GameBoy Advance Emulators


          Founded on November 9, 1996


Name Links Last Updated OS Description
AGD v0.14b 08/16/01 Windows AGD runs on Windows-based systems with the latest version of Direct-X installed on your machine. AGD includes support for code breakpoints, data breakpoints, debug output, and user breakpoints; and includes a GUI for convenient operation.
BatGBA v2.25b 07/11/02 Windows A newer GBA emulator, BatGBA is coming along rather nicely. Keep an eye on this and download it yourself to see!
Boycott Advance v0.2.8 05/16/03 Windows This is great GBA emulator coded by Gollum. It can play almost all commercial games with full sound. There are many different language versions at the official webpage.
Boycott Advance (Win32/DirectX) v0.2.8 R1 06/19/03 Win32/DirectX This is a Win32/DirectX version of Boycott Advance. It requires the SDL library to run.
Boycott Advance Online v0.15b 12/28/01 Windows This is an online version of Gollum's Boycott Advance Gameboy Advance emulator.
Catapult 1.40b (Demo, English)

1.32b (Demo, Spanish)

06/03/04 Windows This is an emulator/development kit for the GBA, including its own custom language, an editor, and a debugger. We can only offer you the demo version, as the full version is not free.
CowBite VIII Pre Alpha 2

Source

09/15/02 Win9x This GBA emulator has 90% support of most mappers, joystick emulation, interrupt and sound emulation.
Creem Source 10/14/01 Source This author of this project has quit and is releasing the source code to his emulator. Creem is not a very advanced project, but perhaps someone will continue it now that the source is available.
DreamGBA TNG v1.4 05/29/04 Windows DreamGBA is a Windows-based GBA emulator by Kervin. It has a great compatibility and optimized sound emulation. A bios image is required.
Dsemu v0.0.2e 03/27/05 Windows The author of this emulator plans on turning this into a Nintendo DS emulator, but since it's simply not possible and probably said for hype, this is a Gameboy Advance emulator. It can play most demos so far.
EloGba Release 1 02/05/01 Win9x Another decent GBA emulator...this one has a few bugs, tho: Mode 0 is broken, OAM is broken, any demo that uses sin() and floating point library calls lock up.
GBAEmu Build 000915 09/15/00 Win9x/NT This is amazing. An emulator released before the actual system. :) This emulator runs the rare Yoshi technical demo, along with a host of other homebrewn demos (which can be found in the Gameboy Advance Freeware ROMs section. There is a trick to getting ROMs running in this emulator though. First, when the emulator starts up, put in the directory you have the emulator in (for example, mine is d:\emulation\gba), load whatever demo your wanting to run (you'll more than likely get an error message, but that's normal), then, under Tools, open the Debugger and the Graphics Viewer, click GBA screen and Auto Refresh, then go over to the Debugger and click Start. With any luck the demo will start.
Gebea Release 8

Source Release 8

10/16/04 Win32 Gebea is a new Gameboy Advance emulator on the scene. Most of the ARM7TDMI is emulated, but it lacks audio, some input and interrupt driven transfers. It is plugin based and is programmed in Assembly, C, and Euphoria. It only runs demos so far.
iGBA v0.08b 03/25/01 Win9x This emulator is getting to be pretty advanced. Some commercial games will not run, but there are bugs. You should give it a try.
Mappy VM v0.9d

Source v0.9d

04/01/03 Win9x After a long time, Mappy VM is now a GBA emulator worth checking out with many speed and compatibility improvements. Give it a try!
No$GBA v2.0a

v2.0a

09/29/04 Windows

DOS

NO$GBA emulates the complete GBA hardware and is now freeware for gamers. This emulator is really fast and small (around 64KB), but debugging features are not included.
PC Advance v0.1c 02/05/01 Win9x Up and coming Gameboy Advance emulator. At current time runs several homebrew roms.
RascalBoy Advance v1.2.8.5

Multiplayer Plugin v1.0.0.0

11/15/04

08/01/04

Windows A newer GBA emulator by Lino Maglione that emulates mostly all of the core GBA functions. It has become one of the better GBA emulators out there.
This plugin enables RBA to link up to 4 other RBAs for emulated multplay and cart connecting.
VBALink v1.7L beta 11/03/04 Windows This is a modified, unofficial version of Visualboy Advance which supports up to four GBAs linked together. Now with LAN support!
VGBA v0.6

v2.1

04/24/01

11/19/03

DOS

Windows

This is an old free version for DOS. The up to date Windows version costs $35 US.
VisualBoyAdvance v1.7.2

Win32 SDL v1.7.2

v1.7.2 (Development)

v1.7.2 Source

v1.8.0 Beta

RegionCreater w/ GUI

Sample Skin

05/23/04

05/23/04

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05/23/04

01/20/05

12/11/03

12/11/03

Windows This emulator focuses on compatability. Some of its good features include GBA sound (including Direct Sound), 100% ARM and THUMB emulation, and emulated BIOS functions. It requires DirectX 7+ and the Windows desktop must be in 32-bit mode. VisualBoy Advance is the followup to VisualBoy (it retains all functionality of VisualBoy). An excellent emulator!.
VisualBoyAdvance Collector's Edition v1.0 09/17/04 Windows Based off VisualBoyAdvance v1.7.2, this is a somewhat optimized version of VBA by Hiroshi. Made in honor of Forgotten (VisualBoyAdvance's creator). This build is much faster than the original VBA and supports more filters.

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