Gameboy Advance Emulation Comes to the Palm OS

Crimson Fire has released the Gameboy Advance (GBA) portion of its Firestorm gbaZ emulator.

Designed for high-resolution Palm OS 5 devices, Firestorm now supports Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance ROMs.

Emulating one device on another isn't an easy job, but Crimson Fire says it has made every effort to ensure good performance on a wide variety of Palm OS devices, including rewriting the entire emulation core in optimized assembly and allowing users to control the frameskip or disable sound.

Still, the company warns that GBA emulation speed will be determined by the device as well as the particular game. For example, although the Tapwave Zodiac series has a button layout specifically designed to play games, the processor is only 200 MHz, while the Tungsten T3 runs at twice the speed.

Firestorm gbaZ is available now for $17.99 on the Crimson Fire web site. Those would would like to try before they buy can download a demo.

This site also has links to hundreds of public-domain GBC and GBA games.

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