A Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Game Boy Advance emulator for Wii, combining the menu/UI frontend of Visual Boy Advance GX (by Tantric) with mGBA as the emulation core in place of the original VBA-M backend.

• GB / GBC / GBA emulation via mGBA
• New tabbed interface - press L and R to cycle through tabs
• GBA/Game Boy Player and Super Game Boy border support (no borders are included with this project)
• Device color emulation
• Classic Game Boy color palettes (monochrome, green, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light)
• Constant fast forwarding through the settings menu (2x, 3x, 4x speed)
• Rumble support
• Wii Remote tilt support for games like Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (experimental - still a work in progress for games like WarioWare Twisted)
• Cheat code support (add/edit/delete/toggle, in-game)
• IPS/UPS/BPS patch support - drop a patch file next to a ROM with a matching filename and it's applied automatically at load time
• Save states and SRAM saves

Built with devkitPro (devkitPPC + libogc).

1. Install devkitPro and the wii-dev package group.

2. Clone this repo, then pull in submodules:

   git clone https://github.com/nateynaate/mgba-gx.git
   cd mgba-gx
   git submodule update --init --recursive
   

3. Build from the devkitPro MSYS2 terminal:

   make
   

Copy the built .dol/.elf to an apps/mgba-gx/ folder on your SD card for use with the Homebrew Channel. ROM and save folders are created automatically on first run.

• Tantric - Visual Boy Advance GX (coding & menu design), the base this project's frontend is built on
• softdev, emu_kidid - original VBA GameCube/Wii port
• The mGBA team / Jeffrey Pfau - mGBA, the emulation core this project now uses
• The VBA-M team - Visual Boy Advance - M
• shagkur & wintermute - libogc/devkitPPC
• And everyone else credited in the upstream VBA-GX project this builds on

This project is GPLv2, as a derivative of VBA-GX. The mGBA core it links against is separately licensed under MPL-2.0. See LICENSES.md for full license text and details on how the two fit together.