SwanGBA

[FluBBa]

So I made an official release of SwanGBA for the first time, there is a version of the old hacked builder included for Windows.
Compatibility should be more or less the same as the DS version (NitroSwan) but a lot of usability stuff is missing, like saving of anything.

https://github.com/FluBBaOfWard/SwanGBA/releases/tag/v0.7.4

 

[hippy dave]

Thanks!
Couldn't immediately get the builder running in Wine, so I followed the Formats.txt to manually build a .gba with GunPey EX. Either I'm misreading something, or the format info for the ROM header is missing 4 bytes. I had to move the ROM title up by 4 bytes so it was at 32 bytes into the header. After that it worked and I was able to play GunPey EX, seems to run great

Post automatically merged: Sep 20, 2024

Additional thought: maybe you could add a control option for vertical games, to use Select & Start as the action buttons. I know their placement varies between GBA models but it would be very handy on the OG.

 

[hippy dave]

For anyone else manually building a .gba, I see Flubba has updated the Formats.txt on github with the 4 reserved bytes that were missing, between rom flags and bios flag - ty

 

[OmDRetro]

I was able to build the latest 0.6.7-WSwan along with the latest dependencies for the SCFW pre-release kernel. I can confirm that the audio now works!

Great job, FluBBa.

 

[Beardielover]

It's awesome to see this! I imagine for it to work on an Everdrive Mini or EZ Flash Omega we'd need a custom kernel that supports it?

 

[hippy dave]

It's awesome to see this! I imagine for it to work on an Everdrive Mini or EZ Flash Omega we'd need a custom kernel that supports it?

No, you need to build a .gba file on your computer that includes the emulator and the game you wish to play, then you can run it on any flash cart/kernel.

 

[Beardielover]

No, you need to build a .gba file on your computer that includes the emulator and the game you wish to play, then you can run it on any flash cart/kernel.

Oh thank you, that's great to hear. I'll try it out.

 

[FluBBa]

Just a heads up, there is a new version.

• Fixed serial port read.
• Fixed IO registers startup values.
• Fixed IO registers writable bits.
• Fixed a glitch on the small dot icon.
• Fixed Branch Far & Call Far.
• Optimized some opcodes.

https://github.com/FluBBaOfWard/SwanGBA/releases/tag/v0.7.2

 

[FluBBa]

Just a small update with some edge case fixes

• Fixed reading of channel 3 frequency.
• Fixed ADPCM decoding for the Karnak chip.
• Fixed parsing of header on small ROMs.

https://github.com/FluBBaOfWard/SwanGBA/releases/tag/v0.7.5

 

[Flame]

When you ask somebody or kid what they want to be. They say Football player, a billionaire, movie star or superman.

When I grow up, I want to be @FluBBa the dev

 

[hippy dave]

When you ask somebody or kid what they want to be. They say Football player, a billionaire, movie star or superman.

When I grow up, I want to be @FluBBa the dev

Sorry, you're just not ruggedly handsome enough to be FluBBa. Don't feel bad, very few people are.

 

[KAZ_x01]

I wonder if in a couple of months\years this will be able to run games in full-speed. Or is that not realistically feasible considering the GBA specs?

 

[LeniF]

Is there any way of runing SwanGBA on a Supercard with SuperFW ?