MESS emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system.

BoycottAdvance is described as 'Free and portable emulator for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance handheld. Program is available on Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD and there is even a Java port, playable online' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 25 alternatives to BoycottAdvance for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best BoycottAdvance alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BoycottAdvance are VisualBoyAdvance, Delta Emulator, mGBA and Visual Boy Advance-M.
MESS emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system.

A front-end or user interface (UI) is the presentation and interaction layer of an app or website. Most modern emulator apps have basic game list UIs that you can interact with using a mouse/keyboard but not a game controller.
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Folium is a beautifully designed, high performing multi-system emulator that allows you to play video games from retro consoles and handhelds, currently including cores for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS



Folium is the most popular commercial alternative to BoycottAdvance.
DroidEmu is a game system to play SNES, NES, GameBoy Advanced, GameBoy/Color, SEGA GameGear, SEGA Genesis games on your Android phone. It runs thousands of games at full speed.



iDeaS is a plugin-based Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows and Linux, using the GTK+ toolkit.




My Boy! is an emulator to run GameBoy Advance games on the broadest range of Android devices, from very low-end phones to modern tablets. It emulates nearly all aspects of the real hardware correctly.




KiGB is the most accurate and free portable emulator for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy for Windows, Linux and MS-DOS.




John GBA is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to BoycottAdvance.
gpSPhone is a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It has been ported by ZodTTD from the original source code of gpSP (made by Exophase). They are now both working together on this project.



