GBA Emulator

**Porthos** · 5th June 2003

Ok, I wana buy the gp32 but I have to konow about the GBA emulator.

I don't mind if ther is not one available now but will there definately be a fully working GBA emulator on the GP32 within a year?

**_Belial** · 5th June 2003

without a crystal ball you're never going to get an asnwer to your 2nd question.

There isn't one out now.

There is one in production

but will it ever runn 100%? who knows, it's emulation, it'll be buggy for ages, they dont even have 100% snes working yet and the ones that do need massive frameskip and no sound to get decent playable stuff on there.

If gba is your reason for getting a gp32 then dont bother, buy a gba instead.

**Porthos** · 5th June 2003

they r very close at the mo, although the gp32 has so much going for it at the end of the day gba has some top games.

If gp32 was capable of playing GBA then it wud blow the gba out of the water.

is it physically capable of it?

**{{909}}** · 5th June 2003

i think it can, but its not gonna be here in a good while yet, the gba can do everythin a snes can with a few extras, snes emu is far from perfect on the gp32 but theyre getting there, i think once thats mastered then a gba emu may appear.

its worth noting that its kinda against emu morals to emulate a current system, so there will be less people willing to develop an emu for the gba

**Porthos** · 5th June 2003

'its worth noting that its kinda against emu morals to emulate a current system, so there will be less people willing to develop an emu for the gba'

i think what you are saying is that emulators r founded on the concept of retro gaming so its mor common with older systems and also people dont feel they r doin nethin wrong in emulatin a ded system yea?

howeva i think the reality may b that current systems r generally not emulated becuz current systems r often of similar spec and an emulatin machine tends 2 need 2 b significantly mor powerful then the machine it emulates (which I believe the GP32 is)

wats this about a 'private gba' emulator?

**{{909}}** · 6th June 2003

not sure about the private one u mention, i think the one thats known to run about 3 roms at 2fps is still private, doesnt really matter if it doesnt run anythin playable.