NAME¶
mgba-qt —
Game Boy Advance emulator
SYNOPSIS¶
mgba-qt |
[-123456fg] [-b
biosfile] [-l
loglevel] [-p
patchfile] [-s
n] 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.
-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:
- 1 – fatal errors
- 2 – errors
- 4 – warnings
- 8 – informative messages
- 16 – debugging messages
- 32 – stub messages for unimplemented features
- 256 – in‐game errors
- 512 – software interrupts
- 1024 – emulator status messages
- 2048 – serial I/O messages
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.
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.
