[APP] MoonGBA - the fastest gba emulator

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MoonGBA - probably the fastest Game Boy Advance emulator for Windows Mobile platform made by Xiangpeng Chen. Freeware. I can't believe that there is no topic about this great app. Without sound enabled it works almost perfectly on my BenQ E72 with 230MHz omap processor and ~20MB of RAM. On my Blue Angel - what can I say - amazing! Unfortunately it doesn't work on my HTC Kaiser. But I'm sure it is the one of uncommon cases.



Advantages:

• really fast rom emulation
• runs on slower PDAs/smartphones
• portrait, landscape left/right + fullscreen, fit to screen, vga screen view modes + "antialiasing"
• frameskip + frame speed settings
• *.sav files support
• touch controlled pad (activated in settings)

Disadvantages:

• only 3 save/load slots
• not quite good sound emulation comparing to other emulators
• noticed that it doesnt work on HTC Kaiser

Requirements:

• Windows Mobile 5.0 >= based device
• ~200MHz processor for comfortable playing without sound (depends on processor model)
• about 15MB RAM for loading 4/8MB roms; 20+ for loading 16MB roms

Download:

• english translated 2.4.0 version - HERE (just run .exe file on your PPC/SM, config files will be created in the same directory)
• author's website with newest chinese versions - HERE (up to 2.4.2)

Regards...

Not working :-/

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I tried running Pokemon Sapphire (.gba), Pokemon Yellow (.gbc), and Pokemon Blue (.gb). The gba file was the only one which didn't close the program. None of them were able to run though, I only only saw a white box when loading the gba file.

My device is the ATT Tilt2 (HTC Rhodium), WVGA, 528 MHZ. Free ram when loading the 16 MB rom, about 30-40 MB

nice!

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nice app.. a way faster than pocketgba and morphgear.. it also saves in .sav format so you can use your save files from desktop gba emulators.. it also supports clock base events which pocketgba dont.. but it would be better if we can edit the virtual pads just like in morphgear because its own virtual pads are annoying cause it touches the screen..

Nice share, thanks!

@zyphuris55, MoonGBA is an Game Boy Advance emulator so it's able to open only *.gba roms. Shame that it doesn't work on Rhodium I see there is same problem as with Kaiser - white box after rom loading. I can suggest you to try the newest 2.4.2 version from developer's website. I didn't try and I don't know if it will work on Kaiser or Rhodium. Unfortunately 2.4.0 is the only one which is english translated.

@xxviii, yep, some time ago I tried to play Pokemon ( ) on PocketGBA but there were problems with ingame time settings. With MoonGBA there are no such problems. And about touch controlled pad question - Xiangpeng is working on it and there are fixes and improvements in newer versions, unfortunately in chinese language.

In general, it has some defects but MoonGBA is a great GBA emulator which works surprisingly fast, especially that its freeware and practically it isn't popular.

works great! just the sound could be improved. i´ll test the chinese 2.4.2 version...

Could be great

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based on a very vey quick test, this is good.

Very fast on HD2, and the built in control pad is good. I'm just checking how LMT controller works wth it. GBA was one of the things i was booting android off SD for, so I'm really pleased to see this, thanks for starting this thread

with me it works on the rhodium with pokemon, but it isnt stable sometimes some random crashes...

thank you very much, it is the first GBA emulator that works perfectly on my touch pro. No HW button delay, speed is perfect everything is great

Great app,I'm searching for it.It works fine on my xperia x1.This is the first emulator for wm with support for 32mb rom,but the speed is low with full screen enabled.The virtual pad is very good.Great app