[GBC] Lufia The Legend Returns runs slow on VBA

For those of you who use VisualBoyAdvance (which ever version) to play both BGC & GBA titles, have you ever noticed that out of every GBC ROM VBA seems to have trouble running Lufia Legends?

The emulation rate usually drops to 75-80% when in towns or Caves but resumes 98-100% on the global map or if there are fewer game sprites or NPCs on screen.

I noticed this over a year ago, at first I thought it was my hardware limitation, but all other GBC ROMs run well, it's just this particular game. It's not a major issue.

 

Sounds like there's probably nothing you can do about the speed, unless you speed it up using frame skipping or change some of the settings around or something, or you could use a proper GBC emulator such as TGB-Dual. I use that.

Of course it wouldn't be a hardware problem, I mean come on, it's a GBC ROM.

 

Nah, I can tolerate it, so no need to get TGB Dual just to play this one game. It's just very peculiar that this game's dumbing down VBA, wonder what kind of programming magic the makers of this game did to make it hard to run on an emulator? ???