VBA
Visual Boy Advance (VBA) is one of the most used (if not the most used) emulators for Game Boy Advance. Its advantages lie in the many functions, smoothness and to some also in this, that it's possible to use cheats. Other informations about it can be found here and also you can download it there.
How to use Visual Boy Advance - how to open ROM in there?
So, we download the emulator here. It's packed, so we need to unpack it (we can use Winrar for this) and open the unpacked folder. We can see here a few files. That with the Gameboy icon is starting EXE file. the next is here vba.ini initialization file, in which if you are more advanced user you can change some lines and by this also the setting of emulator.
We open the vba.exe (the file with the Gameboy icon). It looks like this.
For the opening of ROM you choose File/Open. You will choose folder where is the given rom located (we launch it directly in the system with Open with programm and find the location of emulator).
Important features - hints, manual, tips
In the menu offer File we have also following possibilities:
Save - allows to save actual position of game to the save file
Load - it allows to load some of the saved files
Save game - allows to save actual game to the saving position (slot) 1-10
Load game - allows to load actual position in game from the saved position
Othe possibilities are for the beginner users irrelevant (at least I think so)
In the offer Options we have following possibilities:
Frame skip - own setting of the speed of emulator
Video - setting of the size the emulator window, drawing method and layers
Emulator - important setting of the emulator, here is important Save type - it's good to set it to Flash 128K
Sound - setting of the sound and its volume, if you turn off the sound it usually get the game rate running faster
Gameboy - for beginners nothing important
Priority - also nothing important to the beginning users
Graphic filer - the same for beginners
Joypad - the setting of game control, default keyboard shortcuts are: arrows as in the arrows in Gameboy, Y/Z = A, X = B, Backspace = Select, Enter - Start.
Language - language settings - System (set the language according to the language of the operation system), English, Other (own setting of the language according to the third letter code)
Cheats - there's a manual about this here
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