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    • mediamogulM
      mediamogul Global Moderator @darknior
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      @darknior

      That would certainly be fantastic. What kills me is the feature is lying under the hood of VBA-M and even existed at one point in lr-vbam. However, it was intentionally removed by the libretro guys along the way, so it must have had some gremlins. As I remember, it could even do the borders.

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      • matchamanM
        matchaman
        last edited by matchaman

        Is there a way we could get access to the old lr-vbam core? Maybe an old RetroPie release and extract the binary? I get that it might have caused trouble with GBA emulation but I'd stick to mGBA for that.

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          altdottravelling
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          In case anyone finds this thread as I did (12th June 2018).

          I switched the emulator used by retropie (installed on a linux desktop machine) to lr-mgba and Donkey Kong worked perfectly as it does on the super gameboy. Background fame and colour palette :)

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          • HyruleslinkH
            Hyruleslink @altdottravelling
            last edited by

            @altdottravelling Question. How do you select lr-mba for Gameboy games? I only see that emulator as an option for Gameboy Advance games. I am assuming you are loading your GB roms into the GBA roms folder to accomplish this?

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            • mediamogulM
              mediamogul Global Moderator @Hyruleslink
              last edited by

              @hyruleslink

              If you had lr-mgba installed prior to the update, you may need to remove it and add it again using the RetroPie-Setup for the launch option to appear in the GameBoy Runcommand menu.

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              • CederickC
                Cederick
                last edited by

                So is it actually like using the Super Gameboy on SNES? Because I would love to play Pokémon Gold and Silver (Spaceworld) like it was presented back then with the borders and everything.

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                • mediamogulM
                  mediamogul Global Moderator @Cederick
                  last edited by

                  @Cederick said in Super Gameboy emulation?:

                  So is it actually like using the Super Gameboy on SNES?

                  Pretty much, yes. The only function that isn't emulated via lr-mgba are SNES-specific games from a Gameboy ROM. However, I believe the only example of this is the SNES 'Space Invaders' arcade port found on the Gameboy version.

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                  • CederickC
                    Cederick
                    last edited by

                    So I tried to put the sgba roms in gbc and it dosn't show up..

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                    • mediamogulM
                      mediamogul Global Moderator @Cederick
                      last edited by mediamogul

                      @Cederick

                      There aren't any unique Super Gameboy ROMs to speak of. They should all be standard .gb files. They'll work zipped as well.

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                      • CederickC
                        Cederick
                        last edited by

                        Pokémon Gold - Spaceworld 1997 Demo (NonDebug) (Header Fixed).sgb
                        Pokémon Silver - Spaceworld 1997 Demo (NonDebug) (Header Fixed).sgb

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                        • mediamogulM
                          mediamogul Global Moderator @Cederick
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                          @Cederick

                          Interesting. To my knowledge those should really have the .gbc extension.

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                          • CederickC
                            Cederick
                            last edited by

                            The Spaceworld demos where developed to run on super gameboy hardware since the gbc wasn't out around this time and they still wnated to show off what they be able to do with colors.

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                            • edmaul69E
                              edmaul69 @Cederick
                              last edited by

                              @Cederick if the emulator is capable of playing the .sgb files changing it to .gbc or .gb will work. And doing so will make it show up in the gamelist. All my gbc games have a .gb extention and work just fine.

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                              • mediamogulM
                                mediamogul Global Moderator @Cederick
                                last edited by mediamogul

                                @Cederick said in Super Gameboy emulation?:

                                The Spaceworld demos where developed to run on super gameboy hardware since the gbc wasn't out around this time

                                In that case, the .gb file extension would be more appropriate, although as @edmaul69 mentioned, either should work. Keep in mind that .gb and .gbc both denote a certain type of ROM. Seeing as how the Super Gameboy never had a unique ROM type, I imagine that the .sgb extension is there to tell compatible emulators to load the Super Gameboy BIOS automatically. With lr-mgba, loading a .gb file with the Super Gameboy BIOS manually enabled should produce the same results.

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