GBA Emulators
GBA emulators are software applications designed to replicate the hardware of the Game Boy Advance, allowing users to play GBA games on various devices such as PCs, smartphones, and tablets. They enable the running of game ROMs, providing a way to enjoy classic games without the original handheld console.
Popular GBA emulators, such as VisualBoyAdvance and mGBA, are renowned for their high compatibility with a wide range of games and their user-friendly interfaces. These emulators often come with additional features like save states, screen filters, fast-forwarding, and game cheats, enhancing the overall gaming experience.
GBE Plus is a GBC emulator strives to offer as many enhancements as possible, even adding the ability for a user to replace certain sprites from within games. Also, GBE Plus provides stable and accurate emulation of the Game Boy Color.
higan is the most advanced emulator available for the SNES. Unlike most emulators, higan focuses on emulation accuracy at the cost of performance.
mGBA while being a new GBA emulator to hit the web is one of the best, built with portability, speed and accuracy in mind its quickly propped itself up as a GBA emulator to look out for.
no$gba is the first GBA Emulator to offer support for multiplayer link. It is regarded as a highly capable emulator for the GBA while also being one of the best Nintendo DS Emulators around.
Visual Boy Advance (VBA) is a popular open source emulator that focuses on the GBA, GBC and the original Game Boy. It is one of the fastest emulators for the Game Boy Color but in turn sacrifices emulation accuracy.
BatGBA is a once promising emulator that has sadly been long put to rest, it required the GBA Bios to be able to emulate some games but had begun work on trying to emulate all required functions within BatGBA itself.
BoycottAdvance has now ceased active development, but was at one point regarded as one of the best GBA Emulators around, making use of an extremely fast recompiler core that gave it an edge in performance.
DreamGBA is a now dated GBA Emulator that required the GBA Bios to be able to run, it was at the time a promising emulator that was successfully able to emulate several GBA games.
RascalBoy Advance was one of the more promising emulators for the GBA, it challenged Visual Boy advance a time for the top spot but development sadly ceased.
