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24 alternatives to GoGBA
The cleanest, most powerful GBA console in your pocket.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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- 2GJ
2012 · jpfau.github.com · its alternatives →
- 3GB
Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…
2025 · eli.lipsitz.net · its alternatives →
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Delta▲245The first Gameboy emulator approved in the App Store
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Analogue Pocket ▲182A modern hand-held for playing old GameBoy gamees
2019 · analogue.co · its alternatives →
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The Best Emulator for Pokémon GBA Adventures
Nov 2025 · gba-emu.org · its alternatives →
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GB Studio▲159A free and easy to use game creator for the GameBoy
2019 · gbstudio.dev · its alternatives →
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This week, car projects, evil connected devices & the Switch
2016 · media24.fireside.fm · its alternatives →
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I recently dug my Nintendo GameCube out of storage to revisit the first Animal Crossing game. Things were mostly as I remembered, but the game's heavy reliance on a clunky on-screen keyboard quickly wore my patience thin. Unwilling to accept this subpar experience, I did what any rational person would do and ordered a rare, Japan-exclusive, keyboard/controller hybrid on eBay, then used a Raspberry Pi Pico to 1. listen for keypresses and 2. send simulated controller events to the GameCube, automating typing in Animal Crossing at a Tool-Assisted Speedrun level. Of course, this oddball…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This week, Grand Tour, NES Classic and macOS automation
2016 · media.fireside.fm · its alternatives →
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I've been exploring new ways of testing Ghidra processor modules. In this repo, I was able to emulate NES ROMs in Ghidra to test its 6502 specification, which resulted in finding and fixing some bugs. Context: Ghidra is used for reverse engineering binary executables, complementing the usual disassembly view with function decompilation. Each supported architecture has a SLEIGH specification, which provides semantics for parsing and emulating instructions, not unlike the dispatch handlers you would find in interpreters written for console emulators. Emulator devs have long had extensive test…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GOG Galaxy▲93Truly gamer friendly, DRM-free online gaming platform.
2015 · gog.com · its alternatives →
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rom is a ~5k-line C libretro frontend that plays games in the terminal. It renders native pixels with the kitty graphics protocol in Ghostty or kitty, inline! even in tmux! Nine platforms: SNES, NES, GB/GBC, GBA, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, Doom/Heretic/Hexen, Wolfenstein. macOS and Linux, MIT. https://github.com/jhickner/rom
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This week, Nintendo Switch details, iPhone birthday and more
2017 · media24.fireside.fm · its alternatives →
- 20GJ
2015 · matthewbauer.us · its alternatives →
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2015 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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📡 Stream Raspberry Pi games to a GBA via Link Cable. - afska/gba-remote-play
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Best Emulator for playing retro games on iOS
2022 · freeonlinegames.com · its alternatives →
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A gameboy emulator written in pure Lua. Work in progress. - zeta0134/LuaGB
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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