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Game Boy Advance

Nintendo handhelds

Game Boy Advance

The 32-bit handheld branch, with emulator profiles, compatibility notes, and setup guides collected automatically from the directory.
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mGBA

A practical Game Boy Advance starting point with broad platform support and a well-documented open-source project.

Emulators for Game Boy Advance

Published emulator profiles for this branch. Open a card for setup, downloads, and sources.

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AdvanceOS

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR AdvanceOS AdvanceOS is a small, bare‑metal operating system that runs Game Boy Advance binaries by providing a GBA-like environment on Raspberry Pi hardwa…

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Beetle GBA

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR CORE Beetle GBA Beetle GBA is a Libretro core that ports the Mednafen/VisualBoyAdvance lineage to the libretro API to run Game Boy Advance software inside…

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crab

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR crab Crab is an open-source emulator for Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance written in the Crystal programming language. GB/GBC emulation in Cr…

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DSHBA

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR DSHBA DSHBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator written in C++ that emphasizes performance and a GPU-backed "hardware" renderer. It uses…

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eggvance

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR eggvance Eggvance is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator project hosted on GitHub that aims to implement GBA hardware and run commercial and homebrew…

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GBAiD

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR GBAiD GBAiD is a Game Boy Advance emulator implemented in the D programming language. It targets desktop systems via SDL2/OpenGL and is intended as a lear…

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gpSP

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR CORE gpSP gpSP is a Game Boy Advance emulator implemented as a libretro core. It is a libretro adaptation of gpSP (based on notaz' fork) maintained w…

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guac

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR guac Guac is an open-source emulator written in Go that targets Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Nintendo DS. It emphasizes cycle-accurate G…

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Hades

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR Hades Hades is an open-source Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator that aims for a balance of usability, speed and accuracy. It provides controller support, sa…

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IodineGBA

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR IodineGBA IodineGBA is a JavaScript-based Game Boy Advance emulator that runs in modern web browsers. It implements GBA CPU, video and audio in HTML5/Java…

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Meteor

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR CORE Meteor Meteor is a libretro core: a port of the Meteor Game Boy Advance emulator to the libretro API. It is an early/incomplete GBA core maintained i…

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NanoBoyAdvance

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATORNanoBoyAdvanceA cycle-accurate Game Boy Advance emulator with an emphasis on hardware behavior and audio quality.Official downloads ↓Setup guide ↓ Tetris W…

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no$gba

NINTENDO DS AND GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR no$gba no$gba (NoCash GBA) is a Windows / MS-DOS emulator for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS (including DSi support in later builds) kno…

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react-gbajs

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR react-gbajs React wrapper that embeds a Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator for use in React web apps. It vendores GBA.js and exposes a React context and comp…

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SkyEmu

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR SkyEmu SkyEmu is an open-source emulator that runs Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and (beta) Nintendo DS software. It provides cross-platform…

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SwanGBA

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR SwanGBA SwanGBA is an open-source homebrew Bandai WonderSwan (Color/Crystal) and Benesse PocketChallenge V2 emulator built to run on Nintendo Game Boy Adv…

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switch-gba

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR switch-gba switch-gba is a browser-based Game Boy Advance emulator packaged to run as a web service (Docker image) and intended for playback through the N…

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TempGBA

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR CORE TempGBA TempGBA (libretro) — a libretro core that ports the PSP-era TempGBA Game Boy Advance emulator to the libretro API so it can run inside fronte…

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VBA Next

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR CORE VBA Next VBA Next is a Libretro core that provides Game Boy Advance emulation. It is a Libretro/RetroArch port built from VBA-M code with performance…

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VBA-M

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR CORE VBA-M VBA-M (VisualBoyAdvance-M) — a maintained fork of VisualBoyAdvance providing Game Boy Advance (and legacy Game Boy / Game Boy Color) emulation …

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VisualBoyAdvance-M

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR VisualBoyAdvance-M VisualBoyAdvance-M (VBA-M) is an actively maintained open-source emulator that continues the VisualBoyAdvance lineage and targets Game …

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zba

GAME BOY ADVANCE EMULATOR zba ZBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator written in Zig. It provides both CLI and simple GUI frontends, aims for completeness rather than advan…

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