VisualBoyAdvance

What works

Version: 1.1

The game runs well under wine; everything, on the aspect of gameplay and graphics are identical to running it under Windows.

What does not

I used an older version of mfc42.dll, and so the program froze when trying to call up a save dialog. This applies to the open dialog also, and possibly others. I suggest using the "save state" functionality instead, if used with an older version. I do not know if this problem exists with newer versions of mfc42.dll...

Workarounds

What was not tested

Many of the menu options, I only used the save and load state functions.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Needs MFC42.dll

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