But before you can go ahead and play any of these game ROMs you will also need to get a compatible GBA emulator downloaded for your device to enable you play any of the GBA game ROMs.Ī GBA emulator is simply is a software that can mimic play of any file format (ROMs, ISOs, BIOs) on your device. This means that anyone can easily and conveniently get the GBA game ROMs and likewise play them without owning the console. With the phasing out of the GBA console this feature has given way to ROM technology, where by great games on the cartridge file format (which is pretty much archaic), can now be saved in ROM (Read Only Memory) file formats by either ripping from the original game cartridge or downloading them copy of your games ripped from the original game source or saved and played on your PC, Tablet or Smartphone.
One of the coolest features of the GBA was its multi-boot mode, which allowed the console to download a program from its link port this was created mainly to allow users to play multiplayer games with friends even if they didn’t have the game cartridge. The console was powered by 2 AA size batteries that could last for up to about 15hours, ARM7-based 32-bit CPU on the top of the Z80-based 8-bit CPU and games were stored in cartridge format sand slotted into the console to enable you play them. When u open the rom, the game will load the save after the game opening.The Nintendo Game Boy Advance popularly abbreviated as GBA is a 32-bit sixth generation handheld video game console that gained popularity from early 2000s across the globe. SAV working in the VBA, we can do whatever we want, for example, use cable link (vba-link)Īfter do "whatever we want", we can save the game in the VBA (using the game save, no savestates), and this will generate a new file of extension. So is recommended have a backup of your progress using the savestates (.ST0. If u don't close the emulator, and try to open the save, the game save will be deleted (i don't know why.). IMPORTANT: We must do all steps in order, after save the game, we must close the dingoo emulator. After the game opening the game will load our save (it will be say there is an error, and will load the "last saved game", but is ok, its works) and rdy! we have our dingoo save in VBA working. This will reset the VBA and the game will start again. Open the rom, and go to File-> Import -> Battery File, select the. Run VBA, go to Options -> Emulator -> Save Type and select "SRAM" sav generated by the dingoo emulator and the patched rom into the VBA folder.
Now we can play in our dingoo the patched rom, and use the game save option, that will generate a new. Savegames generated before apply SRAM patch, will not work. st1, etc) or battery save (.sav) in your dingoo, u will have to delete them all. IMPORTANT: If already have a savestate (.st0. Now we can use the battery saves in the game (.sav files). gba file, and rename the output file without the string "output-" If we don't chaged the output directory, we will have a new file named "output-YOUR ROM NAME.gba", in my case "output-Pokemon - Rojo Fuego.gba".
This is not necesary for all gamesĭownload - Unzip - Run gbata.exe and apply SRAM Patch First of all, pokemon games use 128k saves (no supported by the dingoo gba emulator) so we need to patch the rom with GBA Tool Advance ( ).
In this tutorial i will not explain how to use cable link (vba-link in this case), you will find a lot of tutorials in internet about that.
Some GBA games, require cable-link for finish them (e.g Pokemon games), and dingoo GBA Emulator of Native OS don't have cable-link option, so we need to open or savegames in some PC emulator with cable-link emulator like VisualBoy Advance (VBA). I search in google, and all dingoo related sites, and dind't found a solution for this, so i make my own Well.after a lot of try, i finally managed how to open the.