YABAUSE(1)

🌸 YABAUSE(1) — the manual page bestie 💖

okay so, welcome to yabause, aka Yet Another Buggy And Uncomplete Saturn Emulator 🎀 (yes that's literally its government name, the devs said it themselves, we love an honest queen). It's a Sega Saturn emulator, it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and I'm gonna walk you through every single flag like we're doing a group project. no skipping, no gatekeeping, periodt ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

yabause [ -afh ] [ -ns ] [ -b <BIOS> ] [ -c <CDROM> ] [ -i <ISO> ] [
--binary=<BINARY>[:<ADDRESS>] ]

she's a little long but she's worth it 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator, and the vibe check here is: she needs either a bios file, or a game, or a binary to run. That's the bare minimum, bestie, she's not running on vibes alone 😭

And those games? They can come from a real cd device 🌀 or from dump files. Your pick, main character. 💖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay here's the whole squad, one by one, no cap:

• -a
• --autostart — Automatically start emulation. she just GOES, no prompting, iconic behavior ⭐
• --autoframeskip=0|1 — Enable or disable auto frame skipping / limiting. 0 or 1, that's it, pick your fighter 🎮
• --autoload — Automatically start emulation and load a save state. two things at once, multitasking queen 💅
• -b
• --bios — Choose a bios file. you gotta point her at one, she's not psychic 🧚
• --binary — Use a binary file. here's the tea, fr fr: the content of the file gets loaded to 0x06004000 and execution starts from that address. you can hand her an alternative address to load and run from with the --binary=<BINARY>:<ADDRESS> syntax ✨ when you use this option, emulation is automatically started, so you shouldn't use it in conjunction with -a. (yes the original spells it "cunjunction", we're keeping the lore intact 🙈) this option is intended for homebrew developers wanting to test their programs in Yabause — it's giving dev-mode, iykyk 🔥
• -c
• --cdrom — Choose the cdrom device. physical media girlies rise 🌈
• -f
• --fullscreen — Start the emulator in fullscreen. big screen energy, no windowed nonsense 👑
• -h — Display a short help text. the classic cry for help, she'll explain herself in brief 📖
• -i
• --iso — Choose a dump file. the dump can be either in iso or bin/cue file format — she speaks both dialects, bilingual icon 💜
• -ns
• --nosound — Turns sound off. and here's the fun detail: this option actually sets the sound core to the dummy one. so it's not muting, it's swapping the whole brain for a fake one 💀 iconic tbh

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📁 FILES 📁

the cast of characters she works with:

• <BINARY> — An executable for the Saturn, usually with a BIN extension.
• <BIOS> — A Saturn ROM BIOS image.
• <CDROM> — A CDROM device file.
• <ISO> — A Saturn game dump.

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Copyright (c) 2002-2010 Yabause Team 🌸

Web: http://yabause.org ✨

Please don't ask for roms, bios files or any other copyrighted stuff. — bestie I am BEGGING, do not do this, it's not the move 🙈

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⚖️ COPYRIGHT ⚖️

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 🚨 (like, actually read that part, it matters, no cap)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA 📬

See the GNU General Public License details in COPYING. 📄

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💖✨

this was yabause-0.9.14, dated November 22, 2014, straight outta the General Commands Manual — mwah, go emulate something, ily 🎀💅🦋