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Offline zedbedouin

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Game boy advance
« on: June 02, 2007, 04:55:09 PM »
Is there any game boy advance emulator for rockbox out here? Im dying to play my gba games on my ipod.
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2007, 05:52:48 PM »
Your iPod isn't fast enough to play GBA games.
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Offline zedbedouin

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2007, 06:48:24 PM »
ok thanks
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Offline zombieplasticclock

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2007, 04:35:24 PM »
 If you REALLY want to play GBA games, Ipod Linux has a emulator.

But it's REALLY hard to install IPL on a 5g ipod ;)

Sorry
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Offline Sambolina3

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2007, 09:31:57 PM »
Quote from: zombieplasticclock on June 03, 2007, 04:35:24 PM
If you REALLY want to play GBA games, Ipod Linux has a emulator.

But it's REALLY hard to install IPL on a 5g ipod ;)

Sorry

And the Ipl emulator is really really slow.  Just as Llorean said it would take a miricle to port gba to the Ipod.  The gigabeat would probably be a better candidate even though it would have some problems with were to put all the buttons.
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2007, 03:37:24 AM »
The gigabeat has enough buttons for the GBA.
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Offline Invader Zim 5.5G bg hack

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Buttons
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2007, 01:33:58 PM »
Let's See-iPod
Hold goesto menu
press hard play rewind and fastforward and Play and Menu For Directional pad
scroll Menu to Fast Forward=top right button
scroll Menu to Rewind=top left button
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Offline zombieplasticclock

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2007, 01:35:44 PM »
it's not an issue of buttons, guys. Even the crummiest GBA Emulator wouldn't run well on an MP3. Maybe the Sansa or the gigabeat, but it wold crawl on others.
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2007, 02:08:34 PM »
The Sansa's just as slow as the iPods.

The Gigabeat may not even be fast enough, depending on how well it can be optimized and how much hardware actually needs to be emulated, but it's the only currently supported player by Rockbox that might have a chance.
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Offline Sambolina3

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2007, 02:39:56 PM »
Its not so much the power of the gigabeat its weather or not someone could code it well enough (good luck to anyone that tries). ;D
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Offline kkurbjun

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2007, 01:27:26 PM »
The gameboy advance uses a 16 MHz ARM so I think it could be possible to run games at a reasonable speed on our other ARM targets (including the ipods), but it wouldn't be a traditional emulator approach.
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Offline gnu

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2007, 12:14:37 PM »
Since the GBA emulator of IPL runs at *some* speed, the Gigabeat should be more than capable of running it.
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Offline Llorean

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2007, 12:18:23 PM »
I'm sorry, but what? "*some*" speed is hardly a useful metric. If someone wrote it for my TI-89 it would run at *some* speed.
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Offline brarei200

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2007, 09:34:29 AM »
the gba emulaotr for ipodlinux is about 60% and is not that hard to installon a 5g just use installer 2.
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Offline gnu

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Re: Game boy advance
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2007, 12:55:52 PM »
If the gba emulator for IPL runs at 60% speed with 100 Mhz, than it would surely reach 100% speed with 300 Mhz, right?
@ Llorean: I wrote " *some* speed" because I couldn't access the IPL site at that time and therefore couldn't check how fast it really runs.
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