GameBoy Advance

This is an excellent Game Boy Advance / Nintendo DS / DSi and maybe 3DS???

No Cash GBA is a Nintendo DS / DSi / DS Lite emulator and of course GameBoy Advance, for Windows XP, Windows Vista/7/8/10/11 or MS-DOS (for the DOS version). The options include all types of backups and the reading of multiple cartridges. NoGBA supports multiplayer is capable of loading several NDS Roma to "link" games. The multiplayer for GBA is also supported



14 Apr 2025 - version 3.06
- gba/bios/clone: ignore CpuFastSet to readonly bios area (thanks denim)
- iomap: fixed BG0-3 display for GBA mode (without ext_pal, unlike NDS/Dsi)
- gui: fixed gaming version help window (to be displayed on top of game window)
- controls/touchscreen: senses 2nd mouse clicks (via WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK)
- controls/setup: option for polling analog sticks each frame, slow on gameports
- filesys viewer: preview NDS/DSi/3DS icons/textures
- filesys viewer: preview HEX dump, TXT ascii...

It is an emulator of GameBoy Advance.

An GB/GBC/GameBoy Advance emulator written in C-language by Jeffrey Pfau (endrift) and based (substibly) on GBA.js and aims to be a high-quality emulator. Available for Windows (Vista and . . .), Linux, Mac OSX and many other systems.



The changes:

Fixed articulation:
– GB Audio: Fix audio envelope timing resetting too often (fixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
– GB I/O: Fix STAT writing IRQ trigger conditions (fixes 2501)
– GBA GPIO: Fix gyro read-out start (fixes 3141)
– GBA I/O: Fix HALTCNT access behaviour (fixes 2309)
– GBA I/O: Fix audio register 8-bit write behavior
– GBA Serialize: Properly restore GPIO register state (fixes 3294)
– GBA SIO: Fix MULTI mode SIOCNT bit 7 writes on secondary GBAs (fixes 3110)

Fixed other:
– Core: Fix patch autoloading leaking the file handle
– GB: Fix uninitialized save data when loading undersized temporary saves
– GB...

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ares is a multi-system emulator that began development on October 14th, 2004. It is a descendant of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation.










Changelog:

Atari 2600

• Improved 6502 CPU emulation; all unofficial opcodes are now implemented
• Improve handling of the HMOVE register
• Refactor of TIA; fixes many emulation issues but still imperfect
• Implement correct 6502 reset timing

Bandai - WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color

• Minor fixes to v30mz CPU emulation
• Emulate...

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Created by DS Baxter (aka)Shonumi Ikozumo) GBE an emulator of GameBoy/Color, GBA and NDS for Windows. The aim is to create an emulator.Ultra-portableusing C and SDL, document the functions of the Game Boy by a clear code, and add many improvements (graphic filters, codes, custom sprites, etc.).


– Reworked Pokemon Mini netplay to be much simpler. All players need to do isole each point instance of GBE to the correct player (e.g. Player 1, Player 2, etc.) using the F4 hotkey.
– Added support for the Glucoboy. GBE now allows players to manipulate various stats that unlock in-game Glucose Reward Points.
– Improved support for the Campho Advance. Menus work, contact data can be saved, and handles basic virtual calls. No own audio/video yet.
– Improved support for the Play-Yan and Play-Yan Micro. Audio/video output yet
– Added support for the Nintendo MP3 player. No audio/video output yet, but menus are accessible...

It is a very precise GameBoy Advance emulator written in C. It aims at accurate cycle emulation where possible, while offering improvements such as better audio quality.

Some characteristics:
– Very high compatibility and accuracy (see Precision Chapter)
– HQ audio mixer (for games that use Nintendo's MusicPlayer2000 sound engine)
– Post-processing options (colour correction, xBR-scale and simulation of LCD phantom images)
– Support for backup status (10 backup locations available)
– Support for the game controller (the buttons and the axes can be remapped)
– Loading of ROM from archives (zip, 7z, Tar and limited support from RAR1)
– Emulation RTC
– Solar sensor emulation (e.g. for Boktai – The sun is in your hand)



The changes:

– UI: implement an option to pause the emulator when the window is inactive
– UI: improve lack of response to input changes in the sprite...

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Hades is still under heavy development but it aims to have a decent balance between usability, speed and accuracy.



Currently, Hades features:

• Decent accuracy
• Game controller support
• Keys and buttons remapping
• Quick Saves (also known as Save State)
• Real Time Clock (RTC) support
• Color correction & LCD effects
• Loading games from common archive formats (.zip, .7z, .rar, etc.)

It is the third software emulator to pass the AGS Aging Cartridge used to test Game Boy Advance systems.

