mgba-qt(6)

Usage

mgba-qt [-123456fg] [-b biosfile] [-C option=value] [-l loglevel] [-p patchfile] [-s n] [-t statefile] file

mgba-qt is a Game Boy Advance emulator. The options are as follows:

-1: Scale the window 1×.
-2: Scale the window 2×.
-3: Scale the window 3×.
-4: Scale the window 4×.
-5: Scale the window 5×.
-6: Scale the window 6×.
-b biosfile, --bios biosfile: Specify a BIOS file to use during boot. If this flag is omitted, mgba-qt will use the BIOS specified in the configuration file, or a high‐level emulated BIOS if none is specified.
-C option=value, --config option=value: Override the given config option with value.
-f: Start the emulator full‐screen.
-g: Start a gdb(1) session. By default the session starts on port 2345.
-l loglevel: Log messages during emulation. loglevel is a bitmask defining which types of messages to log:

1 – fatal errors

2 – errors

4 – warnings

8 – informative messages

16 – debugging messages

32 – stub messages for unimplemented features

64 – in‐game errors

The default is to log warnings, errors, fatal errors, and status messages.
-p patchfile, --patch patchfile: Specify a patch file in BPS, IPS, or UPS format.
-s n, --frameskip n: Skip every n frames.
-t statefile, --savestate statefile: Load initial game state from statefile.

The default controls are as follows:

XDG_CONFIG_HOME: The location where mgba-qt will look for the configuration directory. If not set, ~/.config is used.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba/config.ini: Default mgba(6) configuration file.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba/qt.ini: Default mgba-qt configuration file.
portable.ini: If this file exists in the current directory, mgba-qt will read config.ini and qt.ini from the current directory instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mgba.

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.

--config since Debian 10 (Buster); --savestate since Debian 10 (Buster); -C since Debian 10 (Buster); -t since Debian 10 (Buster).