Homebrew CitrAGB - 3DS GBA Emulator (WIP)

[Deleted User]

Surely VC would be much more stable than.. homebrew things.?

Ok thank you for answering!

 

[TecXero]

Right now, if you want to play GBA games on the 3DS, VC is the only decent option. If you want to help out the developers of these different emulators, that's great and feel free to test for them. I wouldn't consider them a viable option for someone looking for something playable, though, yet.

 

[KnightBearGames]

Someone mind shooting me a PM telling me what VC is? This is the first I've heard of it.

 

[Konako]

Someone mind shooting me a PM telling me what VC is? This is the first I've heard of it.

Virtual console.

 

[Smoker1]

VC: Virtual Console. It is what Nintendo has older Games Designated as. So if for example Nintendo has old GBA, GB/GBC, DS Games on the 3DS, they use their Emulator which they call Virtual Console.

 

[doctorgoat]

Mother 3 is particularly hard to emulate, and I'm surprised the VC is even able to do it reliably.

The game's timing loop can be thrown off easily and you won't be able to land combos in battle at all.

 

[TecXero]

Mother 3 is particularly hard to emulate, and I'm surprised the VC is even able to do it reliably.

The game's timing loop can be thrown off easily and you won't be able to land combos in battle at all.

That's because it's not really emulated, at least most of it isn't. It's more like a virtual machine with how it's handled.

 

[Death78793]

That's because it's not really emulated, at least most of it isn't. It's more like a virtual machine with how it's handled.

Actually, the system contains basically most of the GBA's hardware inside of it
Mother 3 lags out on some places but IIRC it has to do with some badly done optimization with the english patch

 

[TecXero]

Actually, the system contains basically most of the GBA's hardware inside of it
Mother 3 lags out on some places but IIRC it has to do with some badly done optimization with the english patch

That's why I put "most of it isn't". Some of it still has to be emulated, but not much.

 

[Psi-hate]

On mgba, Mother 3 runs really well on N3DS. Goes to show how good mgba is!

 

[Roazer]

mGBA is realy slow if i start FireRed. Plz i want to play FireRed someone help me plz

 

[doctorgoat]

mGBA is realy slow if i start FireRed. Plz i want to play FireRed someone help me plz

Try different region roms.

 

[TidusWulf]

Try different region roms.

He should probably try a different thread, too.

 

[doctorgoat]

Yeah that would also be a super good idea. I'm spaced out and didn't notice. :<

 

[Roazer]

He should probably try a different thread, too.

What is a diffrent tread and How do u mean by Diffrent region roms?

 

[Greymane]

First of for the thread this one if for citragb not mgba. EDIT (this one is for mgba https://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-mgba-alpha-1v-released.396224/page-17#post-5660536) and for the rom the region meaning usa/europe/japan and so on

 

[Roazer]

First of for the thread this one if for citragb not mgba. EDIT (this one is for mgba https://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-mgba-alpha-1v-released.396224/page-17#post-5660536) and for the rom the region meaning usa/europe/japan and so on

Nope all advises did not work, I used a difrent region rom, i uptaded mGBA but its still slow

 

[piratesephiroth]

Finally got HB_ReprotectMemory removed in favor of a straight call to svcControlProcessMemory, going to try porting everything over to .cia tonight probably (and adding offsets for firmwares 9.3-9.7 along with that).

So did you get it to work as a CIA? I just tried to build it (from the github source) and I get an "an error has occurred" after the "3DS" boot animation.

EDIT: I did what aliaspider suggested in that comment (the cheapest and most certainly worst option, reduced ROM_TRANSLATION_CACHE_SIZE to 2MB) and now the emu works, hehe

It sure feels great to have a fast GBA emulator in a installable CIA!
But for some reason dynarec works only under rxTools' devmode (or isn't compatible with my 9.9 emunand).
There's also an error message after we close it (via "X"), just like what happens to Micro SD Management.

 

[Greymane]

Nope all advises did not work, I used a difrent region rom, i uptaded mGBA but its still slow

Are you using a o3ds or an n3ds? The mgba emulator is somewhat slow on o3ds, some games do have patches that can partialy or fully fix there speed. But i have not needed them so i havent realy searched if fire-red has one. And mgba crashes randomly last time i checked, it can be within a few seconds or even half an hour can pass. EDIT: also use the latest nightly version not the alpha1 version Edit END:

 

[Roazer]

Are you using a o3ds or an n3ds? The mgba emulator is somewhat slow on o3ds, some games do have patches that can partialy or fully fix there speed. But i have not needed them so i havent realy searched if fire-red has one. And mgba crashes randomly last time i checked, it can be within a few seconds or even half an hour can pass. EDIT: also use the latest nightly version not the alpha1 version Edit END:

I use a o3ds, So you dont know how to fix it...