Visual Boy Advance

VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is an emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.[1]

Besides the DirectX version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free platform independent graphics library SDL. This is available for a variety of operating systems like Linux,[2] BSD, Mac OS X,[3] Xbox[4], and BeOS. VisualBoyAdvance has also been ported to GameCube and Wii[5].

As of 2008, VisualBoyAdvance is the most popular such emulator for Windows. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, VisualBoyAdvance is free software.