for nds-bootstrap so we can add the games working, not working, what's wrong with them, which region etc...
It's been started! Sorry for any delays friends, I had family to see. I'm back now though and ready to work!
gonna test these
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sonic advance is perfect, even the audio
sonic advance 2 is perfect including the audio
sonic advance 3 has a few frame rate dips, but its playable, the sound is quite bad tho
will test saves later
Dark blue and grey still unreadable on dark theme.Many changes have been made this morning! If you have any issues let us know here
Gotcha, I'll see what I can do!
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Hows it look to you now?
@Madman55 I've just made a new spreadsheet that (I think) will be easier to follow and to complete, I can give you the rights to edit it if you want to!
Guys, if you're testing a game, please leave your Switch version, emulator version, region of the game and what issues you have faced during your play time!
It can help the devs!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B8UOP4BvLkCVXdjxlXbO6Ir-mFluHxaPugdtfs4Ncfg
Guys, if you're testing a game, please leave your Switch version, emulator version, region of the game and what issues you have faced during your play time!
It can help the devs!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B8UOP4BvLkCVXdjxlXbO6Ir-mFluHxaPugdtfs4Ncfg
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