Changelog unknown

A GameBoy B&W and Color, Super GameBoy and GameBoy Advance emulator created by Mudlord (with the help of Nach, Squall Leonhart, Spacy, DJRobX, Jonas Quinn) and based on VBA by Forgotten and the VBA development team. The goal is to bring together as many improvements as possible from other VBA builds. A macOS build is also available.



Changelog:

– Remove SDL sound driver [rkitover)
– Fix wav audio recording [40356555-Aikku93-Aikku93-Aikku93-Aikku93-Aikku93-
– Dialog appearance improvements and link warning
– build: don’t fseeko64()/ftello64() on musl libc [rkitover)
– visualboyadance-m.metainfo.xml: add screenshots to the metainfo [zachbacon)

GitHub - visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m: The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator.

The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator. - visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m

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An emulator of GameBoy and Color, Super GameBoy and GameBoy created Advance by Mudlord (with the help of Nach, Squall Leonhart, Spacy, DJRobX, Jonas Quinn) and based on Forgotten's VBA and the "VBA development team". The love is to bring together as many improvements as possible from the other build of VBA. A MacOS build is also available.

Only Windows 7 or above and MacOS is also available.

Changelog:

NB: This version is no longer compatible with the Kegagraphics plugin pack(which is compatible only with the old version 2.0 beta 2 build noWx).

The exchange:

– Store the PC register at the appropriate offset
– Resize GameArea after MainFrame initialization [steelskin)
– Properly hide the status bar at startup
– Fix reading joystick hat config values
– Link: Fix menu not refreshing correctly

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Game Boy and Game Boy Advance Emulator

Changelog:

This is a maintenance release mostly to fix OpenGL for Wayland users on distributions where wxGTK was built without EGL.

• aca206a - Launch on xwayland under Wayland if no EGL [rkitover]
• 93a24be - Disable mirroring for ROMs > 32MB [rkitover]
• 0f4ec57 - [Build] Fix the NO_LINK build [steelskin]
• 803ab35 - [GB] Save MBC7 EEPROM data to gbRam [steelskin]...

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Hades is still under heavy development but it aims to have a decent balance between usability, speed and accuracy.

Currently, Hades has the following characteristics:

– Decent accuracy
– Color correction
– Fast save (also known as Save State)
– Real Time Clock (RTC) support
– Game controller support

It is the third emulator to pass the benchmarks of the AGS Aging Cartridge used to test Game Boy Advance systems.


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SkyEmu is a low level GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS emulator. Its primary focus is to provide a good user experience through a good mixture of tradeoffs of accuracy, performance, features and usability.

Features

• Highly accurate Game Boy Advance emulation
• Game Boy and Game Boy Color Emulation
• Nintendo DS Emulation (Beta Quality)
• High Quality Upscaling Shaders, Color Correction, and Screen Ghosting
• Cross Platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, iOS, Android, and Web
• Game Controller and Rumble Support with configureable keybinds
• 4x Persistent Save State Slots with screenshot preview
• Game fastforward and rewind support (supporting very long rewind times)
• Action Replay Cheat Code Engine
• Localization in Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Italian, and Russian...

A B&W GameBoy, Super GameBoy and GameBoy Advance emulator created by Mudlord (with help from Nach, Squall Leonhart, Spacy, DJRobX, Jonas Quinn) and based on VBA from Forgotten and the "VBA development team". The goal is to bring together as many improvements as possible from other VBA builds. A macOS build is also available.

Version exclusively available for Windows 7 and above.

(old XP compatible version available here )

NB: This version is no longer compatible with Kega's graphics plugin pack (which only remains compatible with the old version 2.0 beta 2 build not Wx ).

Changes:

– Fix Discord streaming for OpenGL [danialhorton]
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A new release of mGBA, version 0.10.2 is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains several important fixes. Important fixes include crashing on start on very old graphics cards and flickering issues on Nvidia GPUs when using the OpenGL renderer. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

• GBA Audio: Fix improperly deserializing GB audio registers (fixes #2793)
• GBA Audio: Clear GB audio state when disabled
• GBA Memory: Make VRAM access stalls only apply to BG RAM
• GBA Overrides: Fix saving in PMD:RRT (JP) (fixes #2862)
• GBA SIO: Fix SIOCNT SI pin value after attaching player 2 (fixes #2805)
• GBA SIO: Fix unconnected normal mode SIOCNT SI bit (fixes #2810)
• GBA SIO: Normal mode transfers with no clock should not finish (fixes #2811)...

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mGBA is a new emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack.

