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@CBOC-Vita CBOC-Vita released this 24 Oct 17:47
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The first release. Game Boy Advance, Game Boy and Game Boy Color, built as a
native PS Vita app from GBAdhoc's emulator.

Your library

  • A home screen like a console's own: big tiles, the game's picture behind
    them, and touch or buttons to move around.
  • Box art and title screens download by themselves on Wi-Fi, matched by
    name, cartridge code or checksum. Your own pictures always win.
  • A few lines about each of 1,300 games, from Wikipedia, built in.
  • Previews: rest on a game and the last ten seconds you played move behind it.
  • Continue where you left off. Leaving a game keeps the moment you left it,
    refreshed every two minutes and right after the game saves, so even a Vita
    closed from LiveArea continues. Cross continues; Up starts from your battery
    save instead.
  • Recent tab and play time, with sorting by name, last played or most played.
  • Starred and Find: Find matches every word in any order and ignores accents
    and punctuation ("zelda minish" finds The Minish Cap).
  • Your existing folders: games in ux0:ROMS/ or RetroFlow's folders are found
    without moving them.

The picture

  • Original: crisp, even pixels at any size, including the full height.
  • xBRZ and Scale3x smoothing on the Vita's spare cores.
  • Wide view: more of the game instead of black bars, made for Pokémon
    Emerald and its siblings, with options for 3D racing tracks.
  • Real handheld colours, motion blend, LCD grid and scanlines, five sizes.
  • Super Game Boy borders, kept for next time.
  • A look for every game: Settings > This game > Display settings.

Speed

  • A steady 60 frames a second, with the picture drawn on a second core.
  • Keep full speed: short hiccups are caught up without a gap in the sound.
  • Low lag: up to a frame less between a press and the picture.
  • Games start the moment you pick them.
  • Rewind (60 seconds), fast forward, five save-state slots, turbo buttons and
    screenshots.

Play together

  • GBA Link Cable and Wireless Adapter games between two Vitas, over Wi-Fi,
    the internet or ad hoc.
  • Game Boy and Game Boy Color links, even between different cartridges.
  • Two players on one Vita, side by side.
  • Share saves and states, and receive Mystery Gift cards from a phone.

More to play

  • RetroAchievements. Sign in from Settings; your password is sent once and
    never stored. Unlocks are sent again later if you were offline. Hardcore mode
    turns off state loading, rewind and cheats.
  • Tilt, turn and sunlight cartridges: WarioWare: Twisted! (gyro), Yoshi
    Topsy-Turvy and Koro Koro Puzzle (tilt), Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (GBC tilt) and
    Boktai 1–3 (sunlight). Tilt the Vita or use the right stick.
  • ROM hacks and translations: Game.ips, Game.bps or Game.ups next to
    Game.gba is applied as the game starts; a patch made for another version of
    the game is refused.
  • Cheats for about 2,190 games, plus your own codes.
  • An open GBA BIOS built in.

Safe saves

  • Game Boy and Game Boy Color saves reach the memory card within about two
    seconds, and a save that can't be written (a full card) tells you so.
  • Favourites, two-player saves and shared saves are written so that an
    interrupted write can't lose them.

Under the hood

  • gpSP with the latest upstream fixes, plus VitAdhoc's own: games whose start-up
    code froze on a white screen now boot, and many fixes from independent code
    reviews, all covered by a large automated test suite. Engineering details are
    in Technical notes.

Downloads: VitAdhoc.vpk is the app; VitAdhoc-install.zip adds the guides, checksums and complete source. New to Vita homebrew? Start with the install guide.

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