Nintendo GBA Romset v1.0 (1553 Games) (No-Intro) (No Duplicates) (No Hacked ROMS) (Extras)

Before anything and everything; Realize that my connection is slow, so until one of the community people on here that help gets the pack, the download will be slow. If you do not like to wait or hate slow download speeds, then please avoid this torrent, until at least a couple of seeders get it.



Hello everyone! I always am looking for romsets that are meant to have only a single rom for each game, rather than a lot of different versions of it, but never am able to find them. I finally managed to make this for myself and thought of sharing it, for people like me.

So this Romset is meant to be one that does not have any duplicate games in it and it is NOT for collectors, but for people that want to just get the roms and play, without having 5-6 different versions of the same game. My target is to keep a single game out of all the different releases, meaning that there should be only a single rom for each game.

Pay attention to what you want to download! Even if the pack is 6GB, the Game Boy Advance Videos are about 1GB in size. They are amusing to watch, but if anything, they are not games, but really low quality videos created to play on Game Boy Advance. Also Multi-Game carts, are just games that can be found in the main pack, but each rom has two or three games. The Main Pack is 4.8GB without anything else.

The Others part of the main pack, is whatever rom was in non English or Japan language. They are just a couple of German, French and other roms. These are in that language, because I could not find them in English.

I have gotten these roms from Emuparadise and thus decided to share them packed all together, rather than each one separate. If you want to play only some games and not download them all, then visit Emuparadise and get them from there.

This Romset is made from the large romset offered at Emuparadise and updated with the latest No-Intro (no hacked games) pack from Emuparadise.

I have tried my best to not have duplicate games, but even so, there might be a couple left that I did not detect. If you find any duplicate game, please do report it in comments.

Always though first test the game to see if it is a duplicate, rather than just considering it a duplicate because of the name! There are quite a few roms that have the same exact name, but they are different games! Always test them first!

Main ROMSet
There are 1057 American/European roms and 496 Japanese roms, in the main pack. The priority of the roms I chose is USA, then Europe, then Japan and finally other regions. This time I made sure to update all the roms and remove any possible duplicate rom, even if the roms had different names.

Even if all roms are meant to be clean working roms, there are some rare exceptions. Games marked with (b) (there are none in the main pack) are meant to be bad dumps, but the reason they are in there, it is because there are no good dumps of them, and I keep them in my list to see if working roms of them will appear.

Games marked with Proto (there are 12) are meant to be what you would call Alpha release. Some actually work normally, but others barely can be called games.

Games marked with Beta (there are none in the main pack) are meant to be glitchy, but should work mostly fine.

There are 13 non English European roms in the GBA_Others_Romset. That means the English ones are 1044.

Extra
I have also included some separate extra packs of roms, which are either SNES pirate or hack games and some other oddities.

Multi-Game Carts contain games from the main pack, so that means they are not needed per se. I might be wrong and one or two might have games that are not in the main pack, but there are 62 roms in the pack and honestly I did not check ever single one.



Game Boy Advance Video, like I mentioned above, are just videos that can play on gameboy. I remember at a point I wanted a couple, that were from Nickelodeon. It is up to you to get them or not.

Finally, I included the whole e-Cards pack, as it is from Emuparadise. It contains over 3000 3-Cards, but I did not feel like removing duplicates. Honestly I never used them, but I just thought to add them, for people that might want to try them out.

Games List
I have compiled a list of the Main Romset games in different formats, from normal text, to rtf and two different type of excel formats. The txt and rtf obviously can be read by the default Windows document readers, Notepad and Wordpad. The txt is simple where the rtf looks like a nice list in boxes, looking like an excel.

The Excel ones, ods and xml, are for either OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and they have filters to filter out versions and regions. If you download more than one of my romsets, you can always combine the Excel pages, by copying them all in a single Excel file. Just suggesting that for people that do not want to have a lot of different excel files.

Emulator
For these, I am just using the widely known VBA-M. Not much to say, since I believe that is the best one that can be found for GBA.

FrontEnd
Finally I want to suggest LaunchBox. Launchbox is a frontend for multiple emulators and if anything it is the best I have found out there. It is easy to import games in it's interface, it suggests the best emulator to get when for each console, when you try to add an emulator and it has the best interface I have found. Weirdly, I like the free UI it offers (LaunchBox) and not the paid one that people that buy it can get (BigBox). The LaunchBox UI shows every game in a list with a picture of the cover or a screenshot from in game and that is really nice for me. The paid UI it offers just shows a list and only when you choose the name you can see any pictures of it. It can automatically look into picture databases and download pictures for a lot of the games. You can check the screenshot to see what I mean.