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Change the Screenshot Format in the VBA Emulator

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You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to change the screenshot format on the VisualBoyAdvance emulator.

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To begin, open the VisualBoyAdvance emulator
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I have an icon for the emulator on my desktop, but you may have the program saved in another location.

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When the emulator is open, click "File" in the menu at the top of the window
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In the drop down menu, click "Open" to select a game
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For this tutorial, I will open the game "Pokemon".
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I currently have the screenshot shortcut set to "Shift+f12"
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If I press that shortcut now, you will see a screenshot thumbnail appears on my desktop. The current format or file type for this screenshot is "PNG".

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To change the format, click "Options" in the menu at the top of the screen
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In the drop down menu, go to "Emulator"
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Then, choose the format at the bottom of the expanded menu
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There are two options: "PNG" and "BMP". For this tutorial, I will select "BMP" by clicking on "BMP format" once.
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If I take another screenshot by pressing "Shift+f12", another screenshot will be saved to my desktop as a ".bmp" image
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Change these settings according to your preference.

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