Difference between revisions of "Game Boy Advance emulators"

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Visual Boy Advance-M is the best emulator for the GBA.
 
Visual Boy Advance-M is the best emulator for the GBA.
  
Higan is the only emulator that properly emulates the Super Gameboy, though the quality of its Gameboy emulation is inferior to that of other emulators, unless one hunts down an older version of bSNES, which used the Gambatte core for its Super Gameboy functionality.
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higan is the only emulator that properly emulates the Super Game Boy, though the quality of its Game Boy emulation is inferior to that of other emulators, unless one hunts down an older version of bsnes, which used the Gambatte core for its Super Game Boy functionality.
 
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Revision as of 10:19, 17 July 2013

The Game Boy Advance (often shortened to GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001.

Emulators

Name Operating System(s) Latest Version GB/GBC GBA NDS Game Link Support Recommended
Visual Boy Advance-M (VBA-M) r1199
RetroArch (VBA-Next) Multi-platform 1.0.2
No$GBA Windows, MS-DOS 2.7
Meteor 1.4
higan Windows, Linux 0.92

Comparison

Visual Boy Advance-M is the best emulator for the GBA.

higan is the only emulator that properly emulates the Super Game Boy, though the quality of its Game Boy emulation is inferior to that of other emulators, unless one hunts down an older version of bsnes, which used the Gambatte core for its Super Game Boy functionality.