zx81 unleashes PSPVBA v1.0.4!

Posted Jul 3, 2006 at 1:48PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, News, Emulators Tags: Exploit, Gameboy Advance, GBA, PSPVBA, Zx-81
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PSPVBA


zx81 is my favorite developer. And it's for a reason. This guy simply doesn't know how to stop once he gets rolling. He's done it before with countless emulators, and now, he's doing it again with the GBA emulator, in the way only he can.

Update after update after update! The GBA emulator, PSPVBA has received another big update! I'd assume that most of you are familiar with his speed. So let's cut to the chase, shall we? The emulator has received another boost. I'll let him do the explanation in the changelog:
  • Emulator menu is now directly available on startup
  • Add turbo modes, but it can result in graphic artifacts but you can win up to 20% ! (turbo modes don't work for all games)
  • Add ARM tick average change option (can be used to increase speed)
  • The file default.kbd (keyboard mapping) is now loaded on startup
  • Screenshots are now save in BMP format instead of PNG (less memory consuming, so it should not freeze your PSP).
  • Many more bug fixes
And as usual, the application is released under the GPL license, which means that the source is bundled along. Plus, there are 2 separate versions, one for 1.5 and the other for 2.0 and above.

One note of caution though, the emulator doesn't work on 2.0 using the TIFF exploit. If you're running it on 2.0 or above, you'll need to use the GTA exploit.

Download Link : [PSPVBA: Gameboy Advance Emulator v1.0.4]
View : [Forum Release Thread]

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by DBsummit - 2006-07-03 09:17
» cool

first?

by sweet - 2006-07-03 09:17
» sweet

sweet

by Nick - 2006-07-03 09:18
» problems

dont know if it is me, but i cant get it to download.

by Nick - 2006-07-03 09:21
» nevermind

disregard my download post, i got it to work

by core tactic - 2006-07-03 09:21
» See? Told you!

I said that we'd get 2 more releases this week!

by Phloem - 2006-07-03 09:24
» Oh Yeah!

Good work! Keep it coming!

by Ranmax09 - 2006-07-03 09:30
» YAY :D

I can't wait for this emulator to run at full speed!

Gonna play all the Mario's and legacy of goku

by meeee - 2006-07-03 09:31
» PLEASE READ ZX-81

great release thanks alot games are going great now with all the messing around in the options but may you get games over like 4 mb to work with iut though i would like to play more games but thanks anyway i really appreciate this and thanks for constant updates

by Not You! - 2006-07-03 09:39
» lots of updates

Can't he like.. wait with the update until it's version 1.1 or something? I see this news AT LEAST ONCE EVERY fricking week.

by Cool - 2006-07-03 09:39
» Though

Have aldrady played most GBAgames with my GBA and flashcard(s), but it always nice to know you can have them on your PSP.



and 4mb rom was pretty much standard for GBAroms that was first released, its about 32Mbit. Biggest rom to GBA that does exist today is 256Mbit (32mb). But I think it exist one ROM that is bigger, 512Mbit (64mb), was some *****ty Sims (bustin out) game.

by word - 2006-07-03 09:42
» fsdgf

yea but alot of games i have are around 16 mb and dont run and give me a black screen

by zx-81 - 2006-07-03 09:42
» lol

@10: You're the first asking me not to release everyday



@all: Thanks !

by tank - 2006-07-03 09:45
» AWESOME

i love u man! ur the best and u should keep improving it, cuz everything u attempt to do, u succeed!

by dipset - 2006-07-03 09:45
» word

zx81 i have a question im 16 would it be to late for me to try to get into coding and where would i start to learn stuff like that

by lklelvliln - 2006-07-03 09:52
» Kinda Mean

This is a quote from the article. "This guy simply doesn't know how to stop once he gets rolling. "

by zx-81 - 2006-07-03 09:53
» :)

@12: Try unzipped version ?



@14: Thx



@15: ask your question in a PSP forum, many coders should answer you, better than me :)

by ali - 2006-07-03 09:57
» nice

speed seems the same for me. But dont argue about it since it reequires a lot of work.....but then again.....if there is a n64 emulator......it should not be long for a full speed version.

by ASTROPUNK - 2006-07-03 10:01
» GREAT WORK

Keep up the great work zx-81. Hey lklelvliln, how was that comment kinda mean? Sounds like a COMPLIMENT TO ME.

by Anonymous Coward - 2006-07-03 10:08
» Yep

Yeah, you should try to release updates less frequently. Like say you found this stuff out, well, don't release it yet. Find other improvements to it, then release that update or an update after that. Because then people would have to keep downloading and uploading the emulator to their PSP then getting the ROMs every time an update comes out (which is like every week or more!). Hope you get what I'm saying. Just a suggestion though.

by André - 2006-07-03 10:09
» Awesome!

