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This program is distributed under the GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Based on the official VisualBoyAdvance by Forgotten & the VBA development team Original Project Homepage: vba.ngemu.com =================== System Requirements =================== OS: Windows 2000 - Vista (x86 or x64) CPU: min. 700 MHz for GBA emulation, CPU requirements increase if filters or oth er improvements are enabled RAM: ~64MB free GFX: ~32MB VRAM, latest drivers supporting DirectX9 SND: Anything with working Windows drivers ================= Required Runtimes ================= DirectX Runtime Web-Updater: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a -9b6652cd92a3&DisplayLang=en MSVC 2008SP1 Runtime (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB 7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en (x64) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BA9257CA-337F-4B4 0-8C14-157CFDFFEE4E&displaylang=en zLib http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip =================

Optional Runtimes ================= OpenAL Installer for Windows: http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=1&Source =http%3A%2F%2Fconnect.creativelabs.com%2Fopenal%2FDownloads%2FForms%2FAllItems.a spx&RootFolder=%2Fopenal%2FDownloads ================= Optional Filters ================= http://vba-m.ngemu.com/vbam/vbafiles/filterplugins.rar ============== To Do List ============== Important: - Many games show emulation warnings in the log window (unaligned read, bad read /write address) - Test: Metroid Fusion, Advance Wars 2 - Gfx.cpp/h optimization - Test: Final Fantasy 4 airship intro - Improve automatic 64k/128k flash save detection - Pokmon Emerald hangs with white screen when no save state exists and wrong fla sh size is selected - Remove 16 bit hack for filters - Not compatible to software motion blur (display corruption) - Add selection for compressed archives with more than one ROM in them - Fix LCD colouring - Game Bugs: - Drymouth - screen flashes black after certain scanline - World Reborn - 2 graphics bugs Less important: - Add GBA cheat editing support (GB already has) - Look at Cheats.cpp (Core) and GBACheats.cpp (GUI) - Add documentation for VBA-M (configuration guide) - Improve AVI recording (produces asynchronous files) - Enable audio stream compression for AVI files - Add stereo upmixing support to OpenAL - Verify BIOS files by checksum instead by file extension - Merge HQ2x/LQ2x C code into code for HQ3x/4x - Apply pixel filter to sprites and BG seperately for better image quality Performance:

- Apply HQ3x/4x optimizations from C version to ASM version - Apply pixel filter only to changed parts of the image - Make even more use of multi-core CPUs - Make use of 64 bit CPUs - Have a look at the liboil optimization library - http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ========== Known Bugs ========== - Linking: Doesnt work quite right yet. - Audio core: assertation error occurs when disabling sound in GB mode - I think its best we mute sound instead, since some games rely on audio for ti ming. Plus, blargg's GB_Snd_Emu is extremely optimized stuff. (Mudlord) - blargg's core implementation broke Dwedit's GBC emu. - Wrong bit depth image is displayed for 2 frames when switching from/to HQ3x/4x ASM - This is caused by the 16bit hack which does not re-process the emulated image . It results in the display devices treating the image at pix with the wrong bi t depth. ======= Credits ======= Mudlord Nach Squall Leonhart Spacy DJRobX Jonas Quinn ============== Special Thanks ============== Forgotten & the VBA development team: - For creating VisualBoyAdvance - Couldn't you have written cleaner code??? chrono: - Fixed a bug in the HQ3x/4x filters - Made HQ3x/4x and Bilinear filters (ASM versions) thread-safe - Many other fixes.... bgKu: - GTK GUI port - Various assistance with Linux issues

xKiv - Assistance with Linux SDL port blargg: - Assistance with the implementation of his highly accurate GB audio core - Implemented his unreleased File_Extractor library - Cleanup of the audio core interface