visualboyadvance-m(6)

📦 version 2.2.2, in fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

✨ visualboyadvance-m ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the visualboyadvance-m(6) page — it lives in the Games Manual section, and it's literally the whole vibe guide for this emulator. let's get into it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

VisualBoyAdvance-M — a wxWidgets GUI for a high-compatibility Gameboy Advance emulator, and the way it works is by integrating the best features from various Visual Boy Advance builds. she's a collab, she's a group project that actually ate. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

visualboyadvance-m [options]

that's it. that's the whole thing. just you, the binary, and some options if you're feeling spicy. 🎀

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

VisualBoyAdvance-M is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator with high compatibility with commercial games. no cap.

she emulates the Nintendo Game Boy Advance hand held console, plus the original Game Boy hand held systems and its Super and Color variants. so like, the whole family tree got invited to the party. 👑

VBA-M is a continued development of the now inactive VisualBoy Advance project, with many improvements from various builds of VBA. the original retired, the successor said "not me being the main character" and carried on. iconic behaviour, honestly.

this application is the wxWidgets GUI version of VisualBoyAdvance-M. yes, the GUI one specifically. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — show the help message. when in doubt, ask for help, bestie 🫶
  • --verbose — generate verbose log messages. she's gonna talk. a lot. 💬
  • --save-xrc=<str> — save built-in XRC file and exit. 💾
  • --save-over=<str> — save built-in vba-over.ini and exit. 🍓
  • --print-cfg-path — print configuration path and exit. 📍
  • -f, --fullscreen — start in full-screen mode. main character energy, no browser chrome, just vibes 🌈
  • -s, --delete-shared-state — delete shared link state first, if it exists. lowkey destructive so read that twice 🫣
  • -o, --list-options — list all settable options and exit. window shopping but for flags 🛍️
⚠️ heads up: a bunch of these end with "and exit" — like --save-xrc, --save-over, --print-cfg-path, and --list-options. they do their lil thing and then leave. no emulator, just business. 💀

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

this manual page was written by Jeremy Newton (Mystro256). and the man page itself is licensed as GPLv2 or later. respect the license, bestie, fr fr. 📜

okay that's the page!! and for the cute sign-off: this was pulled from the visualboyadvance-m(6) man page, dated December 10, 2016, and it's sitting pretty in the Games Manual section. go emulate something iconic, you absolute legend. 💖🦋✨

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