Firestorm gbaZ Gameboy Emulator Available
Crimson Fire have released a new Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulator for the Tapwave Zodiac.
The company was initially challenged with legal threats from Nintendo prior to release, which pushed back the release date. Crimson Fire decided they would challenge Nintendo and release the project as a free, open source application. The groups has done a 180 of sorts, and has now released the emulator as a commercial product.
The Firestorm gbaZ emulator plays original Gameboy and Gameboy color title. While it was originally planned to include emulation of the Gameboy Advance system, however that portion was not released due to a last minute technical bug issue. gbaZ supports full screen graphics and has limited sound support.
The program only works with the Tapwave Zodiac handheld, a general release Palm OS 5 version is being planned. It costs $19.99 USD, but is available with a $2 discount for the next few days. At this time there is no demo version.
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RE: So when will the GBA version be released? :(
Now, once they release the promised GBA support, my tune'll change ;)
RE: So when will the GBA version be released? :(
JLM.
RE: So when will the GBA version be released? :(
In fairness, their "decision" to release it as open source was made after the threats from Nintendo and they saw that as one means of getting around the lawsuit. So, they thought they would release it as open source and just ask for donations in helping to fight Nintendo. Then, Nintendo sent a follow-up letter informing them that releasing it for free would still lead to lawsuits. I honestly expected the whole project to die and am surprised that they're moving forward in releasing it.
I do agree, though, that GBA emulation is what everyone cared about. So if that never comes (or the performance is awful), this whole story will turn out to be much hype about nothing.
Scott
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Well this sucks..
Oh well, Now I can atleast play dw3 on my z..
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So when will the GBA version be released? :(
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