run atari games in gba?

[hal2k1]

is there an emulator for gba?

[Dones]

There was an emu but it was quickly pulled out. Problably it was picked up by a company <--- rumor I read.

[fox]

I think GBA is not powerful enough for the Atari800 emulator.

[Flojomojo]

This appears to be the closest thing, but it hasn't been updated in ages. I believe it would be tough to run a fullspeed VCS emulator on the GBA.

 

You already have Activision Anthology, right? Right???? That's about as good a portable Atari experience as you can get.

[fox]

The emulator is written in pure assembly language, the main emulator core is completely coded in Thumb and runs from ROM. The CPU emulation is a combination static recompiler & interpretive core -- for those pesky VCS games that run parts of their code out of RAM -- and is coded in ARM assembly running from the internal WRAM of the GBA.

 

Frame rate is a respectable 39fps, and a little more optimisation will get that to a nice 60fps. There is no sound emulation yet

 

800/XL/XE/5200 are much more complicated than 2600 and you can't reliably use

static recompiler since code is usually in RAM (unlike on 2600).

Coding full 800/XL/XE/5200 in Thumb asm is tedious and I doubt we can reach

100% real speed even at 10fps.