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About VisualBoyAdvance-M
VisualBoyAdvance-M carries on development of the VisualBoyAdvance emulator. It plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games on the desktop. Windows builds are offered for x86_64, 32-bit x86 and ARM64, alongside a macOS build and a Flathub package for Linux.
The most recent stable release is 2.1.11 from September 2024. Nightly builds are published more often, and in August 2026 they added Android builds for ARM, ARM64, RISC-V and x86_64.
Strengths
- Covers Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance in one program
- Windows builds for x86, x64 and ARM64
- Linux package on Flathub
- Nightly builds between stable releases
Limitations
- Last stable release was in September 2024
- Android support is only in nightly builds so far
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Developer
- The VisualBoyAdvance-M contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Playing Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games on a desktop computer
- Categories
- Emulators
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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VisualBoyAdvance-M as an alternative
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