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GBA Emulator for Linux OS?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by tapwatah, Aug 3, 2007.

  1. tapwatah

    tapwatah Well-Known Member

    Is there such a thing? I have been looking around, but have found nothing. Does anyone out there know anything of that?
     
  2. xyzzy

    xyzzy Member

    Well, you could use Wine, a (sort of) Windows emulator. Then just run a GBA emulator on top of that.
     
  3. mikelenovo1

    mikelenovo1 Member

    Visual Boy Advance is available for Linux. It should be in most distributions repoisitories.
    http://vba.ngemu.com/
    http://fms.komkon.org/VGBA/

    A good front I have found is RbVBA
    http://www.users.waitrose.com/~thunor//rbvba/

    Visual Gameboy Advance works pretty well
     
  4. realg187

    realg187 Well-Known Member

    I use a flash cart, but for testing roms I use VBA Express. In Kubuntu I use it, try

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install vbaexpress
    Or yeah Wine VBA EXE for windoze.

    I am in Kubuntu now, I was surprised u could get emulators, just start up a package manager (Adept, Add/Remove, Easy Ubuntu, Automatix) and there are emus right there, there are GBA and SNES, probably more, what Distro you got?
     
  5. treec_cynda

    treec_cynda Guest

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install wine
    Wine runs Windoze programs on Linux. I don't know if it will work for you because you may not have Kubuntu. But if you have Wine, you can run No$GBA on Linux, but not VBA (I tried it, it didn't work).
     
  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    not all programs work in wine
     
  7. treec_cynda

    treec_cynda Guest

    I know that.
     
  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    other people who read this thread may not. The general rule is, if theres a native linux program that does the job, use that.