VisualBoyAdvance

What works

Everything except what is noted in the "What does not work" section works flawlessly.

What does not

The "DirectDraw" render method does not work and displays a black screen. However, this is a non-issue since all of the other available render methods work flawlessly.

When adjusting the video size from the Options -> Video menu, the height of the window is never correct, making the aspect ratio grossly out of proportion.

Trying to record AVI video (Tools -> Record) always produces a corrupt video file.

You must copy MFC42.DLL and MFC42U.DLL from an existing Windows installation to get this program to work. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

I tested this using a dumped rom of Mario Kart: Super Circuit. I did not test GB or GBC games under WINE.

I did not test cheat codes. 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Requires mfc42.dll and mfc42u.dll, which are not included with Wine. They can be copied from an existing Windows installation.

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