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Editor’s Choice emulators stand out for delivering a gaming experience unrivaled by any other emulators on their platform. Emulators in this category are professionally reviewed by our staff and are the recommended starting point for most gamers.
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Recommended emulators provide good compatibility, performance and stability. Emulators in this category are suitable for gaming.
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Boycott Advance was one of the first GameBoy Advance emulators developed. It has a 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 which causes somewhat choppy motion and tearing.
v0.2.8 for Windows (5/16/2003)
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No$GBA (pronounced "No Cash GBA") is a very fast, compatible and lightweight GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator for Windows and DOS. This emulator is based on the commercial project No$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.
*Note: The current version of No$GBA is only available via donation to the author. The public freeware version is one version behind the current release. Please see the author's website for more information.
v2.6a for Windows (1/23/2008)*
v2.6 for Windows (1/23/2008)
v2.6a for DOS (1/23/2008)*
v2.6 for DOS (1/23/2008)
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VBA-M
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VBA-M is a multi-platform Gameboy and Gameboy Advance emulator based on VisualBoy Advance. The purpose of VBA-M is to incorporate the many fixes and new features from the various VBA forks into a single build. Compared to the original VisualBoy Advance, compatibility has been improved dramatically and several new features have been implemented.
v947 for Windows (7/1/2010)
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Other Emulators
Emulators in this category are generally considered early in development or have not reached a level of compatibility, performance and stability that would be suitable for gaming. These emulators are considered works-in-progress.
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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.
v0.14b for Windows (8/16/2001)
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BatGBA is a promising work in progress, but at the present time compatibility is somewhat low and sound emulation has a lot of quarks. The graphics engine however is excellent.
v2.25b for Windows (7/11/2002)
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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.
v0.2.8 R1 for Windows (6/21/2003)
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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 games other than some homebrew demos.
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.
VIII Pre-Alpha 2 for Windows (6/28/2002)
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RascalBoy is currently a work-in-progress emulator. Many 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.
v1.3.0.0 for Windows (2/10/2006)
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Gebea
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Gebea is a relatively new Gameboy Advance opens-source emulator for Windows. Gebea currently lacks audio support, gamepad support, does not support some CPU and video instructions and exhibits some stability issues. This emulator is unique in that features a plugin-based system, allowing other developers to easily contribute to it.
Release 12 for Windows (2/2/2006)
Release 10 Source Code (1/31/2005)
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- 1.8GHz Single Core Processor
- Mid-Range Dedicated Video
- 1GB of RAM
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