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:::MY 2 cents: VBA-M has improved a lot, is still active developed and they are adding missing feature that mGBA supports. https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases. Personal opinions: compared to higan gives a lot less headache with GBA emulation (frame sync vs audio sync) and a lot better performance. It may not accurate as mGBA and as higan, but for the avarage user, it may be the best alternative to mGBA. --[[Special:Contributions/212.216.160.13|212.216.160.13]] 08:30, 17 November 2018 (EST)
::::The settings in VBA-M seem somewhat more customizable than mGBA (allowing you to change which kinds of save files it tries to detect for example). VBA-M allows you to limit your full screen stretching such that it remains at the frame size you've set it at (mGBA has no such functionality as far as I know). mGBA's audio accuracy also seems fairly off unless I'm mistaken. People are widely claiming that mGBA is more accurate but actually I've only seen evidence to the contrary. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.122.197|172.71.122.197]] 23:02, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
== More Emulators ==
The link in the "version" column leads to a 404, and no results pop up on Google, or even in GitHub. Unless it is an extremely confidential project, there's little to no proof this emulator even exists or has ever existed.
EDIT: turns out using Wayback Machine provided results with "standalones.dev". However, it's not possible to download anything anymore. Should we really keep it in the list? Same goes for AloneSFC and AloneMD in their respective pages.
== Move Bizhawk under mGBA ==
Bizhawk is currently just an emulator front end that contains an mGBA core. It would probably be nicer to de-duplicate the info by removing its row in the table and providing a link underneath mGBA like VBA-m and Mednafen have for their libretro cores.
== Ares & Higan Cycle Accuracy ==
Both Ares and Higan's GBA emulators fail many of the timing tests required for cycle accuracy see here: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBA_Tests
Nanoboy Advance is currently the only GBA emulator that really hits the spirit of this, having passed difficult cycle accuracy test benches on the CPU and its peripherals.
SkyEmu is close, having a cycle accurate CPU and most peripherals, but notably lacks cycle accurate PPU emulation (SkyEmu is only accurate to the pixel ~4 clock cycles).
All other emulators are pretty far away lacking clock accurate CPU, cartridge, and PPU emulation.
== mGBA audio accuracy ==
When I last used mGBA, I noticed that it emulated the GBA's audio quite inaccurately. Is there a reason I'm not aware of that this isn't mention on this page?
