Description: Graphical front end to VisualBoyAdvance command line emulator to play GameBoy games/game ROMs under Linux
features: - graphical interface for playing - save configuration - easy game start and finish - change size of screen - display frame rate - select VisualBoyAdvance binary - select directory for GBA ROMs
legal game ROMS can be downloaded from http://www.pdroms.de
version 0.2 - new GUI tab in Options - auto frame skip on/off - set frame skip value - throttle on/off - set throttle value - RTC support on/off - YUV overlay settings - intelligent handling of command line options
version 0.3 - default VisualBoyAdvance config file used as conf file - possibility to edit all command line options manually in VisualBoyAdvance.cfg - Options Tab divided to 3: general, path, visual - screenshot directory changable from GUI - save state directory changable from GUI - sound volume, quality, echo, filter options - option to remove GBA intros - last saved configuration restored on next run - option to restore default configuration
version 0.3.1 - optional usage of external BIOS file
Hi, I tryed to make this software to work...I found some GBA games ...that are listed in the main window of the program. But when I select a game in the list and hit the Start button it says, Fatal Error ... Please set the path for VisiualBoyAdvance binary.
What do I have to do ? I'm stuck :(
Someone please help me.
Many thanks in advance.
in the register OPTIONS, you have to select the subregister PATH.
at fist textfield, you have to select /usr/bin/visualboyadvance.
Dont forgot to check the save-field at OPTIONS / EMULATOR!
I'd been wanting something like this, since dealing with the command line anytime I want to load a rom is a bit ridiculous.
I think the textboxes for path and game directory should be editable, since it's just silly not to. Also, I want to run VBA through artsdsp, but the loader isn't accepting that as a valid command even when I manually put it in the configuration file.
Other things that would be nice are more of VBA's options, especially things like BIOS file and controller settings.
thank you for your comments and suggestions!!! I will try to implement more features in the next release... will put yours on the ToDo list
:-)
cheers - pistooli
will be corrected... until that:
# Left - Left Arrow
# Right - Right Arrow
# Up - Up Arrow
# Down - Down Arrow
# A - Z
# B - X
# L - A
# R - S
# Start - ENTER
# Select - BACKSPACE
# Speed up - SPACE
cheers - pistooli
When I do the make it give me an error:
...
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrpengo/descargas/kvisualboyadvance-0.1/src'
/usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic -L /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/designer -nounload -o kvisualboyadvancedlg.h ./kvisualboyadvancedlg.ui
uic: File generated with too recent version of Qt Designer (3.2 vs. 3.1.2)
make[2]: *** [kvisualboyadvancedlg.h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrpengo/descargas/kvisualboyadvance-0.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrpengo/descargas/kvisualboyadvance-0.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
There is a version for QT 3.1? I'm using Mandrake 9.2 with KDE 3.1.3 and QT 3.1.2
well as it says the version of uic you are using is older than mine... which is strange... this program even compiles on a Lindows 4.5 machine which has KDE 3.0.x version only, so its QT must be older than yours.
are you just doing ./configure, make, make install?
cheers - peter
Ratings & Comments
32 Comments
Why KVisualBoyAdvance doesn't detect my .gbc and .gb rom images? Why they all have to be zip compressed?
Why KVisualBoyAdvance looks only for files that are in .zip? Why my .gb and .gba roms isn't found?
link brings to a 500 error
Thanks, but I managed to get it working in that day :) I am playing a lot of GBA games right now :)
Hi, I tryed to make this software to work...I found some GBA games ...that are listed in the main window of the program. But when I select a game in the list and hit the Start button it says, Fatal Error ... Please set the path for VisiualBoyAdvance binary. What do I have to do ? I'm stuck :( Someone please help me. Many thanks in advance.
in the register OPTIONS, you have to select the subregister PATH. at fist textfield, you have to select /usr/bin/visualboyadvance. Dont forgot to check the save-field at OPTIONS / EMULATOR!
here are alternative links for download: http://zack.cerza.org/~zack/files/debs/kvisualboyadvance/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=KVisualBoyAdvance&btnG=Search
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1660579/com/kvisualboyadvance-0.3.1-1plf.i586.rpm.html you can download this rpm and trasform it with alien, works fine :) only thing to do left is: sudo ld --whole-archive -share -o /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a because debian has no such lib ;)
Does this work on FreeBSD? i'm pretty new to using freebsd but i have it set to accept linux binaries.
I tend to believe that it does not... unless somebody will port it to BSD also...
Im pretty new to linux, will this app work on Gentoo?
Yes it will, write "# emerge kvisualboyadvance" in the command line and emerge will install it ;-)
I'd been wanting something like this, since dealing with the command line anytime I want to load a rom is a bit ridiculous. I think the textboxes for path and game directory should be editable, since it's just silly not to. Also, I want to run VBA through artsdsp, but the loader isn't accepting that as a valid command even when I manually put it in the configuration file. Other things that would be nice are more of VBA's options, especially things like BIOS file and controller settings.
thank you for your comments and suggestions!!! I will try to implement more features in the next release... will put yours on the ToDo list :-) cheers - pistooli
Would be nice, if you posted the controls here (or on the website), as they aren't described in the README.
will be corrected... until that: # Left - Left Arrow # Right - Right Arrow # Up - Up Arrow # Down - Down Arrow # A - Z # B - X # L - A # R - S # Start - ENTER # Select - BACKSPACE # Speed up - SPACE cheers - pistooli
Thanks!
external BIOS now can be configured and used from the GUI... :-)
hi, you should think about using layout handlers since the text doesn't fit into the window on my system. this can be seen on these screenshots: http://www.tuxipuxi.de/gba1.jpg http://www.tuxipuxi.de/gba2.jpg http://www.tuxipuxi.de/gba3.jpg anyway, thanks for this application. ciao, Michael.
thanks for letting me know... will be corrected in the next release... hope it does not affect the game play... ;-) cheers - pistooli
I hope the GUI problems are corrected now...
When I do the make it give me an error: ... Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mrpengo/descargas/kvisualboyadvance-0.1/src' /usr/lib/qt3//bin/uic -L /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/designer -nounload -o kvisualboyadvancedlg.h ./kvisualboyadvancedlg.ui uic: File generated with too recent version of Qt Designer (3.2 vs. 3.1.2) make[2]: *** [kvisualboyadvancedlg.h] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrpengo/descargas/kvisualboyadvance-0.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrpengo/descargas/kvisualboyadvance-0.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 There is a version for QT 3.1? I'm using Mandrake 9.2 with KDE 3.1.3 and QT 3.1.2
well as it says the version of uic you are using is older than mine... which is strange... this program even compiles on a Lindows 4.5 machine which has KDE 3.0.x version only, so its QT must be older than yours. are you just doing ./configure, make, make install? cheers - peter
Yes, I only do ./configure and make, and my Qt is the last found in the Mandrake repository. Using google I found more people with a similar problem, for example http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2003-12/thread01313-0.html Maybe are you using Qt 3.2?
that is for sure... but as I said the very same source compiles on Lindows, which uses a year old QT release... strange. cheers - peter