Editing VisualBoyAdvance (section)

== VisualBoyAdvance-M ==
'''VisualBoyAdvance-M''', or simply '''VBA-M''', is an improved [[Fork (software development)|fork]] from the inactive VisualBoyAdvance project,<ref name="DT">{{cite web |author=Brendan Hesse |url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/best-emulators/ |title=The best console emulators (NES, SNES, Genesis, and more) |language=en |website=[[Digital Trends]] |date=2020-11-23 |accessdate=2021-01-06}}</ref> adding several features as well as maintaining an up-to-date codebase. After VisualBoyAdvance became inactive in 2004, several forks began to appear such as VBALink, which allowed users to emulate the linking of two Game Boy devices. Eventually, VBA-M was created, which merged several of the forks into one codebase. Thus, the ''M'' in VBA-M stands for ''Merge''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=VBA-M (Archived - Now on Github)|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/vbam/|access-date=2020-10-18|website=SourceForge|date=10 February 2018 |language=en}}</ref> VBA-M is [[backwards compatible]] with [[Game Boy]] and [[Game Boy Color]].<ref name="PCWorld">{{cite web|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/482361/how_to_emulate_the_game_boy_game_boy_advance_on_your_pc.html|title=How to Emulate the Game Boy/Game Boy Advance on Your PC|first=Alex|last=Garnett|date=September 1, 2011|website=[[PC World]]|access-date=September 26, 2022}}</ref>

VBA-M's GBA emulation core was ported into [[RetroArch]]/[[Libretro]], without the GB, GBC and SGB cores.<ref>https://github.com/visualboyadvance/vbam-libretro {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> as well as a modified version called VBA-Next.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/libretro/vba-next |title = GitHub - libretro/vba-next: Optimized port of VBA-M to Libretro.|website = [[GitHub]]|date = 21 December 2021}}</ref>

VBA-GX is a port of VBA-M to [[Nintendo Wii]]. It enables [[motion controls]] for emulated Game Boy Advance games.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Custodio |first=Alex |title=Who Are You? Nintendo's Game Boy Advance Platform |publisher=MIT Press |year=2020 |isbn=9780262360463 |location=United States |pages=164–166}}</ref>