Manual

Installation

There is only one file of importance, the binary RbVBA. You can place this anywhere but I will suggest /home/user/bin/. RbVBA will create two files in your home directory: .RbVBArc and .RbVBAXPlayed. It relies on the fact that you have VisualBoyAdvance and its configuration file installed somewhere, but where exactly is not important as it is configurable.

If you do not yet have VisualBoyAdvance installed, download it and extract it to somewhere like /home/user/bin/. The best place to store VisualBoyAdvance.cfg is with the VisualBoyAdvance binary.

Execute RbVBA. Click the RbVBArc tab to locate VisualBoyAdvance and VisualBoyAdvance.cfg. Then locate one ROM folder and press Save. If you already have VisualBoyAdvance and VisualBoyAdvance.cfg installed and setup then no further changes are necessary, otherwise click the VBA cfg tab and point to three folders for saveDir (save states), captureDir (screenshots) and batteryDir (game specific settings). I recommend using these folders although you can use whatever you like:-

saveDir /home/user/.VisualBoyAdvance/saves/
captureDir /home/user/.VisualBoyAdvance/snaps/
batteryDir /home/user/.VisualBoyAdvance/battery/

Click Save and configuration is complete.

VisualBoyAdvance Screenshots and Covers

When using VisualBoyAdvance, you can take screenshots via F12. These by default will be png and saved in captureDir, but jpg and bmp are also supported. When playing a game, the first screenshot you take will appear in the Title tab, the second in the Snap tab. For Covers (box art) you will need to supply these yourself (hint: Amazon). They can be jpg, png or bmp, are 300x300 pixels and stored in one of four folders. These folders need to be located and pointed to in the RbVBArc tab.

VisualBoyAdvance README

If you want to view the README file that comes with VisualBoyAdvance you must locate it and point to it in the RbVBArc tab. Then you can quickly navigate to key and command line settings via the links on the VBA README tab.

QJoyPad

You can specify QJoyPad layouts for use within RbVBA or VisualBoyAdvance. The layouts are not supplied but you can specify any existing layouts created with QJoyPad.