Gameboy Advance Multiplay?

[ChippyD]

Does anyone know if there are any GBA emulators out there that allow internet connecting?

Me and my friends want to trade pokemon gained on our roms.

[Dr Mario]

VBAlink allows for this, although I can't vouch for it's performance since I barely use it.

[Vesper]

Its actually quite slow unless you're running off LAN.

[Dr Mario]

Its actually quite slow unless you're running off LAN.

I've never used it except over LAN, so I wouldn't know anything about that. But I doubt it's speed matters all that much for trading pokemon.

[SegNin]

Get VBAlink from here:
http://vbalink.wz.cz/

How to use the singlecomp version?

* Download VBALink (source or binaries)
* Unzip it to a folder like c:\games\vbalink
* Start two (three, four) VisualBoys at once
* In Options/Emulator, uncheck Pause when inactive window
* You don't have to turn off the sound like in tgb - only the active VBA produces sound
* Setup all the things, like controls, save paths & so on
* If you want to use save files, you must rename them - the save file extension for VBA #1 is .sa1 (e.g. Pokemon Ruby.sa1), for #2 .sa2 etc. (the same is true for savestates - #1 has .sg1 etc.) - another solution is to import them, that works too.
* Enjoy!

How to use the LAN version?

* Download VBALink (source or binaries)
* Unzip it to a folder like c:\games\vbalink
* Setup all the things, like controls, save paths & so on
* Each player opens VBALink and goes to Options/Link/Settings.
* Check "Network"
* If you want better speed at the cost of slightly less stability, select 'Faster' on the slidebar (recommended for wireless Pokemon)
* One of you must select Server and click Start
* The others choose "Client", enter the IP address or name of the server and click Connect
* When all players are connected, a message box with the text "Connected" will appear (at least it should :-).
* Load the game and play!
* When someone closes the emulator, the others will become disconnected.

There are 2 other emulators that can be linked together on a single computer:

RascalBoy Advance
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/linoma/rascalboy.html
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/linoma/multi.html

No$GBA
http://nocash.emubase.de/gba.htm

[Haldrie]

Oh believe me speed matters. Once the link is made it chews a lot of processor power and if you don't have a fast enough processor then you suffer from some major fps lose.

Oh and for the LAN connection. When each person connects the Server computer will prompt that a # of players has connected and will ask if you want to wait for more players. Not sure what happens when 4 players join since I only make a connection between 2 computers. It worked like a charm.

Note that VBAlink will only link between GBA games and will not work for GB and GBC games.