Talk:VisualBoyAdvance

message: Is it legal to play GBA games on this thing?  I think people should understand the license agreement with ROMs.  Unless of course, we already have an entry on the subject.
so long as you own the actual game, i would think it would be perfectly legal under the fair-use provisions of copyright law, barring a DMCA-based argument against it.  i have no idea if the form-factor of the cartage or the format of the game data could be considered a form of copy-protection. 204.83.242.189 08:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legality of emulators 

message: what file type are the roms supposed to be? .rom? .htm?
:It's .gba, a special filetype created for it, mainly. --Kaizer13 01:09, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  file type? 

message: I see that a recent edit removed a link to the VBA-M (the "super VBA"), and I think it would be a useful link to keep considering it combines most (if not all) of the various VBA forks into one. This would also remove the need for links to the various forks. NightKev (talk) 22:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  VBA-M link 

message: This article has been tagged for needing additional citations since June 2011.  We need to get some reliable third-party sources in here - all of the citations in here now are either primary or self-published sources, or are links to source code repositories.  If there aren't any good third-party sources covering this emulator, then the article doesn't meet the general notability guideline and may be redirected to List of video game emulators. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 15:48, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need better sources 

message: I'm proposing that the article VisualBoyAdvance-M be merged with this article. I feel that VBA-M, although a more modern and improved version of this software, is still not notable enough for a full article. Its article is very small as is, and VBA-M is already mentioned in this article, so a merge would require little effort.  Jdc1197 - (talk · userpage · contributions)   23:09, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Proposal with VisualBoyAdvance-M 

message: mGBA is an emulator from 2013, that was built from a novel codebase with no direct relation to VisualBoyAdvance. However, the recent 0.9.0 release refreshed the Dolphin (emulator) link that was in a broken state for a long time.
Rather than create a new page for mgba, would anyone be opposed to adding a section on the development here? It seems that prominent gameboy emulators of the past (NO$GBA) and others, have been deleted. So this article is the only place I see left for this development.
See:
https://mgba.io/2021/03/28/mgba-0.9.0/#oh-yes-and-another-often-requested-feature
https://mgba.io/faq.html
Avindratalk 01:26, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If we can find three different reliable sources that cover mGBA, I'll show you how to proceed. Though Vicki Pfau's own website mgba.io doesn't count for notability, Bijan Stephen's article from April 2019 probably does. Got two more? --Damian Yerrick (talk) 00:23, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  lifning dug up an article posted in May 2021 about uncredited use of mGBA in a Medabots rerelease: article by Joseph Allen. An article by Damien McFerran covers the same incident. One more and we should be set. --Damian Yerrick (talk) 16:10, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Found #3, and it's in Dutch. As of 2022, mGBA was still under active development.[ref]Wesley Akkerman. "De beste GBA-emulators voor pc". ID.nl, 2022-03-18. Accessed 2022-11-29.[/ref] --Damian Yerrick (talk) 14:44, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  mGBA