Great work zx-81.



Some people may never write it down or tell you anything, but I'm sure your work is highly appreciated everywhere!



If I ever see this running at full speed I'll be one of the happiest men on Earth. Really!



I hope you continue your brilliant work! Keep up the releases ;)



I'll be here telling my mates how great this is.



PS: I'll be joining the forums soon.

by Bionic - 2006-07-03 10:12
» to nr.21

Just let him do his thing will ya? This way he keeps himself in the spotlight. All the luck in the world to you, ZX-81!

by yourdaddy - 2006-07-03 10:13
» hels yea

***** yea zx-81 is *****ing awsome i can finally play mother 3 (translated to english) in my psp comfortably

hels yea

by NRG - 2006-07-03 10:19
» Nice!

Thanks a lot zx-81!! Like 23, I wish you all the luck in the world!!

by Soban - 2006-07-03 10:20
» Updates!

Great work zx-81! I for one appreciate the regular updates. Almost reminds me of y .

by eggwonder - 2006-07-03 10:20
» uh...

uhh #21 im confuzzled... why do u have to keep dowloading the roms



heres an idea for you... dont delete the roms... just put the new version in over the old that way all of your roms,keyboards, savestates and all of your screenshots will still be there and just the files that were changed would be different and u could start it up and run all of your roms with their savestates.



btw great work from what the article says and keep it up. ill test it out as soon as i get my psp back(downgraded it saturday afternoon... got grounded sunday morning for not knowing how to tie a tie.)

by jonas - 2006-07-03 10:22
» hmm

does pokemon fr work now?

by Uhyve - 2006-07-03 10:24
» Hmmmm...

Nice update. I don't know why people keep saying that they can't get ROMs over a certain size to work. Practically every ROM I've tried works (except Kingdom Hearts), you're not running them zipped are you?



#21: I've got an idea, if you get tired of downloading your ROMs every time an update is released, maybe you should just... like.... not delete them or something....



I for one, love the updates, it's not like it takes a long time to upload them to the PSP or anything. Kudos zx-81.

by FLai - 2006-07-03 10:25
» .

ok, where is the n64 emulator?! i can't wait for it. don't really care about GBA.....

by w000t - 2006-07-03 10:34
» Cool!

This is pretty cool, but i hope this doesnt become like the snesY emulator, there was a release every day! but the only updates were a few graphic and a few sound fixes, i remember that there were like 32 releases, but the speed was pretty bad...

I hope this guy keeps working on this, i would love to have a full speed gba emulator.

by ElAdriano - 2006-07-03 10:53
» You're the best!

Great job ZX-81!

by anonymous - 2006-07-03 11:03
» yeesh

->30



if you dont care about gba, then why even bother making a comment about a gba emulator in the first place? stop wasting your time then



but gj ZX, hope this gets done

by tre - 2006-07-03 11:04
» Lol

keep them comming man if you wait to release it I may forget to check the site and miss it I dont live here like some loosers...





When is that ultrahle n64 full speed emu comming?

by ravenx - 2006-07-03 11:15
» Pokemon?

Does anyone know of a psp emulator that will run any pokemon games full-speed? Does this one?

by uranus - 2006-07-03 11:15
» abc its easy as 123

wow.. nice

by op - 2006-07-03 11:17
» .

How's the speed and sound difference? Can you play a Mega Man game pretty well? Is it smooth? Is it choppy?

by ravenx - 2006-07-03 11:22
» Pokemon?

Does anyone know of a psp emulator that will run any pokemon games full-speed? Does this one?

by Youre an idiot - 2006-07-03 11:44
» Ummmmmmm

To the guy whop keeps saying hes playing mother 3 translated everytime a new version of this comes out, you are so full of *****. Not only is that game not translated (yet!) but the original japanese version of it will not run on ANY gba advance emulators. I know because ive tried. Its 32 mb and just results in a white screen amd reboot (in every gba emu) so EVEN if you somehow did have a hacked english version, it would be even more unstable than the original. I hope you feel accomplished now that one person has responded to your idiocy.

by 2.6 - 2006-07-03 11:54
» Keep it up!

