My Boy! - GBA Emulator

Pixel Respawn LLC

About this game

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.

*** Unlike many others, we are the actual core emulation developers.

Ratings and reviews

I don't know what happened with the latest update to this app... before it was a 5/5, no issues. Usually, I could play a game and if I needed to go on other apps for a while, the emulator would still be running in the background, a notification saying so. Now, if I switch to another app then it'll completely restart the emulator which is a big issue for games that don't autosave. And I don't even get a notification on my phone saying the emulator is running anymore (probably on my end).

the app itself is great but I do wish there was an integrated way to access/move around save states. when I transfered the files from my previous phone, the MyBoy folder in emulated/0 transfered over but the app doesn't use it to store saves anymore (savestates from games I started on this phone/backed up using the in-app cloud saves still work, just can't find the access to save states I started on this phone)

I wish I could give it 10 stars. And cloud saves!? I think I may cry... Update 2023: This is the best app. When Android caused a bunch of things with storage access to change, there was an update where the app stopped working so I emailed the developer. Less than TWO days later, there is an update to fix it! That turn around time is amazing. I have emailed other developers and had bugs that stuck around for months. Kudos to the dev(s).