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Palm Pre gets GameBoy Advance emulator, Mario Kart beckons you

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The Palm Pre is capable of playing 3D FPS classics like Doom and Quake, but now it’s time to go retro with VisualBoyAdvance for WebOS – a GameBoy Advance emulator.



The VisualBoyAdvance emulator is available for many platforms and now it has arrived at WebOS and the Palm Pre. It’s a work in progress, but it will handle all the classic GameBoy and GameBoy Color games without a hitch.

Playing GameBoy Advance games is hit or miss – here’s a table that lists the game speed for a lot of games. Speeds range from the acceptable 80-100% to about 50%, which makes the game unplayable, but disabling the sound gives the emulator a bit of a speed boost. However I expect that on the wimpier Palm Pixi GameBoy Advance games will be unplayable.

Some of the games work quiet well however, like Mario Cart:

The latest version 1.1.1 has skin support and touchscreen controls, auto-save, loading ROMs from a ZIP file, custom game controls and other features.

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Some of the skins for the Visual Boy Advance

You can download the VisualBoyAdvance for WebOS from Preware and for ROMs you can head to http://www.pdroms.org and http://www.gameboy-advance-roms.info/ for free and legal ROMs. For the other kind, you know what to do.

Anyway, the guys from the Big Bang Theory can now include a Palm Pre to game night.

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