Dragon Mech wrote:thanks SE7EN, logic would suggest that VisualBoyAdvance-M 1088 would work on win XP and newer systems. but not on anything older than win xp, i think that my computer is getting too old to run some of these newer emulators. but i love my rig and am happy with what it can do. i tried the rom that you said worked on VisualBoyAdnvance 1.0a and it showed the classic zelda title screen and i was able to play the game. but the text looked squished and deformed.
if you cannot update to a new version of windows, or reformat to original state.. you may consider using a persistent linux live cd (Ubuntu) and trying some of the emulators on there. You may have luck with that, with a bit of configuring and whatnot, and it will not change the Windows you are using now at all.