mGBA!

* A Special Surprise: Game Boy Support http://mgba.io/2016/02/13/special-surprise
Feb 13, 2016 For the past month, I’ve been working on a special surprise to be released with mGBA 0.5: Game Boy support. Although secondary to Game Boy Advance support, mGBA aims to have extremely accurate Game Boy support, eventually cycle accurate. Although still early in development, it already passes a high percentage of many GB accuracy test suites. However, it’s still quite rough around the edges and is not recommended for everyday usage: it’s quite slow due to the aim of cycle-accuracy, and still very buggy. Support will be available in upcoming nightlies #development-downloads, starting tonight. Please note that this involved a gigantic amount of refactoring, so if you find a bug or regr

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