mGBA forwarders ever really coming?

[LexDG]

I remember reading that they were possible and functional months and months ago but the info dried up and it’s hard to find ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about mGBA for 3ds.

 

[SylverReZ]

mGBA comes as both (.CIA) for forwarder and (.3DSX) for hbmenu, both of which can be downloaded from the Universal Updater.

 

[LexDG]

mGBA comes as both (.CIA) for forwarder and (.3DSX) for hbmenu, both of which can be downloaded from the Universal Updater.

No I mean to launch games in mGBA directly from the 3ds screen.

 

[SylverReZ]

No I mean to launch games in mGBA directly from the 3ds screen.

The title of your thread said 'mGBA forwarders' as in a (.CIA) forwarder for mGBA right?

 

[zekro94]

The title of your thread said 'mGBA forwarders' as in (.CIA) forwarders. If you at least chosen a better title then it would've been as described.

As for launching games from mGBA, place the GBA ROMs into your "Games/GBA" directory, then launch them directly from the emulator. Doesn't matter which folder as long as you can remember it.

I think he means having the gba game on homescreen but instead of using the native emulator it launches the game using mgba. So imagine Warioland 4, you launch it and it goes ingame, then you can use the mgba settings directly ingame, so what he wants would be to not have to open the mgba app and instead open the game directly but still using mgba instead of the virtual console


Edit: Seems like NSUI might be able to do it. Haven't used it in some years so thanks SylverReZ

 

[lone_wolf323]

I remember reading that they were possible and functional months and months ago but the info dried up and it’s hard to find ANYONE who knows ANYTHING about mGBA for 3ds.

only thing i could find. its from 2022. might work. https://github.com/HeyItsJono/mgba-3DS-Forwarder

 

[LexDG]

only thing i could find. its from 2022. might work. https://github.com/HeyItsJono/mgba-3DS-Forwarder

Yeah i remember seeing that but thought there was an official note of something else on the way but I can’t remember if that was in discord, reply to suggestions on github, or somewhere else.

Post automatically merged: Dec 16, 2024

The title of your thread said 'mGBA forwarders' as in (.CIA) forwarders. If you at least chosen a better title then it would've been as described.

As for launching games from mGBA, place the GBA ROMs into your "Games/GBA" directory, then launch them directly from the emulator. Doesn't matter which folder as long as you can remember it.

nah. Just ask questions and say “oh” when you’re corrected. It’s easier. I promise.

 

[SylverReZ]

nah. Just ask questions and say “oh” when you’re corrected. It’s easier. I promise.

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/New_Super_Ultimate_Injector_3DS

There's also the Super Ultimate Injector to inject GBA games as separate forwarders. It supports both gpSP, mGBA, and the native GBA VC emulators. If that's what you're looking for, then great.

 

[ShinLarc]

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/New_Super_Ultimate_Injector_3DS

There's also the Super Ultimate Injector to inject GBA games as separate forwarders. It supports both gpSP, mGBA, and the native GBA VC emulators. If that's what you're looking for, then great.

This looks pretty cool

 

[SylverReZ]

This looks pretty cool

It's been out for a very long time, but it's super useful for building forwarders from your game library.

 

[NewHobbyWhoDis]

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/New_Super_Ultimate_Injector_3DS

There's also the Super Ultimate Injector to inject GBA games as separate forwarders. It supports both gpSP, mGBA, and the native GBA VC emulators. If that's what you're looking for, then great.

It seems I can only make forwarders for RetroArch mGBA. Do you know if there's anything similar for standalone mGBA?

EDIT: Image

 

[Asdolo]

It seems I can only make forwarders for RetroArch mGBA. Do you know if there's anything similar for standalone mGBA?

EDIT: Image

It will

 

[IceBlueLugia]

This worked well for me:

https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues/713

This might work even better? Not sure though, never tried it: https://github.com/HeyItsJono/mgba-3DS-Forwarder