VBA "speed up" possible?

Morgan19 · May 27th, 2002

I just switched over to VBA after using smygb for a few years and am pleased so far, but there's one thing I can't find: an option in VBA akin to smygb's Option - 0123 choices to make the game run faster. I tried frameskip and priority in VBA but neither accomplish the speed change. Is there anything to this effect?

(I decided to switch over in the first place because smygb has never played sound correctly for me and I got sick of playing games with the volume off. ^_^)

Thanks,
m19

Hydra · May 27th, 2002

Well it seems your wanting to play just GameBoy games perhaps try another one with better sound emulation because VBA will require more power to run nicely.

Morgan19 · May 27th, 2002

You misunderstood. My system is more than enough to handle the emulator, but it wasn't the speed of the program I wanted to change but how fast it emulates it onscreen. As such, I figured it out: disabling synchronization in VBA popped it up to 450% speed, which is exactly what I was going for and has nothing to do with whether it's a GBA, GBC, or GB emulator.

m19

Hydra · May 27th, 2002

Ok glad everything is working out.

May 27th, 2002

I think that you can press spacebar to speed things up.

Morgan19 · May 27th, 2002

Aha, so it does.

But only while you hold it down. I played around a bit and apparently whatever settings I've enabled set that to a constant, which is what I was going for.

m19

**Prafull** · May 28th, 2002

I too have been waiting for some speed gain on vba for years (umm may be thats too far,months you can say).
Really not into gba emulation yet due to that particular reason.

Morgan19 · May 29th, 2002

The tricks I used on VBA have gotten up to 497% (reading it right now), is that fast enough?

I compared the two and it seems pretty close to smygb's Option - 3 mode.

m19

Velocity 7 · June 9th, 2002

I'd like to see some faster, more efficient way of processing all the graphics, sprites, and stuff in VBA.

I wonder if Aldo's SpeedUp program will be of any use here...

May 27th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
Morgan19 Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 82	VBA "speed up" possible? I just switched over to VBA after using smygb for a few years and am pleased so far, but there's one thing I can't find: an option in VBA akin to smygb's Option - 0123 choices to make the game run faster. I tried frameskip and priority in VBA but neither accomplish the speed change. Is there anything to this effect? (I decided to switch over in the first place because smygb has never played sound correctly for me and I got sick of playing games with the volume off. ^_^) Thanks, m19

May 27th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
Hydra ???!!!???!!!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In your lunchbox. No don't open the lid! Ack the light it burns. Posts: 2,183	Well it seems your wanting to play just GameBoy games perhaps try another one with better sound emulation because VBA will require more power to run nicely. __________________ Mobo: Asus A8V Deluxe CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ RAM: 1024MB DDR400 Dual Channel Graphics: nVidia Geforce FX 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 HDD: 260GB OS: Windows XP SP2

May 27th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
Hydra ???!!!???!!!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In your lunchbox. No don't open the lid! Ack the light it burns. Posts: 2,183	Ok glad everything is working out. __________________ Mobo: Asus A8V Deluxe CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ RAM: 1024MB DDR400 Dual Channel Graphics: nVidia Geforce FX 6600 GT 128MB DDR3 HDD: 260GB OS: Windows XP SP2

May 28th, 2002	#7 (permalink)
Prafull Administrator, PCSX2 tester Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: India Posts: 637	I too have been waiting for some speed gain on vba for years (umm may be thats too far,months you can say). Really not into gba emulation yet due to that particular reason. __________________ E6750, Abit ip35E, XFX 8600GT 256 MB DDR3, Transcend 2GB DDR2 800 RAM

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May 27th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
Morgan19 Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 82	You misunderstood. My system is more than enough to handle the emulator, but it wasn't the speed of the program I wanted to change but how fast it emulates it onscreen. As such, I figured it out: disabling synchronization in VBA popped it up to 450% speed, which is exactly what I was going for and has nothing to do with whether it's a GBA, GBC, or GB emulator. m19

May 27th, 2002	#5 (permalink)
j1188 Guest Posts: n/a	I think that you can press spacebar to speed things up.

May 27th, 2002	#6 (permalink)
Morgan19 Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 82	Aha, so it does. But only while you hold it down. I played around a bit and apparently whatever settings I've enabled set that to a constant, which is what I was going for. m19

May 29th, 2002	#8 (permalink)
Morgan19 Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 82	The tricks I used on VBA have gotten up to 497% (reading it right now), is that fast enough? I compared the two and it seems pretty close to smygb's Option - 3 mode. m19

June 9th, 2002	#9 (permalink)
Velocity 7 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Your Computer Posts: 106	I'd like to see some faster, more efficient way of processing all the graphics, sprites, and stuff in VBA. I wonder if Aldo's SpeedUp program will be of any use here...