Classic NES Metroid and Castlevania unplayable, player hardly moves

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load the VBA rom of Metroid 1 from the Classic NES series.
2. Press start until it responds and start a new game
3. try to move samus

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It is expected that Samus would move at a similar speed to the monsters. 
Instead Samus hardly moves at all, and is like a snail. There seems to be a 
lot of frame skipping, since the monsters move in big jumps (they move 
smoothly on VBA-M). 

Does the issue occur on the VBA-M?
No. The game works perfectly on VBA-M. 

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It seems like something important is being skipped in the Wii's frame 
skipping code. I don't know if this is related to the issues with Mother 3 
etc. Classic NES series games tend to have different issues from other 
roms. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 3:57

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Mother 3 issues are (quite possibly) just the Wii just not being able to keep 
up, 
even with frameskipping. It *might* be a matter of finding ways to improve the 
performance of this emu.

Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2009 at 7:42

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I think this is different from Mother 3 then.

I just tested in VBA-M, setting the frameskip to 9. No problems whatsoever. 
Samus 
moves at full speed. 

This bug is unique to something we are doing on the Wii version.

Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2009 at 11:17

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Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 8:24

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Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 8:25

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Also applies to Classic NES Castlevania.

Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 27 May 2009 at 11:07

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Original comment by Carl.Kenner@gmail.com on 28 May 2009 at 12:53

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classic nes was never been playable on VBA Windows too lol

Original comment by aaasdasd...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2009 at 1:28

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"classic nes was never been playable on VBA Windows too lol"

This is 100% wrong. GBA 1748 - Classic NES Series - Metroid (UE) works just 
fine in
VBA-M build 874, I suspect in previous builds also, but I didn't test.

Original comment by cov...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2009 at 5:26

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Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 17 Apr 2011 at 7:35

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