GBA is an excellent Gaming console developed by the Nintendo team, and games like Pokemon Emerald are worth playing and enjoying even today. Now, GBA isn't widely available, but you can still enjoy GBA Classic games like Pokemon, and Legend of Zelda by directly using the GBA emulators with the Game ROMs. In this article, we cover the Best GBA emulators for Mac OS X, which you can use it with any GBA Game ROMs to play GBA games on MacBook Pro, iMac mini, etc
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Top 3 Best GBA Game Boy Advance Emulators for Mac OS X
GBA Emulator # 1 – mGBA
Popular Emulators. GBA Emulators (19) NDS Emulators (22) PSX Emulators (33) PSP Emulators (9) PS2 Emulators (14). Mac OS X Nintendo Wii Nokia PSP Windows Xbox One. OpenEmu is about to change the world of video game emulation. One console at a time. For the first time, the 'It just works' philosophy now extends to open source video game emulation on the Mac. With OpenEmu, it is extremely easy to add, browse, organize and with a compatible gamepad, play those favorite games (ROMs) you already own.
mGBA is perhaps the best Game Boy Advance emulator for Mac OS X. It can easily play any GBA Game ROMs on your Mac OS X as well as you can even load Custom Bios too.
mGBA is actively developed, and hence it works on latest Mac OS X versions such as Sierra & El Capitan too. After, downloading the emulator Zip file, simply control-click + open it to execute the emulator. Some other USP of mGBA are –
Gameboy ADVANCE Emulators for Mac OS X. Nintendo GameBoy Advance (GBA Emulators) GameBoy Advance is an installment from Nintendo which followed the earlier versions of GameBoy and GameBoy Color. This is a portable game console and runs under a more powerful bit processor compared to the versions that came before it. An emulator is used when the need arises to use particular hardware to play software meant for other hardware. For example, for the Mac users, not many games are available for the Mac OS, but, with the use of an emulator, a lot many games can be played on Mac. The flexibility of emulators has given rise to some software which can be played on it. This is a GameBoy Advance emulator for macOS. VBA-M or also known as VisualBoyAdvance-M is a Mac OS X and Windows emulator for Game Boy Advance. It is abandoned emulation project even though there are some recent news from the developer/s for further development on their homepage.
- Joystick & USB GamePad controller support
- Save & Reload your Game States
- Multiplayer support
- Sound Emulation
GBA Emulator # 2 – Open Emu
Open Emu is yet another feature-rich alternative Game Boy Advance emulator for OS X. The Best thing about Open Emu is it acts as an interface for multiple gaming console emulators.
Thus, using a single Open Emu, you can download multiple cores to emulate GBA, GBC, NES, and even Atari systems. Hence, a single Open Emu program can run GBA games, NES games, and even Other gaming console games too
But, since it has a few extra features, Open Emu can be at times very unstable and may close unexpectedly. Just click on 'ReOpen' to relaunch Open Emu in the previous running state.
Plus, the additional support for screen recording & Joystick support make it a sweet all-in-one emulator for all your gaming needs, so you need not download separate emulators for each gaming console type.
GBA Emulator # 3 – BoyCott Advance GBA Emulator Mac
mGBA is perhaps the best Game Boy Advance emulator for Mac OS X. It can easily play any GBA Game ROMs on your Mac OS X as well as you can even load Custom Bios too.
mGBA is actively developed, and hence it works on latest Mac OS X versions such as Sierra & El Capitan too. After, downloading the emulator Zip file, simply control-click + open it to execute the emulator. Some other USP of mGBA are –
Gameboy ADVANCE Emulators for Mac OS X. Nintendo GameBoy Advance (GBA Emulators) GameBoy Advance is an installment from Nintendo which followed the earlier versions of GameBoy and GameBoy Color. This is a portable game console and runs under a more powerful bit processor compared to the versions that came before it. An emulator is used when the need arises to use particular hardware to play software meant for other hardware. For example, for the Mac users, not many games are available for the Mac OS, but, with the use of an emulator, a lot many games can be played on Mac. The flexibility of emulators has given rise to some software which can be played on it. This is a GameBoy Advance emulator for macOS. VBA-M or also known as VisualBoyAdvance-M is a Mac OS X and Windows emulator for Game Boy Advance. It is abandoned emulation project even though there are some recent news from the developer/s for further development on their homepage.
