open_agb_firm beta_2024-12-24 by profi200
Runs GBA games natively on the GBA hardware inside the 3DS, straight from the SD card
Install on your 3DS
No Wi-Fi install for this file. Get it under Files and copy it to your 3DS as the release notes say.
Files
| File | Size | SHA-256 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| open_agb_firm_beta_20241224.7z | 139 KB | d8105ed0…0cd9 | Download |
Screenshots
About open_agb_firm
A bare metal payload, not a 3DS app. It uses the console's own GBA hardware and stands in for GBA Virtual Console injects: .gba files load from a file browser, saves are written to the SD card, and save types come from an included database. It doesn't have AGB_FIRM's bug with garbled lines at the bottom of the screen, and SD cluster size doesn't matter.
Put open_agb_firm.firm in /luma/payloads and copy the 3ds folder to the root of the SD card. With Luma3DS, hold Start while the console boots and pick it. With fastboot3DS, put the file anywhere and give it a slot.
- A, B, L, R, Start, Select: the GBA buttons
- Select+Y: screenshot to /3ds/open_agb_firm/screenshots
- X+Up/Down: brightness
- X+Left / X+Right: backlight off / on
- Hold X while a game starts: skip its patches
Settings are in /3ds/open_agb_firm/config.ini: scaling, gamma, colour profiles that mimic the GBA, GBA SP, DS and others, audio output and button mapping. The Circle Pad is no longer mapped to the D-Pad by default, but you can add it. It's still in beta. If the picture freezes, press HOME.
Put open_agb_firm.firm in /luma/payloads and copy the 3ds folder to the root of the SD card. With Luma3DS, hold Start while the console boots and pick it. With fastboot3DS, put the file anywhere and give it a slot.
- A, B, L, R, Start, Select: the GBA buttons
- Select+Y: screenshot to /3ds/open_agb_firm/screenshots
- X+Up/Down: brightness
- X+Left / X+Right: backlight off / on
- Hold X while a game starts: skip its patches
Settings are in /3ds/open_agb_firm/config.ini: scaling, gamma, colour profiles that mimic the GBA, GBA SP, DS and others, audio output and button mapping. The Circle Pad is no longer mapped to the D-Pad by default, but you can add it. It's still in beta. If the picture freezes, press HOME.
Release notes
beta_2024-12-24 · open_agb_firm beta build 2024-12-24 · Dec 24, 2024
What's Changed
- Added an option to use current rom directory for config and saves by @Exagone313 in https://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm/pull/209
- dd90d498c423cdfd527acc4cd5c80cb5bec5e937 Changed the config format to use strings for every setting where it makes sense. This is a breaking change!
- 4e4c2aa2b557709243d8461cde66b5ad514bc9a3 Updated all libretro based color profiles. Added GB micro, GBA SP (AGS-101), DS lite, Nintendo Switch Online and Visual Boy Advance/No$GBA full color profiles. Thanks to Pokefan531 for continuing work on the shaders!
This release changes the config file format in a way incompatible with previous releases. Delete the config file under /3ds/open_agb_firm/config.ini, boot oaf once to create a new config and reconfigure it. You can find all options in the README file as usual.
New Contributors
- @Exagone313 made their first contribution in https://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm/pull/209
Full Changelog: https://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm/compare/beta_2024-07-30...beta_2024-12-24