Great job bro!

I can't wait till i get a rom to run at least 35FPS.

BTW what is the full speed for gba? 60 right?



Can anyone tell me what the percentage next to the FPS relates to? is it 100% is base with no frame skip, turbo ect. anything above is with the options cranked up?



Im glad to see someone working on this. the last gba emu i tried i gave up on becouse of the way you had to load the roms.



Keep up the good work

by maverick990 - 2006-07-03 12:35
» YEAH ZX-81

I love your releases, looking forward to the next one! Keep up the great work!

by asdffd - 2006-07-03 12:56
» illegal but

I use freeroms.com for everything mostly, but where can you quickly get gba roms? *****loads of fake sites out there.

by delirum - 2006-07-03 13:08
» Question

ZX-81



Will your emulator have 256bit support?

by Dragoon - 2006-07-03 13:14
» Awesomeness!

Thanks again, ZX-81. I hope you continue to roll out updates.



This is awesome, We'll probably have another one in a few days. xP

Dragoon

by Ronnie - 2006-07-03 13:19
» at #42

Use torrent sites for GBA roms and practically everything else :)

On the most popular torrent site you will find ALL the GBA roms zipped in packages.

Search for them.

by jubilant - 2006-07-03 13:43
» ok...

Dont worry about them, you release as often as you like cause you're cool like that. Its nice that you release updates often cause i like to come to this site and find something new to download every day, not that you have to release everyday. Besides some people are just lazy by not wanting to update.

by deadnoob - 2006-07-03 14:20
» note

that last note shoul dbe changed from



"One note of caution though, the emulator doesn't work on 2.0 using the TIFF exploit. If you're running it on 2.0 or above, you'll need to use the GTA exploi"



to



"DOWNGRADE!"

by ZeroGiga - 2006-07-03 15:26
» NICE!

Although TOO bloody slow.

Other than that, awesome job!

And it works on 2.60, too!

by Ninjabreadman - 2006-07-03 16:19
» GBA!. :D

Hell yeah! another release, keep up the good work ;). I`ll buy you a beer when it`s at full speed. ;)

by pff - 2006-07-03 16:39
» pffffff

Not even puzzle league can run properly on this

by Chris - 2006-07-03 17:13
» You are the Man!!

You are the Man Zx-81!!



I appreciate your frequent updates because it really gives me a hope that I'll be able to play GBA on PSP

someday.



Anyways, please keep up the great work!!



woohoo~~

by Sakyr - 2006-07-03 18:40
» Thumbs Up!

Good Job zx-81!! Keep up the good work and as for releases whatever they say keep them coming,if there to lazy to upgrade we don't care i want improvement no matter how small it is.



Thx again zx-81!!

by Fr3@k - 2006-07-03 19:01
» FFIV

Does FF IV work with this??

ive tried it yesterday and it wouldnt work

by EmuChicken - 2006-07-03 19:24
» Keep it coming!

Like a steamtrain til its at full speed and awesome!



... Appreciate all the work thats been put into all your projects! ... Dont listen to these losers that ask for N64 or whatever- theyre idiots!.. do whatever you feel like



Whats gonna be your next project once this has completed then? Amiga ? *hint hint hint* hehe

by Rogier - 2006-07-03 19:36
» Yeaahhh!

Come on ZX 100 % Full speed is where we are waiting for

I LIKE IT

by zx-81 - 2006-07-03 20:35
» @all

Thanks :).

by silly - 2006-07-03 20:38
» cool

I'm 100% sure that this emulator will be full speed.

I would bet anything for it.

Just give it a few more months.

by shortboy - 2006-07-03 20:55
» eek!

It looks like the PSP auto shuts up (after a few long seconds) when trying to access KHCoM. It's like..when you load it and then TRY to press anything, it'll just...go blank and turn off...but everything is running fine. I usually try MegaMan Battle Network 6 Gregar Version and I'm seeing improvements in that so there is definately improvement in this emu :).

by shortboy - 2006-07-03 21:08
» hahah oops....

