hal2k1 Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 is there an emulator for gba? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dones Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 There was an emu but it was quickly pulled out. Problably it was picked up by a company <--- rumor I read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 I think GBA is not powerful enough for the Atari800 emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 This appears to be the closest thing, but it hasn't been updated in ages. I believe it would be tough to run a fullspeed VCS emulator on the GBA. You already have Activision Anthology, right? Right???? That's about as good a portable Atari experience as you can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox Posted November 4, 2005 Share Posted November 4, 2005 The emulator is written in pure assembly language, the main emulator core is completely coded in Thumb and runs from ROM. The CPU emulation is a combination static recompiler & interpretive core -- for those pesky VCS games that run parts of their code out of RAM -- and is coded in ARM assembly running from the internal WRAM of the GBA. Frame rate is a respectable 39fps, and a little more optimisation will get that to a nice 60fps. There is no sound emulation yet 800/XL/XE/5200 are much more complicated than 2600 and you can't reliably use static recompiler since code is usually in RAM (unlike on 2600). Coding full 800/XL/XE/5200 in Thumb asm is tedious and I doubt we can reach 100% real speed even at 10fps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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