mGBA emulator updated!

[AsPika2219]

mGBA for Gameboy Advanced is now updated into version 0.30 right now!

https://mgba.io/2015/08/16/mgba-0.3.0/

Features and change log are here!

Features:

• Ability to hide individual background layers, or OBJs
• Ability to mute individual audio channels
• Palette viewer and exporter
• Volume control
• More shortcuts are editable (e.g. quick save/load)
• Rewind now shows the frame after rewinding
• Import/Export of GameShark/Action Replay snapshots
• Add “Step backwards” item for single increment rewind
• Deadzone estimation for game controllers
• Analog inputs can be used for shortcuts
• Menu items for specific solar sensor brightness levels
• Remappable controls for tilt and gyroscope sensors
• Status messages for actions taken while a game is running (e.g. save/load state)
• Memory inspector
• Screensaver can now be suspended while a game is running
• Load/save the most recent savestate slot
• Support varible speed (PWM) rumble
• Ability to cap fast forward speed
• Finer control over FPS target
• Holdable shortcut for rewinding one frame at a time
• Ability to boot directly into the BIOS
• Preliminary support for yanking out the game pak while a game is running
• Thumb-drive mode by putting a file called portable.ini in the same folder
• Configurable display driver, between software and OpenGL
• Undo-able savestate loading and saving
• Controller profiles now store shortcut settings
• Default controller profiles for several common controllers
• Libretro now supports BIOS, rumble and solar sensor
• Implement BIOS call Stop, for sleep mode
• Automatically load patches, if found
• Improved video synchronization
• Configurable audio output sample rate

Bugfixes:

• ARM7: Fix SWI and IRQ timings
• ARM7: Fix Thumb MUL timing
• ARM7: Fix timing of multiplies to use N cycles
• ARM7: ARMHotplugDetach should call deinit
• Debugger: Fix use-after-free in breakpoint clearing code
• GBA: Fix crash if a 512kb flash save is loaded when a game has a 1Mb flash override
• GBA: Cap audio FIFO read size during deserialization
• GBA: Check for corrupted savestates when loading
• GBA: Check for improperly sized savestates when loading
• GBA: Check for savestates made from differently sized ROMs
• GBA: Fix calls to endian-independent loadstores
• GBA: Fix timing of reading from timer registers
• GBA: Ensure cycles never go negative
• GBA Audio: Force audio FIFOs to 32-bit
• GBA Audio: Fix audio pitch changing when adjusting buffer size
• GBA Audio: Fix sample order in audio channel 3
• GBA Audio: Fix 8-bit writes to audio channel 3 frequency
• GBA Cheats: Fix Pro Action Replay and GameShark issues when used together
• GBA Memory: Improve Thumb open bus behavior
• GBA Memory: Fix potential DMA issue when loading a savestate
• GBA Memory: Fix load/store multiple video memory waitstates
• GBA SIO: Fix reseting when there are SIO devices attached
• GBA Video: Blended sprites should never have other effects applied
• GBA Video: Fix out-of-bounds tiles in mosaic
• GBA Video: Fix windows not affecting sprites
• GBA Video: Prevent tiles < 512 from being used in modes 3 - 5
• GBA Video: Fix timing on first scanline
• Qt: Better cleanup when a game crashes
• Qt: Fix open ROM dialog filtering for archive formats
• Qt: Cap the maximum number of multiplayer windows
• Qt: Fix maximum year in sensor override
• Qt: Fix window being too tall after exiting fullscreen
• Qt: Fix a missing va_end call in the log handler lambda within the GameController constructor
• Qt: Fix analog buttons not getting unmapped
• Qt: Fix passing command line options
• Qt: Fix crashes on Windows by using using QMetaObject to do cross-thread calls
• SDL: Fix SDL build when OpenGL is missing
• Util: Allow loading IPS patches that grow the ROM
• VFS: Fix resource leaks if some allocations fail
• VFS: Fix line-reading to return proper values
• Video: Fix an issue with very long filenames
• Util: Fix formatting of floats

Misc:

• All: Add –help flag for command line programs
• All: Fix sanitize-deb script to set file permissions properly if run as (fake)root
• All: Enable static linking for Windows
• All: Enable static linking for OS X
• All: Threads are now named
• All: Proper handling of Unicode file paths
• ARM7: Add emulation for Undefined CPU mode
• ARM7: Reduce the size of the Thumb instruction table
• GBA: Add status log level
• GBA: GBARewind now returns how many states it has rewound
• GBA: SIO logging layer
• GBA BIOS: Stub out SoundBias
• GBA: More accurate cycle estimation for ROM prefetch and flash save chips
• GBA: Don’t include GBACLIDebugger struct unless needed
• GBA: Savedata is now synced shortly after data finishes being written
• GBA: Process multiple timer events at once, if necessary
• GBA Audio: Implement audio reset for channels A/B
• GBA Audio: Process multiple audio events at once, if necessary
• GBA Hardware: Backport generic RTC source into core
• GBA Input: Allow axes and buttons to be mapped to the same key
• GBA Memory: Run multiple DMAs in a tight loop if they all occur before present
• GBA SIO: Add a dummy driver for Normal mode
• GBA Thread: Add functionality for running callbacks on the GBA thread
• GBA Thread: Split GBASync into a separate file
• GBA Video: Refactor software renderer into separate files
• GBA Video: Slightly optimize mode 0 mosaic rendering
• Debugger: Free watchpoints in addition to breakpoints
• Qt: Handle saving input settings better
• Qt: Move GL frame drawing back onto its own thread
• Qt: Fast forward (held) option moved from Other to Emulation menu
• Qt: Show version info in window title
• Qt: Migrate multiplayer window handling into GBAApp
• Qt: Unified file opening and saving with last location
• Qt: Fix windows being resizable when they shouldn’t have been
• Qt: Only hide cursor in full screen
• Qt: Replace pause-after-frame mutex with an atomic
• Qt: Add application icon and XDG desktop files
• Qt: Rename “Fullscreen” to “Toggle fullscreen”
• Qt: Don’t save window size when entering fullscreen
• Qt: Make the default fullscreen binding for Windows be Alt-Enter
• Qt: Gamepads can now have both buttons and analog axes mapped to the same key
• Qt: Increase usability of key mapper
• Qt: Show checkmark for window sizes
• Qt: Set window path to loaded ROM
• Perf: Ability to load savestates immediately on launch
• SDL: Properly check for initialization
• SDL: Clean up initialization functions
• SDL: Clean up GL context
• Util: Allow disabling the threading code entirely
• VFS: Add sync method to force syncing with backing

Download it here!

https://mgba.io//downloads.html

EDIT:- mGBA website was changed! Just, redirectly from old one.

 

[zerofalcon]

The official standalone Wii port was updated too and it runs really fast! Too bad it only accepts input from a Gamecube controller right now, I hope the classic controller will be added soon.

 

[Smoker1]

How is the 3DS Port?