mGBA Has a .gif Making Feature.

I recently went on a mission to improve my Gameboy Advance emulation experience by finding a new GBA emulator, as Visualboy Advance is getting a bit long-in-the-tooth these days and for some reason, doesn't perform very well on my PC. So after a bit of trial and error, I landed on a recently developed piece of software called mGBA, which is a pretty good emulator of Nintendo's legendary Gameboy Advance.

To be honest, there's nothing really wrong with Visualboy Advance, I just fancied a change as I'd been using VBA for a good few years. I happened upon mGBA while I was browsing Emucr.com, (a very good site to find the absolute latest versions of emulators), so I tried it and enjoyed it. It's got all the features you'd expect from a modern emulator like save-states, frame-skipping and joypad support, but it also has another feature that I found particularly fun and useful. A .gif maker.

Basically, play a game, turn on the .gif maker and let it do its thing, then when you're done, deactivate the .gif maker and mGBA will dump all the frames it has recorded into one .gif file perfect for sharing on the various social networking sites. It's a very useful feature for people like me, because making an animated .gif manually is an annoying process, this feature of mGBA speeds it up a great deal, taking only minutes to do what could've taken more minutes before! The quality is very high too, just check out my GBA BIOS animation below. That was done in seconds!

Anyway, aside from this cool feature, mGBA is a highly compatible GBA emulator that is under constant development and is highly recommended to anyone who loves the Gameboy Advance. Visit the mGBA website and also check out Emucr.com for more bleeding-edge emulation stuff.