Since emulation news sites are pretty dead or very outdated, what's the best GBA/GBx emulator around?
It looks like a lot of people prefer VisualBoy Advance for GBA, and BGB for Game Boy.
For GBA: If you want to run games, use VisualBoyAdvance.
If you want to DEBUG games, use NO$GBA.
Just got VisualBoy Advance-M.
Perfect.
Among the emulation community, one popular opinion is that VBA-M is going to get supplanted by mGBA. mGBA is already faster and more accurate than VBA-M, and endrift is constantly working on it. If she keeps improving it at this rate, mGBA will be the go-to. At least, that's what some people (including me) think about the matter. At the very least, keep your eyes open for mGBA. It's going places.
Currently, Visualboyadvance-M's sound emulation is light years ahead of mGBA.
Dwedit wrote:
Currently, Visualboyadvance-M's sound emulation is light years ahead of mGBA.
For now, but that probably won't be true in a year or two. Especially with the attention endrift devotes to mGBA on any given day. Improving the sound quality is definitely on her TODO list though.
I look forward to seeing more work on mGBA. I see it's written in C (always a fan) and is open source, and there are Linux builds even. This is great. I hope its debugging features match or surpass the set offered by VBA.
I love GEST 1.1.1 in particular, for Game Boy emulation when playing.
Seeing as this is a debugging/dev forum I absolutely recommend NO$GMB for GB/SGB and NO$GBA debugger for GBA, it's very helpful and Martin documented nearly everything about the GBA.
I generally use NO$GBA for gba playing because the screen is faded out on it, compared to any other GBA emu it looks better, because the colour isn't so bright.