MGBA-QT(6)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay bestie, say hi to mgba-qt — it's a Game Boy Advance emulator and it's literally the moment 💖

📜 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. no cap, that's the whole gig 🎮✨ The options are as follows, and we are listing every single one because we do not skip, periodt 💅

• -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 — tell it which BIOS file to use when it boots up 🥾. if you leave this flag out, mgba-qt will use the BIOS that's specified in the configuration file, or a high-level emulated BIOS if nothing at all is specified. so like, it's got a fallback, she's prepared 💁
• -C option=value, --config option=value — override the given config option with value. yes, straight-up override. main character energy 🎀
• -f — start the emulator full-screen. immersive. cinema. 🍿
• -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:
  • 1 – fatal errors
  • 2 – errors
  • 4 – warnings
  • 8 – informative messages
  • 16 – debugging messages
  • 32 – stub messages for unimplemented features
  • 64 – in-game errors

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

• -p patchfile, --patch patchfile — point it at a patch file, in BPS, IPS, or UPS format 🩹.
• -s n, --frameskip n — skip every n frames. going fast, feeling cute, might drop some frames idk 🏃♀️💨
• -t statefile, --savestate statefile — load the initial game state from statefile. instant nostalgia, no grinding 🫶

🎮 CONTROLS 🎮

the default controls are as follows, memorize them, they're your new muscle memory fr fr:

• 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 it's not set, ~/.config is used. so like, if you don't tell her where to look, she just assumes, and honestly? valid 🙈

📁 FILES 📁

• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba/config.ini — the default mgba(6) configuration file.
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba/qt.ini — the 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. portable era 🧳✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Jeffrey Pfau <jeffrey@endrift.com> — the icon, the legend, the blueprint 💜

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

• mGBA homepage: https://mgba.io/
• Development repository: https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba
• Bug tracker: https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/issues
• Message board: https://forums.mgba.io/

and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially fluent 💅 this one shipped from Debian, dated July 29, 2015, and it lives under the name MGBA-QT(6) in the manual — go forth and emulate, you absolute icon 🎀🦋✨