Hello.
I've been using VBA 1.8 Link version ever since I remember, it's a great emulator, but very old, and has problems with some games.

I was reading about some newer emulators and decided to try VBA-M, however compared to VBA 1.8, VBA-M was dropping some frames and the gameplay wasn't as smooth and fluid as it was in VBA 1.8. Not to mention, the speedup option in VBA-M is terrible compared to 1.8.

So, I decided to try mGBA, which is hyped to be the best GBA emulator. Right off the bat, I noticed that 60fps games are giving me 30fps (or less) and it felt terrible. I made sure that frameskip is set to 0, I checked around every setting I could, but with no results. Then I changed the audio buffer to 512 samples and it improved the FPS, however I still noticed it's not as smooth as VBA 1.8. I launched side-by-side VBA 1.8 and mGBA and it was easy to tell which one had more smooth framerate.

There's also one more problem with mGBA that I cannot solve, in tools->settings->controllers I have two "USB gamepad" controllers to choose from. The one that's working is the second one, so I need to choose it and click apply for the controller to work. However, each time I restart mGBA, it reverts back to the first one, and I have to manually go into settings and set it to the second one. Every time I launch the mGBA.

I tried messing around with control panel, I went into controller settings and marked the correct controller as "default", but it still didn't help in mGBA case.

I'm looking forward to the development of mGBA, however I find it weird that an "outdated" emulator like VBA 1.8 can handle framerates much better than the "new" emulators such as VBA-M and mGBA.

Is it possible to completely disable detection of a controller altogether? I have a weird setup I use to play games and mGBA just doesn't like it. I have a wiimote + classic controller using GlovePIE + PPJoy. For some reason if I add a controller through the PPjoy dialog mGBA just constantly forces the controller to press up. I've tried everything from clearing all inputs to wiping them out in the ini and setting it to "read only" but nothing works except removing the controller from PPJoy. It just keeps forcing up on the d-pad, even if I have nothing set as the "up" input. This didn't seem to be an issue in 0.4.1, but I recently upgraded to 0.5.1 and meh. I don't need the controller part, I map the inputs with GlovePIE, but it's an annoyance if I have to keep removing/readding it. I can live with it, but I figured it would be worth asking.

I'm a noob when it come to this but can somebody please help me, I can't find a way to get to the cheat code menu on the mgba for vita

Hey! mGBA was a real life-saver, it's given me a solid 60fps on my Wii. However, I'm having some trouble with .sav file behavior. I have an Advance Wars 2 rom and save file I ripped myself using my DS Lite, and while they load perfectly in mGBA on the Wii, it seems that the .sav file is only randomly actually written to. I'll save a campaign ingame, exit to the menu and immediately reload the campaign, but the save did not "take" and I load a game from hours ago. However, if I save over and over again, that sometimes seems to work, oddly enough.

It might be worth noting that this particular .sav file has been loaded and written to by various versions of VBA on Windows, and I haven't experimented with fresh .sav files yet.

I was using the "mGBA-nightly-2016-10-03-wii-0a791a2f7d20ba53f0b66afb671581805334c463.7z" version and just switched to 0.5.1

Using save states works perfectly.

It's awesome that mGBA is being actively developed, I really needed a good Wii GBA emulator, keep it up!

is there suport on Nunchuck Controller for the wii version of mGBA , how do i use it? if not, will there be?

I think this would be a nice goal for stable builds and nightlies.

Maybe the goal could be $500 per month.

Hi everyone I am new here, so do not have a lot of experience on emulators.

After Pokemon Go became popular I just wanted to see if it was possible to play the gameboy games online and then a website, which you guys perhaps are familiar with called http://emulator.online/

So have playing some of the pokemon games and saved the progress so far. The savefiles are in the swf.save format.

So I found a lot of these walkthrough videos on youtube and learned about emulators, so you could use gameshark and trade etc.

After a while with unsuccesful results I finally found mGBA and works perfectly on a Mac. So finally to my question can I use swf files in this emulator, so I can continue on my journey or shall start all over in the emulator?

Regrds Bani

I can not get tilt to work. I read further and realized you needed a controller with analog. i get one and still nothings working. can someone please help me?

Hi all,

Is it possible somehow using mGBA to trade Pokemon in Pokemon Fire Red and the likes using an emulated GBA link? Even if it's something as simple as running 2 instances of the emulator and trading with yourself would be very nice to have.

Hi everyone, I played Pokemon Ruby on my iPhone using GBA4iOS, and backed up my save to Dropbox. After GBA4iOS got revoked, I downloaded mGBA for my PC, and loaded the save from Dropbox. Then I played for a while, and used a save state. I want to turn the save state into a save game later and put it in my Dropbox, so I can play Pokemon on my phone and PC.

However, I don't know where the save states are saved to. What is the location of save states and save games, and is there a way to change it? If I could save directly to Dropbox, it would be great.

Thanks for your time.