Game Boy Advance or GBA is a portable video game device manufactured and developed by Nintendo. The game was released in the year 2001 and has today become the front-runner of sprite-based games. It has typical platformers along with a large collection of RPGs in SNES style. GBA has also become popular with the old-school gamers because of the growing number of games being ported from 8 and 16-bit systems, which includes the hugely popular Super Mario games.
You can also download your favorite GBA games on your computers, iPods and iPhones. You just need to follow some simple steps to do this. This article will give you the details on downloading GameBoy advance on your PCs and iPhones in some very easy steps.
How to download GameBoy Advance emulator
You can enjoy your favorite GBA games on your Windows computers or a Mac using a GBA emulator. One of the most popular programs, which emulates GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance games is the Visual Boy Advance Game Emulator. It gives you a very good color and sound and is extremely easy to use.
- The first thing to do will be to download the latest version of the Visual Boy Advance from their website and save it on your desktop.
- Double-click on this file to open the folder containing the file named “VisualBoyAdvance.exe”. Double-click on this file and select “Extract All” to open the Windows Extraction Wizard.
- Now, choose “Next” and ensure that the directory you have selected to save these extracted files is the one that you want to save your files on.
- The next step will be to click on the “Finish” button to open a folder named “VisualBoyAdvance-1.8.0-beta2″ that has the VisualBoyAdvance Emulator application.
- Double-click on the emulator’s icon to open it. Now, drag and drop your games file into this window and it will start to play automatically.
How to download GameBoy Advance on iPod
- The first step is to add the following source in the Installer:
Zodttd.com/repo
Refresh the installer and then go to Install>Games>gpsPhone 1.5.0. Then, download the installer and exit out of it.
- Now, download GBA_bios.bin and put in on your desktop.
- Go to the SSH client and then connect your iPod or iPhone.
- Now that your are connected, drag gba_bios.bin in Applications/gpsPhone and set permissions to 755.
- The next step is to create a folder “ROMs” and put it in var/root/mobile/Media(1.1.3/4). Create another folder inside “ROMs” and name it as “GBA”.
- Now, search for some ROMs on Google and drag them in the GBA folder.
- Go to the Media folder, set permissions for GBA and Rom to 777.
- The last step to download GameBoy Advance is to respring your iPhone or iPod and start playing your games.
How to download GameBoy Advance on computers
You can use online emulators and ROMs to download games on your computer easily. Emulators are nothing but systems that can mimic the functions of other systems.
- The first step is to download the GameBoy emulator by searching on Google for the most appropriate emulator for your PC.
- Now, download ROMs for the Game Boy emulator, which will act as a virtual game cartridge for the virtual GameBoy console. You can find this by searching on Google.
- The next step is to start the emulator and then click “Open” to start playing GameBoy games on your computer.
- The emulator will automatically open the ROM folder, if it was installed correctly
Tips & Warnings for downloading GameBoy Advance
- You will have to download different emulators if you want to play different version of the GameBoy.
- Once you have downloaded the emulator, you can delete the executable file from you hard drive to create free space on your PC.
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