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GBA.emu vs VisualBoyAdvance-M

GBA.emu

explusalpha.com

VisualBoyAdvance-M

visualboyadvance-m.org

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FigureGBA.emuVisualBoyAdvance-M
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
AndroidYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Game Boy Advance Emulators6.3 (#28)7.9 (#11)

Plans

GBA.emu

  • Google Play editionPriced on request

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VisualBoyAdvance-M

  • VisualBoyAdvance-MFree

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GBA.emu

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VisualBoyAdvance-M

VisualBoyAdvance-M is a free, open-source emulator for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance. Builds are listed for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, with Android nightlies for arm, arm64, riscv, and x86_64. The project lists Windows XP and later, macOS, and Linux among desktop requirements; Linux distributions may package it under visualboyadvance-m or vbam. Game Boy and Game Boy Advance linking is enabled by default. Build options also include Vulkan video output, Windows Direct3D support, and FFmpeg audio and video recording. A debugger is enabled by default, and Lua scripting is available for the wxWidgets port. The project provides a Libretro core option and nightly builds for Libretro. Graphics upscaling is supported, but the project cautions that xBRZ and ScaleFX may not run on older or weaker systems. The license is GPL-2.0. For support, the project points users to Discord and suggests trying Help → Factory Reset when issues occur.

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