Features
Table of Contents
Available features #
Hades is still under development but it aims to have a decent balance between usability, speed and accuracy.
Currently, Hades features:
- Decent accuracy
- Game controller support
- Keys and buttons remapping
- Quick Saves (also known as Save State)
- Real Time Clock (RTC) support
- Color correction & LCD effects
- Loading games from common archive formats (.zip, .7z, .rar, etc.)
Post-Rendering Effects #
Hades features multiple post-rendering effects for a better experience, including color correction and an LCD grid effect (click the images to zoom on them):
Original
With color correction
With color correction and
LCD grid effect
Accuracy #
AGS Aging Cartridge #
Hades is the third 🥉 software emulator to pass the AGS Aging Cartridge used to test Game Boy Advance systems.
Benchmark #
This is a comparison of Hades to other popular GBA emulators using the mGBA test suite as a benchmark:
| Emulator | Memory (1552) | I/O (130) | Timing (2020) | Count Up (936) | Timer IRQ (90) | DMA (1256) | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NBA v1.7.1 | 1552 | 130 | 2020 | 936 | 90 | 1256 | 5984 |
| SkyEmu v3 | 1552 | 130 | 2020 | 717¹ | 90 | 1256 | 5765 |
| mGBA 0.10.2 | 1552 | 120 | 1768 | 744 | 70 | 1232 | 5486 |
| Hades 1.0.0 | 1552 | 130 | 1918 | 211 | 28 | 1156 | 4984 |
| Ares v135 | 1552 | 124 | 1570 | 461¹ | 0 | 1212 | 4919 |
| VBA-M 2.1.8 | 1422 | 100 | 1014 | 440 | 8 | 1068 | 4052 |
| No$gba v3.05 | Crash² | 129 | 1119 | 152 | 44 | 1060 | 2504 |
Benchmark done the 5th of January 2024 using the latest release of each emulators.
1: Results were inconsistent
2: The emulator crashed before the tests finished