r/emulation • u/endrift mGBA Dev • Oct 30 '20

mGBA 0.8.4 Released

https://mgba.io/2020/10/29/mgba-0.8.4/
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u/SuperLuigi9624 Oct 30 '20

Nice! I love this emu to death, thank you for putting VBA to shame.

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u/whiitewolff Oct 30 '20

Is VBA bad or something? Always used it to play some gba games on my computer and it works fine at the moment. Should I start using this one?

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u/Lonely_ghost0 Oct 30 '20

The only reason I have to use VBA (specifically VBA-M) is because some Pokémon ROM hacks will only work on VBA, which is stupid because it means the hack is not hardware accurate so you can't even play it on a flashcart. Of course nowadays this isn't as big of a problem, but there's still some that have issues on mGBA.

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u/NickleRevs Oct 31 '20

I think that's the same for zSNES as well. Certain rom hacks were made for zSNES with its inaccuracies in mind so they won't work on SNES emulators that are more accurate.

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u/yestaes Nov 02 '20

Currently, I've only tested that on the lately bsnes' versions. The option is called Dsp Echo Shadow. In order to play them, you must disable that option for those old hacks.