How to Set Turbo in v2.1.4

[petrus]

I have made it that this post may function as stand-alone outside the introductory topic. Feel free to move somewhere else if you decided to have a quick guide section.

How to modify Speed Throttle setting (otherwise called Turbo Mode)

I am using the VBA-M version from here -> https://vba-m.com/visualboyadvance-m-214-released.html

First thing that I noticed is that VBA-M gets pretty confused if you've changed one setting too many so it is good to firstly reset the Emulator to its default settings.

1. Go to Help -> Factory Reset

   

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   This will remove all your previous settings (and all your previous attempts at fixing the speed issue ).

2. Restart the emulator.

3. Load a ROM (I am using Pokemon Leaf Green)

4. Now you should be able to run the game in Turbo mode (1000% of normal gameplay)

5. Go to OPTIONS -> VIDEO -> and enable the status bar to see the the game's speed in the right bottom corner of the screen.

   

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6. Press TAB or go to EMULATION -> Turbo Mode to turn on the Turbo mode.

However you may want to slow the turbo mode down a bit (just like me). To do this you need to modify one setting. But before that a safety warning.

BEWARE

Don't change any setting that has % and throttle mentioned in its name:

• "Speed Up Throttle" from OPTIONS -> Speed Up - Turbo mode

• "Throttle % of normal from OPTIONS -> General

In order to modify the speed of Turbo Mode all you need to do is to modify the "Speedup Frame Skip field"

EDIT

• "Speedup Frame Skip field" from OPTIONS -> Speed Up - Turbo mode

By default this field has the value "9" which means that the game will run at 1000% speed. I have it set up to 3 which gives Turbo mode at 400%.

Your set up should look similarly as my (see below). Don't touch anything that is marked in red .

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Hope this helps.

[Chosen]

Thanks for posting this. This is exactly was I was looking for after having some issues with the turbo mode settings (I was changing the "Speedup Throttle" setting). However, I still can't get it to work correctly. I followed the steps you outline and set the "Speedup Frame Skip" to 2, but when I turn turbo mode on, it jumps to 1000% speedup. I had mixed results with "Speedup Throttle", so I might experiment with that a little more. Any thoughts about what I might be doing wrong?

Thank!

[Crocodillian]

Try the nightly, it has a revamped interface and mechanism for this.

[Crocodillian]

You might want to go to Help -> Factory Reset before you change those settings.

[Crocodillian]

Try also setting speed to 200% and unselecting the 'frame skip' checkbox.