Homebrew CitrAGB - 3DS GBA Emulator (WIP)

[SushiKing]

Small list i know, will be bigger later 3ds almost out of juice and no charger where i am atm.

Hey thank you, ill play the ones that are working normal!

 

[Greymane]

The list will be bigger within a hour or 2 maybe faster, depending on how much trouble some games might give. finaly got home and thus access to a charger more testing.

 

[Vague Rant]

I just recalled that a few years ago, Dwedit made some fixes to a couple of GBA games (WarioWare and the Advance Wars titles) to stop them from using a loop which keeps the CPU at 100% at all times. After testing WarioWare on my New 3DS and finding the performance unplayably slow, I applied Dwedit's patch (USA ROM) and found the game now runs fullspeed. There are some minor graphical flaws, but barring anything more severe cropping up later, this seems like it would make the game entirely playable. I didn't test the Advance Wars games at all, but they would likely get a similar boost assuming that they run.

 

[Greymane]

Thats intersting, i should test them with those patches too would be nice if more games become playable because of it.

 

[Ratatapa]

What is the new boot suppose to fix? Homebrew doesn't launch with new boot, but does with old

 

[Greymane]

Did you reinstall the ironhax hack? or did you just replace the boot file? Also what it fixed was that some people could not use citragb for some reason if i read it right.

 

[Ratatapa]

I just replaced it

 

[Greymane]

You should re instal ironhax with the new boot file then it should work

 

[Electric91]

Oh, a re-install? Really? Damn!

 

[Ratatapa]

Ok but any reason to do it, if it already works?

GBA works, it just bug on alot of games and can't scale but exept that it works

 

[Electric91]

For some reason on mine the gameyob games are cut in half. i didn't test a lot though

 

[Astoria]

Did you reinstall the ironhax hack? or did you just replace the boot file? Also what it fixed was that some people could not use citragb for some reason if i read it right.

You don't need to reinstall IronHax, only replacing the boot file.

 

[Electric91]

You don't need to reinstall IronHax, only replacing the boot file.

Thanks, i was thinking it didn't make much sense to re-install.

 

[Damian666]

still doesnt work though, i replaced and tried a re-install, still white screen

 

[RustInPeace]

I installed the emulator from the OP, and the thing still runs pokemon games slowly.

 

[Greymane]

For so far i have tested every pokemon game runs slowly. In Fire Red it also give the error of not having a M1 circuit board installed.

still doesnt work though, i replaced and tried a re-install, still white screen

You could try a clean install fully taking of the stuff that is not needed to normely run your 3ds/n3ds and installing it again. If you however already tried this disregard what i said

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There we go tested all the gba games i had on my SD now on to the rest. yarhar didilidy

 

[shinyquagsire23]

While we're throwing around patches, http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=7529991#post7529991 for Fire Red might help with CPU usage. Haven't tried it personally, might do it now just for curiositie's sake. Also with that code you could probably Ctrl+F the same unpatched bytes in Emerald (maybe Ruby?) and find the same loops to change in those games.

 

[Shubshub]

While we're throwing around patches, http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=7529991#post7529991 for Fire Red might help with CPU usage. Haven't tried it personally, might do it now just for curiositie's sake. Also with that code you could probably Ctrl+F the same unpatched bytes in Emerald (maybe Ruby?) and find the same loops to change in those games.

If you had to say, What kind of speeds would you expect the emulator to provide for the original 3DS system in the near/far future

 

[KnightBearGames]

Again... This emulator is going to run just about everything slowly. And not everything is going to work. If you're trying to run a game and it white screens, that game isn't going to work.

When you're testing to see if your emulator works, run a game someone has gotten to actually boot up, slow or not. That'll give you definitive proof it works. In my case, I used Megaman Battle Network.

 

[Kikirini]

Is there any chance of this emulator being worked on a bit more in the future? Forgive me if I sound impatient.