Auto shut OFF!...not...shut..up....

by HI - 2006-07-03 22:13
» HELP PROB WITH DL.QJ.NET WEBSITE

HEY WHEN I PRESS DOWNLOAD ON THE WEBSITE, IT JUST REFRESHES THE PAGE....IT DOES NOT ASK ME TO OPEN THE FILE OR SAVE OR WADEVER..IT JUST REFRESHES THE PAGE..

by Lunar - 2006-07-03 23:43
» Pokemon Games

It would be so awesome to get Pokemon compatability with this Emu. It's the only GBA game that I know that's good.



Regardless this is one hell of a good job zx81!

by Penpen - 2006-07-04 00:44
» BLECH. :|

Excellent update as usual, ZX. Don't mind the people whining about so many updates, heh. You all don't HAVE to download the damn thing if you don't want to. You're more than welcome to WAIT until he gets the emulator where YOU want it to be. ;')

by re4ryu - 2006-07-04 00:45
» zx-81 rocks!

zx-81 is the type of coder to put on a tough mission like this. he has that determination and strength to kepp on going unlike others. keep it up zx-81, your work is really appreciated!



re4ryu

by Pauleo - 2006-07-04 01:57
» Help

i've got a 2.01 psp using gta eloader but pspvba dosnt show up on the menu, i copied the pspvba folder into the games folder on my psp, can some one help?

by Omg - 2006-07-04 02:16
» omg

I just took 5 Ectasy Pill im high as a mofo!

by skatehead - 2006-07-04 04:51
» cool..

dumb as a mofo more like it

by gagi ma - 2006-07-04 05:08
» bisi schnäbi

fotzen dreck

by moe - 2006-07-04 05:09
» kickass

o snap, o snap zx-81, your gba emulators are f**king sweet kickass dude i cant wait for the next update!!!

by Topato - 2006-07-04 06:26
» 8(

>>50



Puzzle League? Why not just play Tetris Attack with Snes9x? Same game, better graphics.

by eggwonder - 2006-07-04 07:52
» i tested it out...

yeah i tested it and the new features are good but screenshot froze my game for like 15 seconds when i tried it so i dunno if the bmp is better or not.

by hey - 2006-07-04 12:26
» .rar

hey guys, i use win rar. to un rar my homebrew stuff. but its only a trial. and i don't wanna pay. does anybody know of any program that'll let me unrar programs for free. my winrar program's free trial is allmost over

by thesack41 - 2006-07-04 15:08
» Keep em coming...

You are doing great work zx-81, everyone likes to see new updates on this website! You the man!!!

by HEEEEELP - 2006-07-04 16:43
» HELLLP

. » .rar



hey guys, i use win rar. to un rar my homebrew stuff. but its only a trial. and i don't wanna pay. does anybody know of any program that'll let me unrar programs for free. my winrar program's free trial is allmost over

by 2.0 user - 2006-07-04 16:55
» ur gay

my 2.0 crashes when i use this i use the gta eloader like u say .... ur gay ..... nah im kiddin .... but yyeah wats wrong with my game

by DarkRumination - 2006-07-04 18:48
» none

ZX-81 your awesome! stoked for each and every update man. im sure you know this, but dont mind the people who ***** and moan, your doing great work and have made many superb contributions to the psp scene and none of them should even have the privelage to attempt to insult you

by Vinayak - 2006-07-05 04:18
» ZOE: Fist of Mars

I for one am very pleased with the sudden surge of updates for GBA, for months I saw nothing update, I feared nothing would enhance in the world of PSP GBA emulators. Thank you zx81 for giving me some hope that I may one day play Zone of The Enders: Fist of Mars, glitch/problem free. Keep up the good work.



P.S- I haven't tried the emulator yet, so that day may be today.

by ryan - 2006-07-05 14:49
» help

how do i run it on 1.5 firmware i got it to run on my 2.6

i tryed using kxploit 0.3 but i loads and gos right back to the psp without ever starting

by Jake - 2006-07-06 04:33
» Help also

I can't get it to work either, i am using firmware 1.5 and i put the 1.5 files on my psp and i get an error when i try to start, any help would be greatly appreciated

by bad boy - 2006-07-10 11:55
» save files

i have downloaded a save file for a gba rom, where do i put it for it to work? The rom works fine but i want to get the save file to work.

by slasher4u - 2006-07-16 06:38
» i can't run a game

i can't run yugioh ultimate masters world championship 2006 can someone help me please?

by 马爹 - 2006-08-27 19:45
»

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