John GBA Lite

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About this game

John GBA Lite is GBA emulator for android 6.0+.
This app does not work without your own game files.

Features
- Original GBA engine
- Cheats (Raw/GameShark/CodeBreaker)
- High quality rendering
- Search game files in SDCard & Internal Storage
- Virtual On-screen keypad
- Zipped file support
- Save States (with previews)
- Customizable keys
- Turbo buttons
- Screenshot
- Fast forward / Slow down (x0.25 - x16)
- Bluetooth/MOGA controller support
- Dropbox support (requires John DataSync)

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Hardware requirements
-CPU: 1.0GHz Dual-core
-RAM: 1GB

Ratings and reviews

I got this to play sonic battle, as it worked great on my old (weaker) phone, but it's laggy and a little slow. maybe it's because of online aspect with the adds, or maybe it's the roms fault, but it didn't run badly when I first started the game. either way, I love this app, and I've been contemplating about getting the full thing.

Custom layout feature seems cool, but no matter what I do it seems impossible for it to detect games. Didn't work for me- UNTIL: after it asks which folder to use for Game Data- this you can't change, so don't; but Do create a Second Folder, name it anything- and select that one to place your Roms in. Making the two the same folder for whatever reason causes an issue where it doesn't detect Roms. 4 stars only because this issue is something you just have to figure out; hope this helps though

Good emulator, have had no issues with it technical wise. Controls are simple, and everything is simple to set up. One thing that bothers me is how the load and save state buttons are on the corner of the screen whe using your phone in horizontal mode. I have lost many hours of progress with it, and it's a pain to save every 4 minutes so incase I press the button I don't lose progress. Great emulator putting that aside.

What's new

-optimized for Android14
(Notification icon does not appear on Android14)
-enabled multi-window mode
-changed and optimized UI
-changed default layout
-fixed many layout bugs
-fixed many ANR and crash bugs