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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.
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Editor's Choice Review |
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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.
Boycott
Advance
Homepage |
v
0.2.8 for Windows
5 / 16 / 2003 |
Boycott Advance
was one of the first GameBoy Advance emulators
to be developed. It has a very high compatibility
rate, includes joystick support, has a few development
tools and has decent sound emulation. The only
area this emulator is lacking in is video, at the
moment there is no support for hardware acceleration
or vsync leading to slightly choppy motion.
Overall Rating: 7.0 out of 10 |
No$GBA
Homepage |
v2.2b
for Windows
2 / 4 / 2006
v2.2b
for DOS
2 / 4 / 2006
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No$GBA (pronounced
"No Cash GBA") is a very fast, compatible
and lightweight GameBoy Advance emulator for
Windows
and DOS. This emulator is based on the commercial
project No$GBA Debugger and is intended to be
a freeware version designed specifically for
gaming. No$GBA lacks many extras that one would
expect to find in a modern emulator, such as
graphical filters, but makes up for it in speed,
compatibility, and an astonishingly small file
size. No$GBA also has excellent GameLink support
and is capable of emulating up to 12 GameBoy
Advances. It is also worth noting that this is
one of the only GBA emulators available for DOS,
and by far the best.
Overall Rating: 8.0 out of 10
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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.
AGD
Homepage |
v0.14b
for Windows
8 / 16 / 2001 |
At the moment, AGD
is much more of a debugger than it is an emulator
and as such, we don’t feel it’s fair
to rate it based on emulator criteria. AGD is certainly
geared towards developers more than it is gamers. |
BatGBA
Homepage |
v2.25b
for Windows
7 / 11 / 2002 |
BatGBA is a promising
work in progress, but at the present time compatibility
is somewhat small and sound emulation has a lot
of quarks. The graphical engine however is excellent.
This is certainly an emulator to watch. |
BoycottAdv.
SDL
Homepage |
v0.2.8
R1 for Windows
6 / 21 / 2003 |
This is a version
of Boycott Advance based on the SDL library. This
version requires both the SDL library and DirectX
to run. Although it has a GUI front-end, this is
primarily a command-line driven emulator. At this
point, the emulation isn’t perfect and a lot
of graphical flaws exist within the emulator itself. |
CowByte
Homepage |
VIII
Pre-Alpha 2 for Windows
6 / 28 / 2002
Source
Code (Unkown Ver.)
Date Unknown |
There’s
really not much we can say on this one, seeing as
it would not run on either of our test systems and
according to the included documentation, it’s
doubtful that this emulator can run any commercial
titles.
The author of CowByte has released the source code
to the emulator under the GNU Public License (GPL)
as open-source software. The author has not stated
the version of the source and it's time of release
is unknown. |
RascalBoy
Adv.
Homepage
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v1.2.8.5
for Windows
11 / 13 / 2004 |
RascalBoy is
currently a work-in-progress emulator. Many commercial
games can be emulated on it, but speed and stability
are both seriously in question. This emulator is
also lacking some of the more typical features such
as a full-screen mode and gamepad support. |
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