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    Question GameBoid on Android phone help

    Im pretty sure this isnt the correct place to post this but I dont know where to.

    I just downloaded the GameBoid program for my phone (a Galaxy S4) in the interest of pokemons, the problem is that whenever I try to run the downloaded rom (or emulator or whatever) it just says "Load BIOS failed. The valid BIOS file must be specified in the settings"

    I cant find the settings, and I dont know where to look for it.

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    extract a copy of the bios to your phone, roms folder should be ok or the root directory of GameBoid, might also need to be named bios.bin

    try to load the bios as if it was a rom.

    I don't remember off hand and don't emulate on a phone myself, but have done in the past, I think that is how I done it though.

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    I have a button on my phone that looks like three dots one above the others. When I launch Gameboid a screen comes up with a list of games and .zip files. I press my [three vertical dots] button and it brings up a section at the bottom that says

    Refresh | Settings | Help

    Not sure what you would press on your S4 to get there, but that is where you go for settings. And right at the top of the settings menu is the option to set your BIOS. If you need a BIOS here's a link to emuparadise. :p Go there on your phone, download it, extract, and then set Gameboid to its location.


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