VBA vs mGBA

[UntoldLegend13]

I switched to MGBA because it has a vita port and I can get more cheats to work on it

 

[Nidstang]

I've always used mgba

 

[Clxmj]

I've swapped to mGBA recently because it gets recommended by a tonne by people, a good chunk of the fan hacks seem to prefer it and to be fair it's pretty decent and stable.. but my heart lies with Visual Boy Advance. I remember scouring the Skins forums, turning it into a awful looking Pokedex or a Majora's Mask skin. With working buttons and everything :D

 

[Deleted member 612095]

I use MyBoy gba emulator, I have no special reason for this I just get along well with.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

I had to switch to using VBA-M on RetroArch for playing Summon Night. Both cores are solid, but mGBA had annoying sound glitches and I found VBA-M had better sound options overall. What's also interesting is that we could mute specific sound channel, so if there's annoying high-pitched chiptune sounds in some game we could get rid of that.

 

[RetroMule]

I like mGBA, but will use VBA for some ROM hacks.

 

[aquova]

mGBA. I always found it confusing figuring out which was the "true" VBA, there always seemed to be a bunch of spin offs that did different things. mGBA seems to be leading GBA emulation these days.

 

[secreto7]

mGBA. I always found it confusing figuring out which was the "true" VBA, there always seemed to be a bunch of spin offs that did different things. mGBA seems to be leading GBA emulation these days.

The one true successor is VBA-M, it keeps being developed and is good as an alternative.

 

[HyperNelson01 HyperNelson01]

mGBA for its precision-compatibility ratio.

 

[Kwr]

mgba is the better emulator. better performance, more accurate, and I prefer the UI on PC. the only reason I ever use versions of VBA is that some romhacks simply won't run correctly on mgba.

how and why wont it work? just asking

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

VBA was a breakthrough and, for the longest time, a standard for the whole scene — I still use it out of respect, but it's probably been surpassed since.

 

[Moreno909]

VBA because mGBA stutters on my machine

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

MyBoy on Android

 

[fourmonty]

i have vba next, since the other cores had a sliver of the left side on the right, like a hair width, i dunno why.

anyway i have to use a separate nds color shader on top my usual filters since no innate color correction option.

 

[shaggi shaggi]

I using VBA-M. It's run well on my toaster-like PC. It have sound filtering and interpolation. Also it have many scaling methods (my favourite xBRZ) and nice LCD filter. What's more, most romhacks run well, while problems accur on other emulators.

 

[FateLanegod]

VBA because mGBA stutters on my machine

Switch from OpenGL to software rendering. The former could cause flickering sometimes.

 

[Moreno909]

Switch from OpenGL to software rendering. The former could cause flickering sometimes.

I tried a bunch of options but nothing did work. I use a very low end machine and VBA is more optimized for me

 

[Alkider]

mGBA is the go to now. the only reason I'd use VBA at this point would be for LAN play with other people, but that's buggy and I never actually got that to work. If mGBA can emulate the link cable, it would just be the definitive GBA emulator for me.

 

[FateLanegod]

I still think Mednafen’s GBA module is the best in terms of accuracy whilst compatibility with romhacks and performance, but unfortunately it doesn’t have link cable support at all. I mostly tried Pokemon games and their romhacks, although never had any issues with it.

mGBA is really the single choice for multiplayer. The link cable support in latest version is flawless, though it is GBA cable emulation only, not original GB one.