Got GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, or GameBoy Color ROMs? It’s easy to play them in your Linux PC through VBA-M emulator.
There are quite a few game emulators for Linux. You can use PPSSPP to run PSP games, and RetroArch for multiple consoles support. For Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, VBA-M is a good choice.
VBA-M, stands for VisualBoyAdvance-M, is the continued development of the now inactive VisualBoy Advance project, with many improvements from various forks.
It’s a free open-source emulator app that included in system repositories for many Linux, including Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, and so forth.
VBA-M is available to install in Ubuntu through either Snap or Flatpak package.
For all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 23.04/23.10, and next Ubuntu 24.04. Either open Ubuntu Software or App Center, then search & install ‘visualboyadvance-m’.
Linux Mint 21 users can easily install the emulator as Flatpak from Software Manager.
While Ubuntu users can install the package by running 2 commands below one by one:
After installing the emulator, search for and launch it from start menu or Gnome overview depends on your desktop environment (Log out and back in if app icon not visible).
When it opens, simply go to menu “Options -> Input -> Configure
” to configure your Joypad or keyboard keys.
In the pop-up dialog, click focus any input field, then either press a key
on keyboard or move joystick
to add. Or, use backspace
to delete last added, clear
to delete all the keys for corresponding input.
Now, you can use menu “File
-> Open
” to load your ROMs. Then, go menu “Options -> Video
” to either toggle full-screen mode, or scale the game window.
And, you can press Ctrl+G to switch between pixel filters for better gaming experience.
Depends on how you installed the emulator, do either method below to remove it:
snap remove visualboyadvance-m
flatpak uninstall com.vba_m.visualboyadvance-m
Also, run flatpak uninstall --unused
to remove useless runtime libraries that can free up some disk space.
That’s all. Enjoy!
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