Editing VisualBoyAdvance (section)

{{Short description|Emulator for the Game Boy handheld game consoles}}
{{Infobox software
| name = VisualBoyAdvance
| logo = [[Image:VisualBoyAdvance.png|64px|VisualBoyAdvance icon]]
| author = Forgotten (alias)
| developer = VBA Team
| latest_release_version = 1.7.2 (''Windows'') <br />1.7.1 (''Linux, BeOS'') <br />1.7.4 (''Mac'')
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]]
| latest_preview_version = 1.8.0 beta 3
| latest_release_date = {{Release date and age|2004|5|25}}
| latest_preview_date = {{Release date and age|2005|10|1}}
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = [[Video game console emulator|Console emulator]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| size = 1.4 MB - 1.92 MB
| language = English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish (''v.1.7 and above, for Windows only'')
| repo = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/vba/}}
}}
{{Infobox software
| name = VisualBoyAdvance-M
| logo = [[Image:VisualBoyAdvance.png|64px|VisualBoyAdvance icon]]
| author = Forgotten et al.
| developer = VBA-M Development Team
| latest_release_version = 2.1.11<ref>{{cite web | url=https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m/releases | title=Releases · visualboyadvance-m/Visualboyadvance-m | website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>
| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2024|09|15|df=yes}}
| latest_preview_version = 
| latest_preview_date = 
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = [[Video game console emulator|Console emulator]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-3.0]]
| website = https://www.visualboyadvance-m.org
| size = 
| language = 
| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m}}
}}

'''VisualBoyAdvance''' (commonly abbreviated as '''VBA''') is a free [[emulator]] of the [[Game Boy]], [[Game Boy Color]], and [[Game Boy Advance]] handheld game consoles<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/gba/vboyadvance.html|title=Visual Boy Advance|publisher=The Emulator Zone}}</ref> as well as of [[Super Game Boy]] and [[Super Game Boy#Super Game Boy 2|Super Game Boy 2]]. It is still downloadable to this day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Boy Advance Download - VBA Emulator |url=https://visualboyadvance.org/download/ |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Visual Boy Advance |language=en-US}}</ref>

Besides the [[DirectX]] version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free [[Cross-platform|platform independent]] [[graphics library]] [[Simple DirectMedia Layer|SDL]]. This is available for a variety of operating systems including [[Linux]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.happypenguin.org/show?VisualBoyAdvance-SDL|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530084911/http://www.happypenguin.org/show?VisualBoyAdvance-SDL|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 30, 2012|title=VisualBoyAdvance-SDL|date=15 February 2019|publisher=The Linux Game Tome}}</ref> [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[Mac OS X]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://visualboyadvance.en.softonic.com/mac|title=VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2|newspaper=Softonic}}</ref> and [[BeOS]]. VisualBoyAdvance has also been ported to [[AmigaOS 4]], [[AROS]], [[GameCube]], [[Wii]], [[webOS]], and [[Zune HD]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://code.google.com/p/vba-wii|title=Visual Boy Advance GX|date=18 February 2022|publisher=Google Code}}</ref>