mGBA Alternatives

mGBA is described as 'open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 25 alternatives to mGBA for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Web-based apps. The best mGBA alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mGBA are VisualBoyAdvance, OpenEmu, Ares (Formerly Higan / BSNES) and Ludo.

mGBA alternatives are mainly Game Emulators but may also be Game Library Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of mGBA.

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mGBA

Free • Open Source
Game Emulator

mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.

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RetroArch
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
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Blackberry
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OpenPandora
Steam
Raspberry Pi
Playstation
Xbox
143 RetroArch alternatives
RetroArch is a graphical frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players.
- - RetroArch is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to mGBA.
- - RetroArch is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to mGBA.
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RetroArch Features
1. Controller SupportRetroArch supports the use of a controller (XBOX, PlayStation, etc.).
2. Dark ModeRetroArch supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Multi System Emulator
Multiplatform
Emulation
FOSS
Modular System
Gameboy emulation
Variety
Rewind button
VisualBoyAdvance
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Haiku
AmigaOS
MorphOS
29 VisualBoyAdvance alternatives
VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is a free software (GNU GPL) emulator targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.
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VisualBoyAdvance Features
1. PortableVisualBoyAdvance can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Emulation
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.8.0 beta 3, released in October 2005, can be still downloaded from FileHippo
OpenEmu
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
Mac
36 OpenEmu alternatives
Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.
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OpenEmu Features
Multi System Emulator
Access the AppStore
Ares (Formerly Higan / BSNES)
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
51 Ares (Formerly Higan / BSNES) alternatives
Ares, which apparently replaced higan, was formerly known as bsnes. The project was renamed after becoming a multi-system emulator.
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Ares (Formerly Higan / BSNES) Features
1. PortableAres (Formerly Higan / BSNES) can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multi System Emulator
Add a screenshot
Ludo
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
20 Ludo alternatives
Ludo is an Emulator Frontend able to run retro video games. Ludo does not emulate the consoles itself, but does it through emulator plugins called libretro cores. Libretro cores are well known emulators (like Snes9x or Genesis Plus GX or PCSX) stripped from their user interface.
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Ludo Features
1. LightweightLudo consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Emulation
Playstation
Visual Boy Advance-M
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Game Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
12 Visual Boy Advance-M alternatives
VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2.
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Visual Boy Advance-M Features
Gameboy emulation
Mednafen
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
Windows
Linux
29 Mednafen alternatives
Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features. The Atari Lynx, GameBoy (Color), GameBoy Advance, NES, PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16), SuperGrafx, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), PC-FX, and WonderSwan (Color)...
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Mednafen Features
1. PortableMednafen can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multi System Emulator
No$GBA
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Freemium • Proprietary
Game Emulator
Windows
27 No$GBA alternatives
NO$GBA is a Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows. It is capable of running commercial and homebrew Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS games, such as Pokémon Diamond which the latest version is able to run at full speed with no graphical glitches.
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No$GBA Features
NDS support
Remote Debugging
Gameboy emulation
Delta Emulator
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
iPhone
iPad
AltStore
27 Delta Emulator alternatives
The number one Game Boy Advance emulator for iOS is back, and has been rewritten from the ground up for iOS 7.
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MESS
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Game Emulator
Mac
Windows
Linux
100 MESS alternatives
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.
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MESS Features
Emulation
Multi System Emulator
RetriX
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Free • Open Source
Game Emulator
Windows
Windows Mobile
Windows Phone
Xbox
102 RetriX alternatives
RetriX is an emulator front end for UWP, on all the hardware platforms it supports: it serves the same purpose as RetroArch but is built from the ground up to integrate as well as possible with Windows.
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RetriX Features
Windows Compatible
Emulation
Multi System Emulator
Happy Chick
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Android
iPhone
iPad
32 Happy Chick alternatives
Happy Chick emulates more than 18 systems all in one APP, some of the included emulators are FAB/MAME/MAMEPLUS,PS,PSP,FC(NES),SFC(SNES),GBA,GBC,MD,NDS,DC,NGP,WS(WSC),PCE, ONS…etc. More games will be updated in the future...
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Happy Chick Features
Multi System Emulator
Emulation