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24 alternatives to GoGBA

GBA emulator

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1GJ
   GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript▲76

   2012 · jpfau.github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   GBA Emulator▲5

   The Best Emulator for Pokémon GBA Adventures

   Nov 2025 · gba-emu.org · its alternatives →

3. 3GB
   Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld▲274

   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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   GoGBA

   The cleanest, most powerful GBA console in your pocket.

   Apr 2026 · gogba.xyz · its alternatives →

5. 5AR
   A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time▲2,690

   Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing

   2019 · internalregister.github.io · its alternatives →

6. 6GJ
   GameTime – JS emulator supporting SNES and GBA▲12

   2015 · matthewbauer.us · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Delta▲245

   The first Gameboy emulator approved in the App Store

   2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   GBAEmu▲4

   A local-first GBA emulator for iPhone

   Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   GBA4iOS▲76

   Game Boy Advance, meet iOS. Again.

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    LuaGB – A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua▲136

    A gameboy emulator written in pure Lua. Work in progress. - zeta0134/LuaGB

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    GameTime Player▲3

    A web based emulator supporting SNES and GBA roms

    2015 · matthewbauer.us · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Playdate▲588

    A new handheld gaming system from Panic

    2019 · play.date · its alternatives →

13. 13
    GB Studio▲159

    A free and easy to use game creator for the GameBoy

    2019 · gbstudio.dev · its alternatives →

14. 14
    GPemu – A Chrome App to play SNES games▲29

    2015 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console▲406

    Adventures in hardware hacking, low-level software, FPGAs, and more!

    2019 · craigjb.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Simple Gameboy Emulator▲82

    Contribute to sacert/Gameboy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Delta Emulator▲68

    Best Emulator for playing retro games on iOS

    2022 · freeonlinegames.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Streaming Raspberry Pi games to a Game Boy Advance▲165

    📡 Stream Raspberry Pi games to a GBA via Link Cable. - afska/gba-remote-play

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Browser Based Nintendo Switch GBA Emulator▲6

    Browser based Nintendo Switch GBA Emulator. Contribute to itsbjoern/switch-gba development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Electa.bz▲66

    A Pokémon squad builder for Ultra Sun/Moon

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy▲260

    2014 · bonsaiden.github.io · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Ghidra Plays Mario▲207

    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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    RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player▲238

    RomM is a self-hosted app that allows you to manage your retro game files (ROMs) and play them in the browser. Think of it as Plex or Jellyfin for your ROM library: it automatically fetches metadata, artwork, and game information from online metadata sources to transform your folders into a browsable collection. You can play games directly in the browser for consoles like the N64, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation 1, using the integrated web emulator (https://emulatorjs.org/). Members of the community have released integrations for Playnite (Windows), muOS…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux▲6

    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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