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Name: | Mario Tennis: Power Tour |
Console: | Gameboy Advance (GBA) |
Release Date: | 2005 |
Publisher: | Nintendo |
Genres: | Sports |
Mario Tennis: Power Tour, known as Mario Power Tennis in Europe and Australia, and as Mario Tennis Advance in Japan, is a sports game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was released on September 13, 2005 in Japan, on November 18, 2005 in Europe, on December 1, 2005 in Australia, and on December 5, 2005 in North America. It is the sequel to the Game Boy Color version of Mario Tennis. Mario Tennis: Power Tour was the last Mario title released on the Game Boy Advance. Unlike Mario Tennis, players cannot hook their game up with the respective Nintendo GameCube version. It was re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.
There are two components for playing a gba Mario Tennis: Power Tour game on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the gba OS and software.
The second component is the Mario Tennis: Power Tour game itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest VBA-M – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading VBA-M, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the visualboyadvance-m.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Mario Tennis: Power Tour. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Visualboyadvance-m and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .zip file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.