32.b No$gba appears to slow down over time?
The most likely cause for this is your system overheating. What happens is that the system reaches a certain critical heat and then throttles itself to try and bring the temperatures back down to safe levels. This is why your PC suddenly run no$gba normally again if you leave it alone for say half an hour to an hour, as the system has then cooled back down to save levels and is not longer throtteling itself.
To see if this is the case download SIW (also displays various other information but you just want the sensor information so look for it in the tree under hardware and click on it) or hardware monitor linked to at the bottom of this question and observe your temperatures.
Usually this occurs with laptops where there is little space between components and little opportunity for cooling. I can only suggest getting a laptop cooler (basically a base with a fan or two in it which cool your laptop from the bottom).
In the case of a tower or dektop based PC I can only suggest adding in another fan if possible, or making sure that your PC stands in an open area rather than tucked away in a crowded area undearneath your desk. If it's overclocked then you may have to reduce the overclock.
Remember ultimately it's up to you to make sure that your PC is adequately cooled (no$gba stresses your system no more than a current PC game would so any overheating is not it's fault).
http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
http://www.gtopala.com/
33. I have a dual-core or quad-core PC though so why is no$gba running so slow? Will multi-core support be added?
No$gba does not have an multi-core optimizations. The only support those extra cores give you is being able to free up one core for no$gba entirely whilst the others handle background tasks and other programs that no$gba would usually have to share on the same core. That means that essentialy on a 1.5Ghz Dual core, no$gba is only running on a single 1.5Ghz core so it may run rather slow.
Until Martin obtains a dual-core or better PC no multi-core optimizations are planned and at the moment he has far from such a PC.
34. My game runs too fast, how do I slow it down?
On most systems games only just run full speed so there is no built-in frame limiting. The only ways of slowing a game down would be to run a zooming tool with a filter applied to the game and even then you may have to further bog your system down bu running other programs which can take away from no$gba's CPU use percentage.
You could try lower it's priority in your task manager as well, but I am not sure if it would give you the desired effect.
You could also try setting the 'Options->Emulation Setup->Emulation Speed, LCD Refresh' dropdown to one of the slower options and then possibly resetting the game for the change to take effect...although some have tried this and it's failed to make a difference.
35. My game renders incorrectly? Appears unplayable? Text gets stuck on the screen? Transparency Problems? Blank Text?
If toggling the renderer (Options->Emulation Setup->3D renderer dropdown) does not help then that's simply the state of DS emulation at this point. Your only options are to either try and play the game on another emulator or play the game on this rather nifty device Nintendo came up with which just so happens to play all DS games perfectly called the Nintedo DualScreen or Nintendo DS for short.
36. The colours are not bright enough/too bright?
Change between either Nintendo DS (in GBA mode) or VGA (poppy bright) in the Options->Emulation Setup-> GBA Mode dropdown. Nintendo DS (in GBA mode) tends to resemble the screen of an old DS phat whilst the VGA (poppy bright) setting tends to resemble a new DS Lite.
37. I can't setup my gamepad propperly?
I suggest you use Xpadder for all your gamepad needs. It's an awesome tool for anyone with a gamepad and can be used for much more than just no$gba. I recommend downloading the complete 27MB package.
The Official Xpadder Homepage
Update: Xpadder has since become payware. Of course you could give this great tool the support it richly deserves and buy a new version or I recommend downloading the the Big Files Pack linked to on the homepage and then googling for an older freeware version (the last one was 5.3).
Link to old 5.3 Freeware version (link may become obsolete) :
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Xpadder_program_21789.html
38. Will I add GBA Questions and Answers to this FAQ as well?
No. I don't have enough experience using no$gba as a GBA emulator and prefer using VBA-M or VBA-Link for all my GBA emulation needs.
39. Can you use this FAQ somewhere else?
Sure, knock yourself out.
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