



Our take
This is a genuinely deep piece of engineering, gyroscope emulation, rumble, high-level BIOS support are not trivial to get right. It’s a niche audience by definition (you need your own ROMs) but for that audience this is close to best-in-class.
About My Boy! - GBA Emulator
My Boy! is a super fast and full-featured emulator to run GameBoy Advance games on Android devices, from very low-end phones to modern tablets. It emulates nearly all aspects of the real hardware, including linking devices for multiplayer games.
Highlights: • Super fast emulation, thanks to the JIT recompiler. • Very high game compatibility. Run nearly all games without a problem. • Link cable emulation either on the same device, or across devices over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. • Gyroscope/tilt/solar sensor and rumble emulation through your Android’s hardware sensors and vibrator! • Enter multilined GameShark/ActionReplay/CodeBreaker cheat codes and enable/disable them on the fly while the game is running. • High-level BIOS emulation. No BIOS file needed. • IPS/UPS ROM patching • OpenGL rendering backend, as well as normal rendering on devices without a GPU. • Cool video filters through the support of GLSL shaders. • Fast-forward to skip long stories, as well as slow down games to get past a level you cannot in normal speed. • Save games at any time with screenshot • Sync saves with Google Drive. Play and save games on one device and continue on the others! • On-screen keypad (multi-touch requires Android 2.0 or later), as well as shortcut buttons such as load/save. • A screen layout editor, with which you can define the position and size for each of the on-screen controls, as well as for the game video. • Clean & simple yet well-designed user interface. Seamlessly integrated with the latest Android. • Create and switch to different screen-layout and key-mapping profiles. • Create shortcuts to easily launch your favorite games from your desktop.
No games are included in this app and you need to obtain yours in a legal way. Place them onto your device storage and you are good to go.
LEGAL: This product is not affiliated with, nor authorized, endorsed or licensed in any way by Nintendo Corporation, its affiliates or subsidiaries.
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Verdict: One of the most technically capable GBA emulators on Android, built for people who know exactly what they want.
Additional information
- Developer
- Pixel Respawn LLC
- Updated on
- Oct 5, 2025
- Version
- Varies with device
- Downloads
- 1,000,000+
- Content rating
- Everyone
- Requires Android
- Varies with device
- Released on
- Aug 12, 2012
- Category
- Arcade
- Offered by
- $4.99