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VisualBoyAdvance

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VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is an emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.

Besides the DirectX version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free platform independent graphics library SDL.

As of 2008, VisualBoyAdvance is the most popular such emulator for Windows. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, VisualBoyAdvance is free software.



Installation

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# pacman-g2 -S visualboyadvance


Use

You may use the command :VisualBoyAdvance

type,

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$ VisualBoyAdvance

This will display availables options.

Tou launch a game :

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$ VisualBoyAdvance game.zip

where game.zip is the ROM file in .zip format ;-)

VisualBoyAdvance has its own GUI, tou launch it, type:

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$ gvba

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Vbaexpress

Vbaexpress is a frontend VisualBoyAdvance.

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Installation

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# pacman-g2 vbaexpress


Kvisualboyadvance

kvisualboyadvance is a frontend of VisualBoyAdvance for KDE.


Installation

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# pacman-g2 kvisualboyadvance
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