VisualBoyAdvance

What works

Video is just as good as on Windows with the new DirectX 9.0c implementation, so there's no dependancies. Keyboard and joysticks work, as long as they'll work on your host OS. All games from the original Game Boy to Game Boy Advance work.

What does not

Sometimes it will not be able to create DirectSound and there will be no sound in the game. Also do not use full screen mode or it will be very hard to change your screen resolution back.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Cheats and skins have not been tested yet.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Have fun!

In the newer version of wine 1.2+, the game becomes unstable if you use any of the menus or allow the program to lose focus. Make sure all the settings you want are set before you start the game, because you won't be able to change anything without it crashing afterwards. *Note: I am only able to test this on Ubuntu. Please, let me know if anyone else has this problem.

There is a minor tweak needed to get the emulator to run. There is a DLL that VisualBoy requires that Wine doesn't have, no one has decided to port the DLL to Wine.

With the new version of Wine (1.2), a couple before it as well, it winetricks is now included with Wine. Which makes this even easier.

Use this command:

winetricks mfc42

For older versions of wine:

Download Winetricks

Then Run this command:

sh winetricks mfc42