We do recommend taking a look at modding your own Gameboy Color, it’s a lot of fun, and is very simple to do! Or you can just wait for the Analogue Pocket or snag a Hyperkin Retron Sq instead. So, there you have it, a look at our best Gameboy Color emulators that we have used and tested over the years. This is a variation of the VBA or Visual Boy Advance specifically made for the Mac system. There’s a few that are better than this is many ways, but it’s always good to have an emulator on stand by should something happen to the others on the list.

VisualBoy Advance is reliable, easy to use and very noob friendly, you can save your games, load them, map your keys, playing GBC and GBA plus add those old school cheats that your remember.

Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and now Android and the Raspberry Pi 4. At this time linking is possible only under. Until Nintendo and others start legally selling ROMs themselves, there’s nothing we can do apart from use the ROM’s from they physical games we own, but that’s an article in itself. I found that the lr-GLupeN64 emulator works best for OOT, and I set it up with. VBALink now supports GBA/SP multiplayer link cable emulation and linking of up to 4 gameboy emulators with gba roms. Many retro gamers appreciate open-source emulators because it saves them money, and it supports the “open” nature of emulating old games instead of paying a company who is using this grey area for profit.