Are you one of those video game lovers who still can't get over the launch of the Game Boy Advance? Well, you should know that we have many applications that allow us to replicate the entertainment experience without having physical consoles. One of the emulators we can recommend in these cases is mGBA, so let's analyze its main features.

mGBA is an emulation program specially developed so that from any computer Windows, we can access many of the best games published for the console Game Boy Advance. And since it has been in continuous development for several years, it has undoubtedly become one of the best exponents of its segment, so you should not miss it.

How it works

The first thing that stands out about the experience of mGBA is its enormous compatibility with the vast majority of Game Boy Advance games, which is crucial when deciding between one emulator and another. If we add that its system resource consumption is minimal, then we can be sure that it meets the two basic requirements to think about taking advantage of it.

Of course, you must remember that mGBA is one of those emulators that do not have the games integrated with the system at the time of installation, but the choice of titles and launching them will be up to you. In effect, you have to look for the ROMs of Game Boy Advance that can be found on the web, and luckily there are many of them, and run them directly from this service.

Although we could say that mGBA is similar to many other emulators in terms of manually looking for the ROMs, we appreciate that the way the games are organized is much better. To give you an idea of what we said, you have to know that this software provides a Games folder, inside which we can add all the titles. So as not to lose them on the disk of our PC.

Something that we liked about mGBA is that when we are playing a game, and we have some urgency or reason for which we must leave it immediately, it adds the possibility of saving it at that moment so as not to lose the progress. Considering that here we are not going to have any other method of saving the objectives that we achieve, it seems that this is a relevant issue.

As a curious element, to call it somehow, we have found that mGBA allows us to generate files of type GIF from our games. Just as you hear it, in the Audio/Video tab, you will notice that you can perform this action.

The user interface of mGBA seems to us not only one of the best in terms of Game Boy Advance emulators, but we could safely say that it is one of the best considering all the emulators in the world. It is not only because it is fully translated into many languages, which is a giant step for most novice users that don't understand English, but also because of the organization of its functions in tabs, etc.

Keep in mind

Although mGBA requires us to go through the traditional installation process to enjoy its functions, it also allows us to generate a portable version of the program once installed. This can be extremely useful, especially if you want to take several of your favorite Game Boy Advance games and portable them on an external storage unit to use later where you prefer.

The Best

Among the many positive features of mGBA, if we had to stay with some, we would speak without any doubt about the compatibility with the vast majority of the Game Boy Advance titles available in ROMs. And, of course, the ability to save games and not lose the progress achieved also seems excellent.

The worst

Here we are going to be precise. For some users, it may be a defect of mGBA, the fact of not having the games integrated, but if we consider that most of the good emulators of almost all consoles depend on the ROMs, then there is nothing to criticize it.

Rating

Overall, we are convinced that mGBA is one of the best Game Boy Advance emulators, if not venture to say that it is the best. It contains every one of the functions that we could expect; being translated into many languages makes it very intuitive even for the most inexperienced, and it also has many additional tools that delight the most curious.