mgba-love

A shitty attempt at getting mGBA to run a game in Love2D through FFI.

Usage

First you need to compile mGBA. The master branch SHOULD be fine, but my tests were on commit 849f80e7a1959923c9d3d47191d0a162f0887bb9.

After you compile mGBA, drop it in this directory under native/<arch>/libmgba.<ext>, where <arch> is an arch supported by LuaJIT (so the value of ffi.arch). ffi.arch should evaluate to "x86", "x64", "arm", "ppc", "ppcspe", or "mips".

Then run it using Love2D (any version from 0.8.0 onward should be fine). It takes the game as an argument.

What works?

• Loading a game
• Video output

What doesn't work?

• Audio output
• Save files
• Save states
• You tell me! (or not, I don't really care)

IAQ

What the hell is an IAQ?

Infrequently Asked Questions. Next question.

Does this work on Android?

Probably.

Is this going to replace mGBA Android?

Fuck no, lmao.

"Why don't you provide X?"

Why don't you provide me money? Next question.

I played through the entirety of Space Memes 2: Electric Boogaloo, featuring Nintendo Switch from the Devil May Cry series!

Cool. That isn't a question.

I played through the entirety of Space Memes 2: Electric Boogaloo, featuring Nintendo Switch from the Devil May Cry series and saved but no save file was created!

Cool. That isn't a question.

I ran mgba-love and now my cat is gone and my arm feels numb.

Cool. Sounds like a personal problem.

Every time I try to run it I get an error saying "Unsupported arch: X"

That isn't a question, but this is:

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

How about compiling the native library, you nincompoop.

Every time I try to run it I get an error saying "Unsupported operating system: X"

That isn't a question... Create an issue I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

It crashes with "Segmentation Fault" or "Windows has found a problem"!

That isn't a question.

Have you tried compiling mGBA at the revision above?

If you want to support mGBA 2.0 (which hopefully has 3DS support... maybe Half Life 3 is out for the Nintendo Switch), you need to piece together another mgba.h file, which is trivial if your brain #includes a C preprocessor.

Are you bored?

Yes.