gba-mu

gba-mu is a WIP Game Boy Advance emulator. It is written in C++ with an object-oriented design. There's still a lot of work to be done on it

Upcoming Features and TODOs:

• Miscellaneous bugs
• All PPU modes and features
• Sound controller
• Optimizations
• Instruction cycle counting / Gamepak prefetch emulation

Building

• Dependencies: cmake, c++17, sfml
• cd build ./build.sh
• Has only been tested on MacOS, but feel free to try it on Linux and Windows and provide feedback

Running

• To run tests: cd build ./build.sh ctest
• To run a ROM: cd build ./gba <path_to_gba_rom>

Controls

• d-pad = WASD
• A = k
• B = m
• start = spacebar
• select = rshift
• debug mode = z
• exit debug mode = x

Resources

Here are some resources I have been using to aid in developing this emulator

• GBATek Documentation is an authoritative reference for GBA's hardware
• TONC GBA Programming guide is a great resouce that provides a lot of demo ROMs, indispensible for testing various components.
• ARM7TDMI Data Sheet: ftp://ftp.dca.fee.unicamp.br/pub/docs/ea871/ARM/ARM7TDMIDataSheet.pdf CPU reference sheet
• Emudev Discord Server a welcoming and helpful EmuDev community