📜 Post with us on Reddit
📝 Create a new article
🏭 Create a company page
🇬🇧 - in English
🇫🇷 - en Français (FR)
🇵🇹 - em Português (PT)
🇩🇪 - auf Deutsch (DE)
🇯🇵 - 日本語で (JA)
Sponsored articles

You can edit almost every page by Creating an account and confirming your email.

VisualBoyAdvance

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki

VisualBoyAdvance
VisualBoyAdvance icon
Original author(s)Forgotten
Developer(s)VBA Team
Stable release
1.7.2 (Windows)
1.7.1 (Linux, BeOS)
1.7.4 (Mac) / May 25, 2004; 22 years ago (2004-05-25)
Preview release
1.8.0 beta 3 / October 1, 2005; 20 years ago (2005-10-01)
Repositorysourceforge.net/projects/vba/
Written inC, C++
Engine
    Operating systemCross-platform
    Size1.4 MB - 1.92 MB
    Available inEnglish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish (v.1.7 and above, for Windows only)
    TypeConsole emulator
    LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later

    Search VisualBoyAdvance on Amazon.

    VisualBoyAdvance-M
    VisualBoyAdvance icon
    Original author(s)Forgotten et al.
    Developer(s)VBA-M Development Team
    Stable release
    2.1.4[1] / 17 April 2019; 7 years ago (2019-04-17)
    Repositorygithub.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m
    Engine
      Operating systemCross-platform
      TypeConsole emulator
      LicenseGPL-3.0
      Websitehttps://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m

      Search VisualBoyAdvance on Amazon.

      VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles[2] as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2.

      Besides the DirectX version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free platform independent graphics library SDL. This is available for a variety of operating systems including Linux,[3] BSD, Mac OS X,[4] and BeOS. VisualBoyAdvance has also been ported to AmigaOS 4, AROS, GameCube, Wii, webOS, and Zune HD.[5]

      History

      The VisualBoyAdvance project was started by a developer under the online alias "Forgotten".[6][better source needed] When this person left the development of the emulator, the project was handed over to a team named "VBA Team", led by Forgotten's brother. Development on the original VisualBoyAdvance stopped in 2004 with version 1.8.0 beta 3, and a number of forked versions were made by various developers in the years since then, such as VisualBoyAdvance-M.[7]

      VisualBoyAdvance-M

      VisualBoyAdvance-M, or simply VBA-M, is an improved fork from the inactive VisualBoyAdvance project,[7] adding several features as well as maintaining an up-to-date codebase. After VisualBoyAdvance became inactive in 2004, several forks began to appear such as VBALink, which allowed users to emulate the linking of two Game Boy devices. Eventually, VBA-M was created, which merged several of the forks into one codebase. Thus, the M in VBA-M stands for Merge.[8] There is also a RetroArch/Libretro port of VBA-M's GBA emulation core (without the GB, GBC and SGB cores)[9] as well as a modified version called VBA-Next.[10]

      Features

      VisualBoyAdvance sports the following features:

      In addition, VisualBoyAdvance-M adds the following:

      • HQ3x/4x pixel filters
      • Game Boy linking, over LAN and Internet

      In conjunction with the Dolphin GameCube emulator, VBA-M supports linking GameCube and Game Boy Advance titles.[11][12]

      Critical security flaw

      The VBA emulator is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution through a feature that allows importation of cheat codes from files, which isn't protected against buffer overrun. By importing a malicious XPC file (usually containing a list of GameShark cheat codes), VBA and VBA-rr can execute arbitrary code contained within the file.

      Proof-of-concept XPC files have been written for VBA 1.8.0 and VBA-rr,[13] but VBA-M is currently not known to be vulnerable.

      See also

      References

      1. ↑ Github - Latest Release
      2. ↑ "Visual Boy Advance". The Emulator Zone.
      3. ↑ i"VisualBoyAdvance-SDL". The Linux Game Tome. 15 February 2019.
      4. ↑ "VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2". Softonic.
      5. ↑ "Visual Boy Advance GX". Google Code. 18 February 2022.
      6. ↑ "Visual Boy Advance". NGEmu. Archived from the original on 2009-12-17. Retrieved 2009-11-18. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
      7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Brendan Hesse (2020-11-23). "The best console emulators (NES, SNES, Genesis, and more)". Digital Trends. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
      8. ↑ "VBA-M (Archived - Now on Github)". SourceForge. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
      9. ↑ https://github.com/visualboyadvance/vbam-libretro [dead link]
      10. ↑ "GitHub - libretro/vba-next: Optimized port of VBA-M to Libretro". GitHub. 21 December 2021.
      11. ↑ "VBA 1.8.0 & VBA-RR: Stack buffer overflow in XPC file parser results in code execution". TheZZAZZGlitch. 12 September 2016.

      External links

      • Lua error in Module:Official_website at line 90: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).


      This article "VisualBoyAdvance" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:VisualBoyAdvance. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

      Page kept on Wikipedia This page exists already on Wikipedia.

      Retrieved from "https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=VisualBoyAdvance&oldid=6055812"
      License CC BY-SA 3.0
      Powered by MediaWiki