Looking for GBA emulator for OSX

[Hyos]

Hi,

as I am used to the great quality of VBA-M I was sad when I realized Mac OSX is not supported. Are there any good GBA emulators out there for Macs?

I have only found VBA 1.7 for Mac and an old experimental build of VBA-M.

Hope someone can help me out, thanks.

[erise]

Unfortunately, there's not much. Here's what I know of:

There are several versions of VBA available here (including a 1.8.0u beta).

There is also Richard Bannister's Boycott Advance, although it hasn't seen an update to the emulator core in years.

Finally, Mednafen has Game Boy Advance emulation, although I don't know how well it works since I wasn't able to get the software to compile on my Intel Mac mini.

[Thristian]

Finally, Mednafen has Game Boy Advance emulation, although I don't know how well it works since I wasn't able to get the software to compile on my Intel Mac mini.

I got Mednafen to compile when I was interested in PC-Engine emulation, and it turns out that (On my PPC Mac, at least) it was far less buggy than Boycott Advance, and far faster that the VBA builds I've used, despite being based on the VBA source.

The downside of Mednafen, of course, is the lack of user-interface and the difficulty of tracking down, compiling and installing all the libraries Mednafen needs, as well as compiling Mednafen itself. I did it once, but (especially since I have a real, live GBA to play GBA games on) I can't be bothered doing it again.

[Nach]

as I am used to the great quality of VBA-M I was sad when I realized Mac OSX is not supported.

Ah, but it is.

As Kraid can attest too, VBA-M works fine on Mac OS X.

[Hyos]

Really? So is there an updated binary avaiable anywhere or do I have to compile myself?

Guess I'll check the VBA-M page again...

[Nach]

or do I have to compile myself?

Bingo.

[Neo Kaiser]

or do I have to compile myself?

Bingo.

Outch! That hurts!

[Hyos]

or do I have to compile myself?

Bingo.

Outch! That hurts!

Not at all, not me anyway. Thanks for the info, I was not able to find any info on this in the VBA-M site or forums. Now let's see how long it will take me to get this running

[Neo Kaiser]

or do I have to compile myself?

Bingo.

Outch! That hurts!

Not at all, not me anyway. Thanks for the info, I was not able to find any info on this in the VBA-M site or forums. Now let's see how long it will take me to get this running

I'm glad! There's many people who don't even know what the word compile is.

[Gil_Hamilton]

There's many people who don't even know what the word compile is.

Game company. Made some awesome shooters, then whored Puyo-Puyo for all it was worth until they died.

[Agozer]

There's many people who don't even know what the word compile is.

Game company. Made some awesome shooters, then whored Puyo-Puyo for all it was worth until they died.

Aye.

[erise]

or do I have to compile myself?

Bingo.

Outch! That hurts!

Not at all, not me anyway. Thanks for the info, I was not able to find any info on this in the VBA-M site or forums. Now let's see how long it will take me to get this running

I looked also and couldn't find any sources newer than the already compiled Mac version of VBA-M 0.1. Where are these updated sources available?

[I.S.T.]

SourceForge.

[mudlord]

Or to be more precise:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbam/

[Hyos]

Okay, I got the makefile to run on OSX and after a load of warnings it told me target vbamcore was built. But now I'm stumped, what would be the next step?