CoolROM.com's Mac emulator information and download page for KiGB (Gameboy Advance / Color).

Advertisement Nintendo’s Game Boy tore up the market and proved its worth as a successor to the popular Game and Watch handheld upon initial release in 1989. The numbers are impressive – the original console, Game Boy Pocket and Color shifted nearly 120 million units in total worldwide before being retired. The Game Boy Advance stepped up in 2001 with a couple of extra buttons, better graphics and sound, racking up just over 80 million sales of all versions produced.

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These handhelds might be dusty, broken and out of batteries by now – but luckily you can now enjoy every original, Color and Advance game on your PC with Visual Boy Advance (VBA). Development may have ceased a few years ago but VBA is still available, still serviceable and 100% free! Grab Your Version I’ll be testing the Windows version of the Gameboy Advance emulator here, which is easy enough to setup. Simply download the.ZIP from the downloads page and move the executable file you find inside to a location of your choice. You can now run VBA at any time by double clicking this program.

Linux users can also download source versions for compiling, or by checking their distribution’s repositories for the binaries. The most up-to-date Mac OS X version I found lives, although older versions are hosted on the official downloads page too.

Is a fork of the (now discontinued) VBA, although amongst the changes are UI tweaks so if you’re following this vanilla guide, things won’t quite look the same. Those of you with a As well as being a fun and accessible console system, the Nintendo Wii has racked up quite a collection of games over its lifespan and now, thanks to the wonders of emulation and Dolphin, you. May be interested in a fork of VBA-M that works on their consoles,. There’s even a!

Features, UI & Games First up, I’m using version 1.7.2 on Windows here – not one of the more recently updated forks. The reason for this is that the emulator works painlesslly as it is, and if all you’re interested in is a quick game of Tetris or Dr Mario then it’s unlikely you’ll need much else. Support is extensive – original Game Boy (*.GB), Game Boy Color (*.GBC) and titles optimized to use the Super Game Boy adapter are all present, as well as GBA (*.GBA) titles too. As is the golden rule with all our emulation articles, I can’t tell you where to find ROMs, and I must add that downloading ROMs that you do not rightfully own is technically stealing. Of course, if you’ve got a box of cartridges in the attic and nothing to do with them, ROMs are the answer. If you’re really stuck and can’t find your childhood classics try a few, but remember the legal stuff. The emulator itself is fairly straight forward, albeit with a lot of extra options that you’ll probably never mess with.