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→Emulators: RetroAchievements column added.
! scope="col"|[https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBA_e-Reader_emulators e-Reader]
! scope="col"|[[libretro]]
! scope="col"|[https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=5 <small>Retro<br/>Achievements</small>]
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
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!colspan="1516"|PC /x86
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|[[mGBA]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Web}}
|[https://mgba.io/builds/1/ Dev builds]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[https://mgba.io/downloads.html {{MGBAVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=medusa>Experimental separate build under the name of [[mGBA#medusa|medusa]].</ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} <small>[https://mgba.io/timeline.html#IN+THE+FUTURE (WIP)]</small> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA>Exclusive to libretro core.</ref> ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|[[VisualBoy Advance#VBA-M|VBA-M]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://nightly.vba-m.com/ Nightly builds]<br/> [http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core] <br/> [https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases {{VBAMVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref> ||Mid-High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[NanoBoyAdvance]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://nightly.link/nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance/workflows/build/master Dev builds]<br/> [https://github.com/nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance/releases 1.7]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|SkyEmu
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Web}}
|[https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/143 Dev Builds]<br />[https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/releases/ v2]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}[https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/44 *] ||{{✗}}[https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/issues/44 *] ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}[https://old.reddit.com/r/EmuDev/comments/vvdqyk/release_of_skyemu_10/ifjfj7a/ *] ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||High-Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[ares]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://nightly.link/ares-emulator/ares/workflows/build/master <abbr title="Latest development build version">git Artifacts</abbr>]<br/>[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[GBE+]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus/releases {{GBEVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{~}} <small>(WIP)</small> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}[[#Special_Hardware|*]]
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|[[No$|No$GBA]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|DOS}}
|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm {{No$GBAVer}}]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid-High ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[BizHawk]]<br/><small>(mGBA 0.10.0)</small>
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://gitlab.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/-/pipelines Dev builds]<br/>[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[MAME]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|<abbr title="Latest development version">git artifacts</abbr><ref group=N>[https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-windows/master CI-Windows] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-linux/master CI-Linux] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-macos/master CI-Macos]</ref><br/>[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{~}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}|-|[[Mednafen]]<br/><small>[https://docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_gba/ mednafen_gba_libretro]</small>|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/libretro core]|? ||? || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref> ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|[[higan]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases/tag/v110 {{higanVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}<ref group=N>Superseded by [[ares]].</ref>
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|iDeaS
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20150311100053/http://ciacin.site90.com/ideas.php 1.0.4.0]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|[https://fms.komkon.org/VGBA VGBA]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://fms.komkon.org/VGBA/#Downloads {{VGBAVer}}]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|Meteor
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://github.com/blastrock/meteor 1.4.2]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Low-Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|BoyCottAdvance
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[http://boycottadvance.emuunlim.org/Downloads.htm 0.2.8]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|PlayBoy Advance
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|[https://www.zophar.net/macintosh/gba/playboy-advance.html 1.0]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|Hades
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://github.com/Arignir/Hades Git]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|GameBeanAdvance
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://github.com/bmchtech/GameBeanAdvance Git]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{~}} ||{{✗}}
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!colspan="1516"|Mobile / ARM
|-
|[[mGBA]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
|[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|[[VisualBoy Advance#VBA-M|VBA-M]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
|[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid-High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|SkyEmu
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}
