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VisualBoy Advance
VisualBoy Advance is our Editor’s Choice award winner for both the GameBoy Advance category as well as the Classic GameBoy category. For more information on this emulator, please see the Editor’s Review below.
- Full Editor's Choice Review
Download v1.7.2 (Stable) or v1.8.0 Beta 3 for Windows | Visit Homepage

           The table below contains editor's choice and recommended emulators. These are emulators that particularly stand out on their respective platforms or in many cases can emulate their target platform with a 90% accuracy rate or higher.

Recommended Emulators
  Emulator      Files        Comments
BGB
Homepage
v1.1 for Windows
6 / 26 / 2005
BGB is a very light-weight and accurate GameBoy / GameBoy Color emulator. This emulaotr has a rather strange GUI which requires a right-click to invoke. BGB also has a wide selection of graphical options for original Game Boy emulation which allow you to define and create your own color palletes. This emulator also features link cable support.
Overall Rating: 8.0 out of 10
GameLad
Homepage
v1.61 for Windows
10 / 5 / 2001
GameLad is definately an emulator aimed at the developers. This emulator is equipped with both a debugger and a disassembler and has the ability to throttle the emulation process on the fly. It also has the ability to run multiple virtual GameBoys at once. This emulator requires Direct X 8.0 or better and has link cable support built-in.
Overall Rating 7.5 out of 10
WinBoycott
Homepage
v0.63b for Windows
11 / 22 / 2000
WinBoycott has a high compatibility rate and reasonable speed. This emulator is however lacking a full-screen mode and any type of hardware acceleration. Classic GameBoy, Super GameBoy and GameBoy Color are all supported by this emulator. This is a port of the DOS-based GameBoy emulator Boycott.
Overall Rating: 7.5 out of 10
VisualBoy
Homepage
1.4.12 for Windows
Unknown - Discontinued
VisualBoy has a very high compatibility rate, performance is excellent and it supports all incarnations of the GameBoy. However, development of this emulator has been discontinued and it is now considered an integrated component of VisualBoy Advance. This emulator requires Direct X 7.0 or above.
Overall Rating: 7.5 out of 10
 

           The emulators below are considered works-in-progress. Due to their development stage many of these emulators may exhibit stability issues and may have little or no compatibility with commercial titles. Also due to their development stage we do not feel it's fair to rate these emulators as we do the others, so all emulators in this category are un-rated.

Other Emulators
  Emulator      Files        Comments

BasicBoy
No Homepage

v2.0.3 for Windows
7 / 6 / 2004

v2.0.3 Source
7 / 6 / 2004
BasicBoy is a new Gameboy emulator written entirely in Microsoft Visual Basic 6. This project formerly had a Visual Basic.NET release as well, although the VB.NET variation has been discontinued. Currently the original Gameboy and Gameboy Color are both supported. BasicBoy's compatibility is fair at the moment and some instabilities still exist. BasicBoy is also lacking gamepad input support. The BasicBoy source code is also available although a license has not been specified by the author.
GEST
Homepage
v0.85 for Windows
4 / 8 / 2004 - Discontinued

v0.85 Source
4 / 8 / 2004 - Discontinued
GEST is an Open-Source GameBoy / GameBoy Color emulator written in C/C++. Most of the graphics and audio emulation is based on code from Forgotten's VisualBoy Advance. This emulator lacks many features, such as gamepad support. GEST was officially discontinued on 11/25/2005.
 



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