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GBA Games dont work [SOLVED]

Post by Vineheart01 » Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:18 am

Running through my list of games making sure the roms i got work and i noticed literally NONE of my GBA games work. They all work on my main computer utilizing VisualBoyAdvance so i'm not sure if somehow every single one of my GBA roms just simply arent compadible for the Retropie engine or if theres some setting/code im missing i need for some reason. Far as i know they never worked, GBA games arent usually my go-to for oldschool gaming so i never even tried to play them before now.

Retropie is updated to most recent version and my raspberry is the PIZero w/o wifi.

Anybody got any ideas on how to fix this?
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Re: GBA Games dont work

Post by VeteranGamer » Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:36 am

Vineheart01 wrote:
Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:18 am
Running through my list of games making sure the roms i got work and i noticed literally NONE of my GBA games work. They all work on my main computer utilizing VisualBoyAdvance so i'm not sure if somehow every single one of my GBA roms just simply arent compadible for the Retropie engine or if theres some setting/code im missing i need for some reason. Far as i know they never worked, GBA games arent usually my go-to for oldschool gaming so i never even tried to play them before now.

Retropie is updated to most recent version and my raspberry is the PIZero w/o wifi.

Anybody got any ideas on how to fix this?
do you have a bios file for your GBA games....

any if so, have you put it in the bios folder (easily accessed via network on your PC/laptop)

if you dont have a bios file google it, its out there.....


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Re: GBA Games dont work

Post by YaYa » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:32 pm

Read this page, all is explained

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-se ... oy-Advance

The bios version is very important also (read above)
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Re: GBA Games dont work

Post by Vineheart01 » Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:10 pm

Had no idea there was an extra step for that one. Thanks!
I have a Pi3 on my TV and it played N64 games with nothing more than just flashing the retropie image and giving it some games so i didnt think anything remotely "high tech" needed additional work to function at all.

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Post by YaYa » Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:12 pm

Yes you need, same applies to NeoGeo. Maybe other systems too but i do not use them (classic 16bit don’t need a separate bios)
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Re: GBA Games dont work [SOLVED]

Post by Vineheart01 » Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:18 pm

Saw it mentioned Playstation1 as well but of course the piezero probably cant handle that anyway (neither do i have L2/R2 and analog sticks installed)

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Re: GBA Games dont work [SOLVED]

Post by YaYa » Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:25 pm

No, PiZero won’t play fine the PS1... i’ve never played pS1 and above in emulation... :lol:
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Re: GBA Games dont work

Post by salami738 » Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:35 am

VeteranGamer wrote:
Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:36 am
Vineheart01 wrote:
Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:18 am
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if you dont have a bios file google it, its out there.....
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I also had the same problem, GBA emulator won't start. An error message would be nice...
Thanks for the tip.

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Re: GBA Games dont work [SOLVED]

Post by wardrose21 » Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:48 am

Hi guys!
If you don't have a bios file, look it up on the internet...

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