Virtual Console GBA Bug

[sacred flame]

I was trying to play Sonic Battle on the Virtual Console for GBA but every time I boot the game it displays the game like this

[void pine]

What exactly is wrong with it

[sacred flame]

A bit of the top screen is in the bottom and this only happens to some or all of my gba games

[void pine]

I believe this can just happen sometimes with virtual console, but I cant be 100% sure

What I can suggest is to use open agb firm instead which should run closer to native

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Open_agb_firm_3DS

[sacred flame]

Oh cool how do I use it?

Or access it

[cunning bay]

copy the open agb firm file to your sd>luma>payloads folder, then hold start while powering on the console

pick open agb firm, it will open a barebones file browser where you can navigate to your rom file

[sacred flame]

Oh then I just install it

Unless it’s preinstalled?

[cunning bay]

https://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm

get the .7z file from the releases page

the setup instructions are on the main page

[sacred flame]

Hold on but the files I got are using the GBA VC are you saying this is just a different GBA emulator?

They are .cia

[cunning bay]

the 3ds can run gba games natively, it's not emulating them

[sacred flame]

Oh so it’s just a patch

Right?

[cunning bay]

open agb firm eliminates the need to create rom injects, you can just dump your roms on your sd card and play em instead of having to create vc injects (cia)

there's a pinned post in #modding that compares all the different methods to play gba games on 3ds and their pros and cons, you should have a read

[sacred flame]

Uh ok?

[cunning bay]

#modding message

[chrome hawk]

This error happens on large SD cards, known bug

[chrome hawk]

You should have originally had different files from dumping your gba carts and made those cias yourself

[sacred flame]

I can make the Cias?

[chrome hawk]

That's piracy, you dump your own carts and make the yourself

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