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CEpeep
07-15-2004, 04:07 AM
It was on the front page. There's now a freeware version of NO$GBA. It's screaming fast, but more importantly, it supports link play. Only on the local machine, but it's still quite a feat. I was very impressed with it. It ran the games I tested it with at full speed on my 500 MHz box with no frameskip. Linkplay made it lag a bit with 2 GBAs emulated, and with 4, it was unplayable. I haven't gotten a chance to test it on my Duron box yet.

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The 9th Sage
07-15-2004, 04:26 AM
> It was on the front page. There's now a freeware version of
> NO$GBA. It's screaming fast, but more importantly, it
> supports link play.

Wow, it IS fast. For some reason VBA doesn't run well on this machine (2.2 ghz) when it runs ok, not great, but ok on a 677 mhz Celeron. Haven't been able to figure that out..

This emulator is super fast. it runs with no slow down at all. On the minus, I wish I could change the battery save's directory so it could use the same SAVs I have in the VBA directory with no muss or fuss, and it doesn't seem to want to load ROMs out of a zip file, and the display seems to bright to me, but maybe I'm just nitpicking.

*edit*
No, washed out is a better description of the display than bright now that I look again...
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SirDaShadow
07-15-2004, 04:58 AM
> *edit*
> No, washed out is a better description of the display than
> bright now that I look again...
there is a setting for original or vba colors (?)...im trying to play zelda 4 swords us with 4 players...but they dont seem to link...have you tried it?


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Audigy
07-15-2004, 02:54 PM
When I was in high school, I had a 286 that the school's network administrator gave to me for christmas one year.

I thought I'd be clever and try NO$GMB on it...

...I actually got Tetris to run, at about 3fps, with sound coming through the PC squeaker.

I was amused.

I will check out NO$GBA when I get home... what are thoughts on it as compared to VisualBoyAdvance?

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The 9th Sage
07-15-2004, 03:00 PM
> there is a setting for original or vba colors (?

Ah, that helps. Never mind. I didn't even notice that option there.

>...im
> trying to play zelda 4 swords us with 4 players...but they
> dont seem to link...have you tried it?

I would except I don't have that game, heh.


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Fla Flash
07-16-2004, 09:15 AM
It barely runs on a P233.
I'm thinking maybe a P2-400 or up.

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maq112k2
07-16-2004, 06:34 PM
> NO$GBA

Meh. It crashes with Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.


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Lobster Cowboy
07-16-2004, 08:16 PM
it's blazing fast, but for some reason, i can't get my controller to totally work with it. every button is functional except for d-pad up and down, making the emulator totally useless. the PSX pad works with every other app, so the problem must lie in No$gba

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Fla Flash
07-17-2004, 01:45 PM
Won't run for shit on a P233 - starts okay, but crashes a couple of minutes later. I'm willing to bet you need a P450 at least.

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SirDaShadow
07-17-2004, 03:40 PM
> totally useless. the PSX pad works with every other app, so
> the problem must lie in No$gba
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tried switching your pad to digital only?

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Lobster Cowboy
07-17-2004, 06:19 PM
> tried switching your pad to digital only?

yeah, i tried it both ways. good suggestion, tho'

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Glass
07-28-2004, 05:36 PM
It's pretty cool, but not all games will support link play. Kirby and the Amazing Mirror works just fine with a decent framerate for two players, but Four Swords crashes upon loading a save file, and Puyo Pop Fever crashes when you go to the link screen. Perhaps someone should maintain a list of what multiplayer games DO and DON'T work.

On a secondary note, how do you get multiboot to work?

Oh, and Puyo Pop Fever lags horribly on my Dell with two emulated gameboys. It even froze on me twice.


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