VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance
Original author(s)Forgotten
Developer(s)VBA Team
Stable release
1.7.2 (Windows)
1.7.1 (Linux, BeOS)
1.7.4 (Mac) / May 25, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-05-25)
Preview release
1.8.0 beta 3 / October 1, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-10-01)
Repositorysourceforge.net/projects/vba/
Written inC, C++
Operating systemCross-platform
Size1.4 MB - 1.92 MB
Available inEnglish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish (v.1.7 and above, for Windows only)
TypeConsole emulator
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
VisualBoyAdvance-M
Original author(s)Forgotten et al.
Developer(s)VBA-M Development Team
Stable release
2.1.9[1] / 3 February 2024; 5 months ago (2024-02-03)
Repositorygithub.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeConsole emulator
LicenseGPL-3.0
Websitehttps://www.visualboyadvance-m.org

VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles[2] as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2. It is still downloadable to this day.[3]

Besides the DirectX version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free platform independent graphics library SDL. This is available for a variety of operating systems including Linux,[4] BSD, Mac OS X,[5] and BeOS. VisualBoyAdvance has also been ported to AmigaOS 4, AROS, GameCube, Wii, webOS, and Zune HD.[6]

  1. ^ "Releases ยท visualboyadvance-m/Visualboyadvance-m". GitHub.
  2. ^ "Visual Boy Advance". The Emulator Zone.
  3. ^ "Visual Boy Advance Download - VBA Emulator". Visual Boy Advance. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  4. ^ "VisualBoyAdvance-SDL". The Linux Game Tome. 15 February 2019.
  5. ^ "VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2". Softonic.
  6. ^ "Visual Boy Advance GX". Google Code. 18 February 2022.