Nostalgia.GBA (GBA Emulator)

Nostalgia.GBA is a high quality GBA emulator

Nostalgia.GBA is a high quality Game Boy Advance emulator delivering a modern, user-friendly interface combined with powerful features. It supports highly customizable virtual controllers, allowing you to adjust button size and placement to your preference. Save and load game progress easily with multiple manual slots featuring screenshots, plus an autosave slot. Share your save states across devices with simple sharing options via Bluetooth, email, or Skype.

Experience advanced gameplay features such as rewinding gameplay to correct mistakes, turbo buttons for faster action, and full hardware keyboard and Bluetooth gamepad support. The emulator utilizes hardware accelerated graphics and provides high-quality 44100 Hz stereo sound. Play your GBA games from ZIP or GBA files located anywhere on your device storage. Nostalgia.GBA is ad-supported but ensures no ads interfere during gameplay, creating an uninterrupted gaming experience. Note that no games are included and should be provided separately.

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By:: Nostalgia Emulators
Downloads:: 754,981+ 1.65K
Rating:: 4.42
(6,754) 12 new ratings
Version:: 2.5.6 (Last updated: 2024-10-31)
Version code:: 1016
Creation date:: 2019-10-29
Permissions:: android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD
android.permission.INTERNET
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.VIBRATE
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID
Size:: 6.82M
Email:: no*****@lanik-mt.eu
URLs:: Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Google Play Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 71,024 ▼ 8

User reviews

Nostalgia.GBA is praised for its smooth, lag-free emulation, absence of intrusive ads, and strong save state functionality. Users appreciate the customizable layouts and the ethical free-to-use model. However, multiple reviews highlight issues after recent updates including lost ROMs and save files, landscape mode layout bugs, and problematic controller support. The app lacks link cable support and difficulties with save file management affect user experience. Despite these concerns, it remains one of the best free GBA emulators with room for improvement in stability and features.

Pros

Runs smoothly and emulates Game Boy Advance games effectively with little to no lag.
No intrusive ads during gameplay; ads only appear as small banners in the menu, making for an ethical advertising approach.
Supports multiple save states and autosaves, allowing users to resume where they left off.
Customizable button layouts and smooth touch controls enhance user experience.
The free version has many features, with a pro version available to unlock further options without subscriptions or microtransactions.

Cons

Recent updates have caused issues with ROMs disappearing without warning and loss of saved configurations.
Customization for button layouts does not properly save or apply in landscape mode, causing inconvenience.
Controller support has problems, including button mapping errors and unreliable detection, especially with some hardware controllers.
Lack of features such as link cable support prevents multiplayer trading or link functionality, which some users find limiting.
Save files are not easily transferable or compatible with other emulators, complicating modding or cross-emulator usage.

Recent reviews

Amazing Emulator, better than most. Compñeteñy functional without having to pay or watch ads speaking of ads there are non during gameplay. Some suggestions though are that you allow the user to rename the games as sometimes they just have a string of numbers for a name. You could also allow us to be able to delete dome games as I've loaded fsulty roms and they're just sitting there confusing me with which is which. (Due to number names) But overall incredible app with little to no problems.

Maddox Tolentino, 2024-12-22

Works out of the box with no lag when playing roms. No pop up ads or banners during gameplay itself, in fact the only ads you'll see are during the rom selection menu and that's on the absolute bottom of the screen in a very small banner. I normally don't do reviews but the developer deserves to be praised for their app and their ethical advertising practices.