diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a9c3876c8a..d534c2d5eb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -148,3 +148,6 @@
 [submodule "Cores/TIC80/TIC-80"]
 	path = Cores/TIC80/TIC-80
 	url = https://github.com/Provenance-Emu/TIC-80.git
+[submodule "Cores/VisualBoyAdvance-M/Cores/vbam-libretro"]
+	path = Cores/VisualBoyAdvance-M/Cores/vbam-libretro
+	url = https://github.com/libretro/vbam-libretro.git
diff --git a/Cores/VisualBoyAdvance-M/Cores/vbam-libretro b/Cores/VisualBoyAdvance-M/Cores/vbam-libretro
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..7e30b03889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cores/VisualBoyAdvance-M/Cores/vbam-libretro
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 7e30b038893de63e674944f75581d57c7685ea3a