- Joystick & USB GamePad controller support
- Save & Reload your Game States
- Multiplayer support
- Sound Emulation
GBA Emulator # 2 – Open Emu
Open Emu is yet another feature-rich alternative Game Boy Advance emulator for OS X. The Best thing about Open Emu is it acts as an interface for multiple gaming console emulators.
Thus, using a single Open Emu, you can download multiple cores to emulate GBA, GBC, NES, and even Atari systems. Hence, a single Open Emu program can run GBA games, NES games, and even Other gaming console games too
But, since it has a few extra features, Open Emu can be at times very unstable and may close unexpectedly. Just click on 'ReOpen' to relaunch Open Emu in the previous running state.
Plus, the additional support for screen recording & Joystick support make it a sweet all-in-one emulator for all your gaming needs, so you need not download separate emulators for each gaming console type.
GBA Emulator # 3 – BoyCott Advance GBA Emulator Mac
There was a real competition between Visual Boy Advance-M & BoyCott Advance to be in the third position on our list.
But BoyCott Advance edged ahead as it provided a speedy emulation while Visual Boy Advance didn't work on Sierra.
BoyCott Advance is a very light-weight Game Boy Advance Emulator which will emulate GBA Games with proper anti-aliasing smoothing techniques and good sound. [1.2 MB only!]
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Plus you can download its inbuilt-emulator enhancer too which will even enable support for USB Joysticks and full-screen view support too.
So, these are the Best GBA or Game Boy Advance emulators for Mac OS X which will let you enjoy your favorite Game Boy Advance games for free on Mac OS X, with the joystick or gamepad support. In case if you face any difficulties or have any queries feel free to let us know.
Hi Tommy, In order to assist you better , may i know which Mac OS X version are you using. As in our tests mGBA performed the best!
GBC or Game Boy Color is one of the earliest consoles developed by Nintendo in the Game Boy series, thought the Game Boy Color was replaced later by the Game Boy Advanced, but its games such as Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Violet edition are still not replaceable. So here are the Top 3 Best Game Boy Color Emulators for Mac OS X.
Top 3 Free Game Boy Color GBC for Mac OS X to Play Game Boy Color Games on Mac OS X
Create iso mac sierra. GBC Emulator # 1 – KiGB
KiGB is one of the lightest and fastest Game Boy Color emulator for Mac OS X. Some of the Salient features of KiGB are –
- Only 1.92 mB in size, really small and quick.
- KiGB can play normal Gameboy games too , hence it can also be used as Gameboy emulator for Mac.
- External gamepads too can be connected via Emulator enhancer plugin.
- Saves game freeze – defrosting [which equals saving your game 🙂 ]
GBC Emulator # 2 – Open Emu
Not as quick as KiGB but Open Emu is definitely more feature rich than KiGB. The Open Emu GB emulator has some salient features such as –
- More colorful emulation as compared to KiGB
- Direct Plug and Play external Gamepad joystick support
- Ability to Load & Save gamestates.
GBC Emulator # 3 – Retro Arch
Retro Arch is sort of an all-in-one which has all emulation of all the retro gaming consoles. But since it tries to do too many things at the same time, it's pretty unstable, however considering it has GBC Emulation support, and all the Retro gaming consoles too, along with gamepad support. It's a good try if you are a pure retro games explorer.
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Note – None of the above emulators come with the Game Boy or Game Boy Color games or game ROMs as they are known. The Game ROMs are copyright of the game owners, however, a simple search of the game name ROM will get you the game which can loaded and played inside the emulators.
