Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

VisualBoyAdvance is described as '(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' and is a very popular Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 25 alternatives to VisualBoyAdvance for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best VisualBoyAdvance alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VisualBoyAdvance are Lemuroid, Delta Emulator, mGBA and OpenEmu.

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.











A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum.




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.
![Dolphin (Wii, Gamecube, Virtual Console) [Linux, macOS, & Windows]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_980398_full.png)
![Cemu (Wii U) [Windows & Linux* using Wine]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_762210_full.png)
![Yuzu (Switch) [Linux & Windows]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_785449_full.png)
![Citra (3DS) [Linux, macOS, & Windows]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_509961_full.png)
Utility that lets you preview a wide variety of retro games across many different platforms, serving to display graphics and gameplay showcases.


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

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



The CD-i emulator program (cdiemu) provides a fairly complete emulation of the hardware of an actual physical CD-i player.




BoycottAdvance is a 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.




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.