NOTE: There's a huge ACE vulnerability affecting VBA and most of its forks, except for VBA-M.
MAME Has a gba driver markup as working but both graphics and sound are "imperfect". higan Its GBA core is cycle-accurate as of v095, but it is behind in terms of performance compared to mGBA and VBA-M. gpSP-J has superior compatibility, while gpSPmod has more options for customization (full screen, cheats, etc). There are, however, two forks of interest: gpSPmod, and gpSP-J. A bit less accurate in some respects, but fixes a few games such as Advance Wars 2. VBA-Next A RetroArch fork from an older revision of VBA-M with added speedhacks and tweaks, making it useful for lower-end devices. It is behind in terms of accuracy and performance compared to mGBA. Visual Boy Advance-M (VBA-M) A fork with additional improvements. Discovered to have an ACE vulnerability detailed below. Visual Boy Advance (VBA) The original GBA emulator.
It currently does not have an official Android build. It's actively developed and has features VBA-M lacks such as a Tilt Sensor, and more recently Game Boy Camera support. For its accuracy, it's gradually becoming the best at that. RetroArch).Ĭomparisons mGBA Aims for accuracy, speed, and features.
Simply select the ROM files in Finder and drag them into the OpenEmu window. With OpenEmu, you can build an independently-maintained library of ROMs on your hard drive.
You can use the “Open With …” menu to open a ROM file with the correct emulator.įor ROMs packaged as ZIP files, you’ll need to unzip them before you can apply this method. If the association isn’t working properly with your emulator, don’t fear. OpenEmu will automatically grab all the common ROM file extensions, so you can simply double-click on ROMs in Finder to launch the associated games. Some emulators will automatically assign the appropriate file extensions, while others will not. If you try and double-click on a ROM file to open it, you might find that nothing happens. Depending on the system you’re using, there are a few different ways to launch your game. Once you have the ROMs and emulators downloaded, you can actually play retro games on macOS.
So don’t worry about finding macOS-compatible ROMs, since such a thing doesn’t exist. As far as the ROM is concerned, the emulator is the operating system. Note that ROMs themselves don’t care about your operating system. A number of torrent trackers include ROM downloads for a variety of systems, typically packaging hundreds of games together in one torrent. However, ROMs can still be found in the same places you might pirate other copyrighted content.