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MGBA-QT (6) Games Manual MGBA-QT (6)

NAME

mgba-qt — Game Boy Advance emulator

SYNOPSIS

mgba-qt [ -123456fg ] [ -b biosfile ] [ -C option = value ] [ -l loglevel ] [ -p patchfile ] [ -s n ] [ -t statefile ] file

DESCRIPTION

mgba-qt is a Game Boy Advance emulator. The options are as follows:

-1

Scale the window 1×.

-2

Scale the window 2×.

-3

Scale the window 3×.

-4

Scale the window 4×.

-5

Scale the window 5×.

-6

Scale the window 6×.

-b biosfile , --bios biosfile

Specify a BIOS file to use during boot. If this flag is omitted, mgba-qt will use the BIOS specified in the configuration file, or a high-level emulated BIOS if none is specified.

-C option = value , --config option = value

Override the given config option with value .

-f

Start the emulator full-screen.

-g

Start a gdb (1) session. By default the session starts on port 2345.

-l loglevel

Log messages during emulation. loglevel is a bitmask defining which types of messages to log:

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1 – fatal errors

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2 – errors

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4 – warnings

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8 – informative messages

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16 – debugging messages

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32 – stub messages for unimplemented features

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64 – in-game errors

The default is to log warnings, errors, fatal errors, and status messages.

-p patchfile , --patch patchfile

Specify a patch file in BPS, IPS, or UPS format.

-s n , --frameskip n

Skip every n frames.

-t statefile , --savestate statefile

Load initial game state from statefile .

CONTROLS

The default controls are as follows:

A

x

B

z

L

a

R

s

Start

⟨ Enter ⟩

Select

⟨ Backspace ⟩

Load state

F1 – F9

Save state

⟨

Shift ⟩ - F1 – F9
Frame advance

⟨

Ctrl ⟩ - n

ENVIRONMENT
XDG_CONFIG_HOME

The location where mgba-qt will look for the configuration directory. If not set, ˜/.config is used.

FILES
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba/config.ini

Default mgba (6) configuration file.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba/qt.ini

Default mgba-qt configuration file.

portable.ini

If this file exists in the current directory, mgba-qt will read config.ini and qt.ini from the current directory instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba .

AUTHORS

Jeffrey Pfau < jeffrey@endrift.com >

HOMEPAGE
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mGBA homepage : https://mgba.io/

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Development repository : https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba

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Bug tracker : https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues

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Message board : https://forums.mgba.io/ Debian July 29, 2015 MGBA-QT (6)

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