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Revision as of 22:34, 11 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 Game Link Support Recommended?
Visual Boy Advance
Visual Boy Advance-M (VBA-M) r1199
RetroArch (VBA-Next)
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.