Linux users can also download source versions for compiling from here, or by checking their distribution’s repositories for the binaries. You can now run VBA at any time by double clicking this program. ZIP from the downloads page and move the executable file you find inside to a location of your choice. I’ll be testing the Windows version of the Gameboy Advance emulator here, which is easy enough to setup. Development may have ceased a few years ago but VBA is still available, still serviceable and 100% free! These handhelds might be dusty, broken and out of batteries by now - but luckily you can now enjoy every original, Color and Advance game on your PC with Visual Boy Advance (VBA). The Game Boy Advance stepped up in 2001 with a couple of extra buttons, better graphics and sound, racking up just over 80 million sales of all versions produced. The numbers are impressive - the original console, Game Boy Pocket and Color shifted nearly 120 million units in total worldwide before being retired. Nintendo’s Game Boy tore up the market and proved its worth as a successor to the popular Game and Watch handheld upon initial release in 1989.