Features:

- Near full Game Boy Advance hardware support[1].
- Fast emulation. Known to run at full speed even on low end hardware, such as netbooks.
- Qt and SDL ports for a heavy-weight and a light-weight frontend.
- Save type detection, even for flash memory size[2].
- Real-time clock support, even without configuration.
- A built-in BIOS implementation, and ability to load external BIOS files.
- Turbo/fast-forward support by holding Tab.
- Frameskip, configurable up to 9.
- Screenshot support.
- 9 savestate slots. Savestates are also viewable as screenshots.
- Video and GIF recording.
- Remappable controls for both keyboards and gamepads.
- Loading from ZIP files.
- IPS and UPS patch support.
- Game debugging via a command-line interface (not available with Qt port) and GDB...

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SkyEmu is a low level GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Game Boy Advance emulator. Its primary focus is to provide a good user experience through a good mixture of tradeoffs of accuracy, performance, features and usability.

Changelog:

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https://github.com/skylersaleh/SkyEmu/releases/tag/v2

mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator, copyright © 2013–2022 Vicki Pfau. This project is not affiliated in any way with Nintendo.

Features

• Preliminary Lua scripting support
• Presets for Game Boy palettes
• Add Super Game Boy palettes for original Game Boy games
• Tool for converting scanned pictures of e-Reader cards to raw dotcode data
• Options for muting when inactive, minimized, or for different players in multiplayer
• Cheat code support in homebrew ports
• Acclerometer and gyro support for controllers on PC
• Support for combo “Super Game Boy Color” SGB + GBC ROM hacks
• Improved support for HuC-3 mapper, including RTC
• Support for 64 kiB SRAM saves used in some bootlegs
• Discord Rich Presence now supports time elapsed
• Additional scaling shaders
• Support for GameShark Advance SP (.gsv) save file importing
• Support for multiple saves per game using .sa2, .sa3, etc.
• Support for GBX format Game Boy ROMs
• New...

NanoBoyAdvance is a Game Boy Advance emulator focused on accuracy.

Linux installation instructions:

• install SDL2, GLEW and Qt5

Changelog​

• ARM: force CPSR/SPSR bit 4 to one (fixes Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge)
• Bus: Game Pak access sometimes incurs a one-cycle penalty when prefetch is active
• Bus: HALT incurs a two-cycle penalty
• DMA: make access pattern (more) accurate for ROM to ROM and other weird DMAs.
• DMA: move the second internal cycle at the end of the transfer
• DMA: handle more changes to the control register during a transfer
• IRQ: rework interrupt delay emulation (once again)
• Timer: writing to the control register takes one cycle to apply
• PPU: apply horizontal sprite mosaic as a post-process
• APU: model FIFO as a buffer of seven (not eight) 32-bit words (thanks Gericom) (fixes #101)
• APU: high bits of SOUND2CNT_L should return...

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Ares Git (2022/02/28) is compiled. ares is a multi-system emulator that began development on October 14th, 2004. It is a descendent of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation.

ares currently emulates the following 27 hardware devices:

* Famicom + Famicom Disk System
* Super Famicom + Super Game Boy
* Nintendo 64 (under development)
* Game Boy + Game Boy Color
* Game Boy Advance + Game Boy Player
* SG-1000 + SC-3000
* Master System + Game Gear
* Mega Drive + Mega CD
* PC Engine + PC Engine CD + SuperGrafx
* MSX + MSX2
* ColecoVision
* Neo Geo Pocket + Neo Geo Pocket Color
* WonderSwan + WonderSwan Color + SwanCrystal + Pocket Challenge V2

Ares Git changelog:

* Revert "ares: remove performance renderers"
* m68000: reimplement DBcc instruction with correct timing
* ares: remove performance renderers
* nall: fix many compilation warnings on macOS
* md: fix debug register sprite masking
* md: fix APU port in
* md: second attempt at vblank bit timing
*...

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A new release of mGBA, version 0.9.3 is available. This version is a bugfix release, which contains many important fixes. Importantly, random freezing with the OpenGL display driver, mostly when using fast forward, which had only partially been fixed in 0.9.2, should now be properly fixed. An extensive list of changes follows after the cut.

Emulation fixes:

• GB I/O: Fix incrementing SGB controller when P14 is low (fixes #2202)
• GB Video: Render SGB border when unmasking with ATTR/PAL_SET (fixes #2261)
• GBA SIO: Fix SI value for unattached MULTI mode
• GBA Video: Fix backdrop color if DISPCNT is first set to 0 (fixes #2260)
• GBA Video: Don’t iterate affine backgrounds when disabled
• GBA Video: Delay enabling backgrounds in bitmap modes (fixes #1668)

Other fixes:

• ARM Decoder: Fix decoding of lsl...

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