mGBA
mGBA is an open-source modern Game Boy Advance emulator under active development that also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. As of yet, it's the most complete GBA emulation effort and is also available as a libretro core on RetroArch.
Last Stable Release:
0.10.2
Dated:
24-04-2023
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Windows: Vista+
Mac: 10.7 (Lion)+
Linux: Ubuntu (64-bit) 16.04 / 18.04 / 19.04 / 19.10
Other Platforms: Nintendo 3DS / Switch / Wii, PlayStation Vita
SkyEmu
SkyEmu is a low level GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Game Boy Advance and DS emulator. Its primary focus is to provide a good user experience through a good mixture of tradeoffs of accuracy, performance, features and usability...
Highly accurate Game Boy Advanced emulation
Game Boy and Game Boy Color Emulation
Experimental Nintendo DS support (only capable of running homebrew currently)
Cross Platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web App (with touch screen controls for iOS and Android)
Game Controller and Rumble Support with configureable keybinds
4x Save Slots with screenshot preview
Game fastforward and rewind support (supporting very long rewind times)
Support for emulating the Real Time Clock
CPU, MMIO, and Memory Debuggers
Dark and Light Themes
Support for loading official BIOSs dumps
Last Stable Release:
v3
Dated:
14-08-2023
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No Minimum specifications indicated
VBA-M
Visual Boy Advance - Merge (VBA-M) is a fork of the inactive open-source emulator Visual Boy Advance. It mainly targets Game Boy, Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance though somewhat offers emulation for Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2. While supporting all previous features, it adds Link-cable emulation between GBA gamepacks, Joylink GCN/GBA emulation, e-Reader(still in development), etc. It has a very good accuracy level and is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, BeOS, GameCube and Wii.
Last Stable Release:
2.1.7
Dated:
11-09-2023
UniPCemu
UniPCemu (Universal PC emulator) is a cycle-accurate x86 emulator (previously called x86EMU).
It's a 8086(IBM PC) up to Pentium II (Compaq Deskpro 386, Compaq Deskpro 386 with PS/2 mouse (adds PS/2 mouse to the Compaq Deskpro 386 chipset, optional BIOS ROM replacement (loading it instead, or alternatively a i430fx Pentium or i440fx Pentium Pro/Pentium II chipset with PS/2 mouse) and seperate CMOS settings like the other architectures) emulator(with various, configurable hardware), with up to 80386 timings (80486SX and Pentium using 80386 timings or 1 cycle for newer/unknown timings/instructions, both having no floating point unit)).
It can run many IBM PC XT games, and also various 286(*) up to Pentium II games. Support for ATAPI CD-ROM (using VIDE-CDD.SYS, OAKCDROM.SYS or compatible ATAPI drivers) also works. Many graphics cards and sound cards can be used (MIDI using a Soundfont renderer inside UniPCemu (recordable by UniPCemu's sound recording functionality) or passthrough(passthrough on Windows only, which is not recordable by the emulator's own recording functionality)), from PC speaker up to Sound Blaster 2.0 and from IBM Monochrome Display Adapter up to ET4000/W32 SVGA(up to 16M colors (in True Color mode) using it's SC15025 DAC).
EMS is available using the Lo-tech 2MB EMS board on the XT and various EMM emulation software(e.g. JEMM386, EMM386) on IBM AT and up.
Very impotant to follow the Getting Started link and installations intructions manual.
Last Stable Release:
Dated:
higan
higan is a multi-system emulator that began development on 15 years ago! Consoles include but are not limited to Nintendo Famicom, Nintendo Super Famicom, Super Game Boy / BS-X Satellaview / Sufami Turbo, Nintendo Game Boy / Color / Advance, Sega Master System / Game Gear / Mega Drive, NEC PC Engine / NEC SuperGrafx, Bandai WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color and much more!
Last Stable Release:
110
Dated:
25-07-2020
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Windows: 7+
Linux: 3.2+
MacOS: 10.7+
FreeBSD: 10.0+
No$GBA
No$GBA is currently the fastest working GBA emulator, though not the most accurate on GBA and even less on DS. It supports multiplayer and is able to load multiple GBA/NDS ROM files for linking games.
Last Stable Release:
3.05
Dated:
23-08-2021
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Windows: Doesn't mention minimum
Also available on DOS