VisualBoyAdvance-M

As some of you may remember, I have been working on a proper OS X port of VBA-M in my spare time. Because VBA-M is prerelease software, I haven't been working with any sense of urgency, so the progress has been slow.

 

Today I saw that the Mother 3 Fan Translation is going to release this week, and tomato announced that Mac users may have problems saving their game, and recommends that they use an older version of VBA.

 

Now, I'm assuming that VBA-M will run the patch, since there was some discussion of UPS patch support being added for this translation patch. If so, then an OS X port of VBA-M should eliminate the saving problem for OS X users.

 

If I can get my port finished soon, would it be alright if I provide a build for OS X users who want to play the Mother 3 translation? I understand that VBA-M is prerelease software. In no way would I advertise it as released, and would include notices that it was prerelease software.

 

I wanted to get permission first because I don't want to go against the wishes of any of the developers here, who have spent far more time developing VBA-M then I have spent porting it.

Sure, why not. [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png[/img]/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Just make sure your port's code is clean. We don't a repeat to happen of what happened last time with a official Mac port.

if its all working sweet you should consider doing a .patch so its in the svn. im sure they would love to get a working mac frontend

Well, it depends on your definition of "all working." I should be able to get the core functionality complete, but I won't be able to finish everything that I wanted before the patch comes out. It will probably be bare bones: You'll be able to load the game, play it, and take screenshots. I'll probably also have joystick and graphics filter support finished.

Yeah, so after working on it for most of today, it's just not going to be ready in time. I've spent too much time working on features and not enough working on the core.

 

So tomorrow I'm going to throw together a GUI launcher for the command-line program. I won't be satisfied with it, but it will work for Mother 3.

 

My long term goal for a full GUI frontend remains unchanged, however.

Sounds cool. Feel free to do whatever you like. We definately like contributers like you, Tantric, and others, wanting to help out in one way or another....[img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png[/img]/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Alright it's finished. I didn't have a lot of time to devote today due to some unforeseen work that was dropped on my lap. I have two questions though.

 

Can anyone recommend some Web space that is friendly to emulator hosting? My host doesn't want me uploading any emulators.

 

Does anyone here have a connection to tomato or anyone on the fan translation team? Their last post said that Mac users would need an older version of VisualBoyAdvance, and I think it would be great if this could get posted on the fan translation site. Also, it might be good to test this version with the patch.

I got some spare bandwidth if you want me to upload some compiles.

 

OR you can get a FTP account here on the VBA-M NGemu site. Squall should be able to set it up, or I can. [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png[/img]/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Well, part of it is that I don't want to bandwidthinate the server I put it on. If it's linked to from the fan translation site, it might get pretty popular.

 

If either of the sites can handle it (It's 2.6 MB), then I'd be happy to upload it to either/both.

A central location for retrieval would benefit everyone interested in GBA emulation on MacOSX.

Bandwidth is not a problem with the NGemu servers.