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Gameboid (GBA Emulator)

will0978 said:
So, i googled gba bios.bin and all of the ones i try i get the message that windows cannot open the file because it does not know how, or what created it. i need to know how to fix this, or if maybe a non-bin file would work.

thanks for the help
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Ah I see what you're saying. You don't need to open the file with Windows. Just copy it onto your phone some where. Then tell Gameboid where it is. :)
 
i have grand theft auto advance and when i run it on gameboid, i can start a new game but after the cut scene with the two guys talking, the screen goes black and dumps me onto my home screen. every time. and i tried a different rom to make sure. anyone else having this problem?
 
OK so I just got gameboid and I have the bin file but it doesn't read the roms I have. The file extension is .rar?

Should it be something else?


Nevermind. It is a form of a zip file. got it extracted and loading roms as we speak.
 
I'm pretty new with this GBA emulator could someone explain throughly how it works. I understand it plays old gameboy games but where do I get it. Is there a web site that I can go to download the games or do gthey come loaded. And does anyone knw if it has Pokemon
 
If you go through this thread it tells you what you need to do almost step by step. Get the emulator find the gba_biso.bin file and put it on your sd card and find your gmes ending in .gba for the file extension. The rest you must do on your own. You are technically supposed to have the games to be able to use the Rom.
 
This app has much potential. Unfortunately I have been experiencing crashes and sound issues. Seems to be oversampling. I hoped to give Yongzh some feedback but could not find a contact.
 
I have the lite version but it's not very responsive:

eg: when I start to run in Mario, Mario will run but keep running and won't jump or turn back... Is this just for the lite version or is it on all Android emulators?
 
sblaise84 said:
i have grand theft auto advance and when i run it on gameboid, i can start a new game but after the cut scene with the two guys talking, the screen goes black and dumps me onto my home screen. every time. and i tried a different rom to make sure. anyone else having this problem?
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When Yongzh fixes these bugz he will have best game app out there. We need to find a way to give him feedback.
 
Has anyone gotten Megaman Zero to work on Gameboid? The intro is a bit glitchy - some graphics load and some don't - and then when you're supposed to start playing it just dumps you to a black screen where all you can see is the health meter and nothing else. Is it just a game that doesn't work, or is there anything I can do?

Otherwise it's a great app, and I've had fun with Link to the Past even though I should really remap the buttons. :)
 
I think we should compile a list of games that Do and dont work on the First post. With a link to a wiki of the game or something and also color coded and later maybe even catergorize them by phone aswell.

Green = Fully working runs at great speed
Yellow= Partially working (excessive lag, random crashes, bad sound quality)/(resolution to problem if there is one)
Red= Doesn't start at all or cant get past title screen


So far the games that dont work for me are
This will not only be useful to users here but the developer aswell.

I'll just make a whole new thread.
 
Blackbrawler said:
I think we should compile a list of games that Do and dont work on the First post. With a link to a wiki of the game or something and also color coded and later maybe even catergorize them by phone aswell.

Green = Fully working runs at great speed
Yellow= Partially working (excessive lag, random crashes, bad sound quality)/(resolution to problem if there is one)
Red= Doesn't start at all or cant get past title screen


So far the games that dont work for me are
This will not only be useful to users here but the developer aswell.

I'll just make a whole new thread.
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yeah good call.
 
Any GBA_BIOS.bin should work right? Because I have one on my SD card but whenever I select it in Gameboid, it just says "Loading Bios failed" and tells to browse for a bios. Any idea why?
 
Hannan100 said:
Any GBA_BIOS.bin should work right? Because I have one on my SD card but whenever I select it in Gameboid, it just says "Loading Bios failed" and tells to browse for a bios. Any idea why?
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Just because you have it on your phone doesn't mean that gameboid actually accessed it... you need to browse your sd card and load the bios file through gameboid... if you already did this, and it still didn't work, the file is probably no good, and you'll need to find a different one that actually works...

I also wondered if anyone has tried to link the gameboid with other emulators, or gameboys... someone asked earlier, and I never saw a response
 
iceman said:
Just because you have it on your phone doesn't mean that gameboid actually accessed it... you need to browse your sd card and load the bios file through gameboid... if you already did this, and it still didn't work, the file is probably no good, and you'll need to find a different one that actually works...
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I've tried 4 different bios's now and none of them work :mad:

Step by step this is what I have been doing:

-Open Gameboid
-It tells me to either download or browse for a bios file
-I click on browse
-I go to the folder I have my bios and roms in
-It says "No files in this folder"

Have I done anything wrong?
 
Do you have Astro File Manager? link Install it and use it to verify the file is actually in the folder, and the file name is gba_bios.bin without any file extension behind the .bin
 
Hey guys, i downloaded the bios just fine and got it loaded up. I tried to download roms and some said error. I then got a few to download and when i went to load Roms it didn't work. The ones that dowloaded say load rom failed. what can i do. I have astro and linda, but i don't know if i need anything else.

Max

I just got one of the games to work but it seems it is only from one of the websites, so if you have any advice to get the other sites to work that would be great I also only have the lite version
 
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