|[https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/pull/143 v3]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} || High-Cycle ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[gpSP]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Pandora|Didj}}
|[http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.gpsp.notaz 0.9.2.8 Pandora]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref> ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|Pizza Boy GBA
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.dbtecno.pizzaboygbapro 2.0.5]
|{{~}}<ref group=N name=pizzaboygbc>Separate app called Pizza Boy GBC.</ref> ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|[https://www.explusalpha.com/contents/gba-emu GBA.emu]<br/><small>(VBA-M 2.1.4 based)</small>
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|Pyra}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.GbaEmu {{.emuVer}}][https://github.com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha git]</br>[https://pyra-handheld.com/repo/apps/75 1.5.46.02 Pyra]
|{{~}}<ref group=N name=gbc.emu>Separate app called GBC.emu.</ref> ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|-
|[https://sites.google.com/site/fastemulator/ My Boy!]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fastemulator.gba 1.8.0]
|{{~}}<ref group=N name=myoldboy>Separate paid app called My OldBoy!.</ref> ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|[https://forums.windowscentral.com/app-spotlight/252987-trio-nintendo-emulators-vba8-vgbc8-snes8x.html VBA10]
|align=left|{{Icon|W10P}}
|[https://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-10-mobile/windows-10-mobile-apps-and-games/app-vba10-emulator-t3588704 1.22]<br/>[https://emulator.games/emulators/gameboy-advance/vba10/ Alt]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
|-
|GBA_J2ME
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
|[http://oldfag.top/downloads/?act=view&id=168 1.0]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
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|VGBAnext
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.emu {{VGBANextVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|DeeS
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://github.com/DeeSEmu/DeeS 1.0.6]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} || ? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|GBA4iOS
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://iemulators.com/gba4ios 2.1]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|[http://web.archive.org/web/20190801135245/http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/software/content/VBA8_1.php VBA8]
|align=left|{{Icon|W8P}}
|[https://www.appx4fun.com/xap/15223/ 2.27]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low-Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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!colspan="1516"|Consoles
|-
| Nintendo Switch Online
| align=left|{{Icon|Switch}}
| N/A
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}<abbr title="SMA4 only">*</abbr> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||High[https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood/status/1624005571815899136 *] ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[mGBA]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|WiiU|Switch}}<br>{{Icon|3DS|PSV}}
|[https://mgba.io/builds/1/ Dev builds]<br/> [https://mgba.io/downloads.html {{MGBAVer}}]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref> ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|VBA Next
|align=left|{{Icon|NGC|Wii|NX}}<br/>{{Icon|PS3|PS4|Vita}}<br/>{{Icon|Xbox|Xbox360}}
|?[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid-High ||{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[gpSP]]
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP|DC}}<br/>{{Icon|PS2}}<br/>{{Icon|3DS|Vita}}
|?[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]|? ||? || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} || ? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}<small>(Libretro Only)<small> ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[gpSP#PSP_version|TempGBA4PSP]]
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
|[http://www.mediafire.com/download/41ny5xrwxizalx4/TempGBA4PSP-26750221.zip 26750221]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[Virtual Console]]
|align=left|{{Icon|3DS|WiiU}}
|8.10
|{{✓}}<abbr title="3DS only">*</abbr> ||{{✓}}<abbr title="Wii U only">*</abbr> ||{{✓}}<abbr title="Pokemon only">*</abbr> ||{{✓}}<abbr title="Pokemon only">*</abbr> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}<abbr title="Wii U only">*</abbr> ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} || High-Native ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|ReGBA
|Align=left|{{Icon|PS2}}
|[https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1332 v1.45.5 revision 3]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low-Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[https://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=Enhanced_mGBA emGBA]
|align=left|{{Icon|GCN|Wii}}
|[https://files.extremscorner.org/gamecube/apps/mgba/latest git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|[[gpSP]]
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
|[https://www.retroarch.com/?page=platforms 0.91]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[VisualBoy Advance#VBA-GX|VBA GX]]
|align=left|{{Icon|GCN|Wii}}
|[https://github.com/dborth/vbagx/releases git]
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}<ref group=N>As VBA-Next.</ref> ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|Gbaemu4DS
|align=left|{{Icon|NDS}}
|[https://ichfly.github.io/gbaemu4DS Alpha 2 fix 4][https://github.com/ichfly/gbaemu4DS git]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|[[GBARunner2]]
|align=left|{{Icon|NDS|3DS}}
|[https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/releases/tag/v20200812-131430_6e4ce45 2020/08/12]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} || ? || ? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low-High ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|[[gpSP|UO gpSP Kai]]
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
|3.4 test 4 build 230
|? ||? ||? ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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