Game Boy Advance emulators
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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 | Recommended? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Visual Boy Advance | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ||
Visual Boy Advance-M (VBA-M) | r1199 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Gambatte | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ||
No$GBA | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ||
BGB | v1.4.3 | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
Meteor | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ||
Higan | v092 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Comparison
Visual Boy Advance-M is the best emulator for the GBA.
Gambatte is the best emulator for GB and Gameboy Color.
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.