Good GameBoy Advance Emulator? [closed]

The most known GBA emulator is VisualBoyAdvance (as the link that fossfreedom posted says). The problem is that it lacks of some important features. The good news is that it exists a fork: Visual Boy Advance-M.

It supports loading Gameshark, action replay saves and a lot more. (I specially like the option to use smart filters when scaling the game).

No filter

hq2x filter

You can install it from PlayDeb.net. The bad news is that PlayDeb hasn't updated their packages to Precise Pangolin (12.04). But I think that installing the oneiric package should work perfectly.

After you install the PlayDeb package, you will only have to install the following package: vbam-gtk

EDIT: Right now, PlayDeb packages are available from 9.10 to 13.04 (the packages have not been updated yet to 13.10). As always, if you use 13.10, in most cases, you can use 13.04 (or any other version) packages without experiencing any problems (if any, it will be because of dependencies, which is very unlikely), as well as 13.04 repository.

On 12.04:

• VBA 1.8.0 sudo apt-get install visualboyadvance-gtk had the run too fast bug which made it unplayable for me: Visual boy advanced emulator runs too fast

• Mednafen 0.8.D.3 sudo apt-get install mednafen worked well, but has no nice GUI config.

  Hit F1 for basic help, ALT+SHIFT+1 to configure controller 1.

  backtick ` to fast forward. To change it to space: edit ~/.mednafen/mednafen.cfg line command.fast_forward to command.fast_forward keyboard 32.

  keyboard values seems to follow http://expandinghead.net/keycode.html