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NanoBoyAdvance

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NanoBoyAdvance is a cycle-accurate Game Boy Advance emulator.
It aims to be as accurate as possible, while also offering enhancements such as improved audio quality.

Features

  • Very high compatibility and accuracy (see Accuracy)
  • HQ audio mixer (for games which use Nintendo's MusicPlayer2000 sound engine)
  • Post-processing options (color correction, xBRZ upscaling and LCD ghosting simulation)
  • Save State support (10x save slots available)
  • Game controller support (buttons and axises can be remapped)
  • Loading ROMs from archives (Zip, 7z, Tar and limited RAR1 support)
  • RTC emulation
  • Solar Sensor emulation (for example: for Boktai - The Sun is in Your Hand)
  • Debug tools: PPU palette, tile, background and sprite viewers

Running

Download a recent development build or the last stable release.

Upon loading a ROM for the first time you will be prompted to assign the Game Boy Advance BIOS file.
You can dump it from a real console (accurate) or use an unofficial BIOS (less accurate).

Accuracy

A lot of research and attention to detail has been put into developing this core and making it accurate.

  • Cycle-accurate emulation of most components, including: CPU, DMA, timers, PPU and Game Pak prefetch
  • Passes all AGS aging cartridge tests (NBA was the first public emulator to achieve this)
  • Passes most tests in the mGBA test suite
  • Passes ARMWrestler, gba-suite and FuzzARM CPU tests
  • Very high compatibility, including games that require emulation of peculiar hardware edge-cases

Compiling

See COMPILING.md in the docs folder.

Acknowledgements

Sister Projects

  • Panda3DS: A new HLE Nintendo 3DS emulator
  • Dust: Nintendo DS emulator for desktop devices and the web
  • Kaizen: Experimental work-in-progress low-level N64 emulator
  • SkyEmu: A low-level GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator that is designed to be easy to use, cross platform and accurate

Copyright

NanoBoyAdvance is Copyright © 2015 - 2024 fleroviux.
It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 or any later version. See LICENSE for details.

Game Boy Advance is a registered trademark of Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Footnotes

  1. RAR 5.0 is currently not supported.