Editing VisualBoyAdvance (section)

== History ==
The VisualBoyAdvance project was started by a developer under the [[User (computing)|online alias]] "Forgotten".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.ngemu.com/visualboy-advance-discussion/|title=Visual Boy Advance|publisher=NGEmu|access-date=2009-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217071710/http://forums.ngemu.com/visualboy-advance-discussion/|archive-date=2009-12-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=May 2020}} When this person left the development of the emulator, the project was handed over to a team named "VBA Team", led by Forgotten's brother. Development on the original VisualBoyAdvance stopped in 2004 with version 1.8.0 beta 3, and a number of [[Fork (software development)|forked]] versions were made by various developers in the years since then, such as VisualBoyAdvance-M.<ref name="DT" />

VBA was a crucial component of [[Twitch Plays Pokémon]], a social experiment in which thousands of button inputs collected from the viewership of the streaming website [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] were fed into an emulated version of ''[[Pokémon Red]]''.<ref name="CNET">{{Cite web |last=Statt |first=Nick |date=2014-03-01 |title=Twitch Plays Pokemon conquers Elite Four, beating game after 390 hours |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301190208/http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619740-93/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/ |archive-date=2014-03-01 |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=CNET |publisher=CBS Interactive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McWhertor |first=Michael |date=2014-02-14 |title=How Twitch is crowd-sourcing an amazing Pokémon multiplayer game |url=https://www.polygon.com/2014/2/14/5411790/twitch-plays-pokemon-creator-interview-twitchplayspokemon |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Polygon}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=St. Clair |first=Michael |date=December 2015 |title=Twitch Plays Pokemon, MarI/O, Dreeps |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1774950911 |journal=Theatre Journal |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=702–706 |doi=10.1353/tj.2015.0112 |s2cid=194408732 |id={{ProQuest|1774950911}} |via=ProQuest|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Viewers typed commands into the chat function, which was then fed into the VBA emulator via an [[IRC bot]].<ref name="CNET"/> They succeeded after 16 days of continuous play, with a peak concurrent viewership of 121,000 and over 1.1 million unique participants.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/03/twitch-prevails-at-pokemon/ | title = Victory! The Thundershock Heard Around the World | author = Chase | publisher = [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] | date = 1 March 2014 | access-date = 1 March 2014 | archive-date = 5 March 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140305005717/http://blog.twitch.tv/2014/03/twitch-prevails-at-pokemon/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>