VGBAnext GameBoy, NES Emulator

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About this game

VGBAnext runs games written for GBA, GBC, GB, NES, Famicom, DiskSystem, and VS System gaming consoles. It also emulates many addons, such as tilt sensors, light guns, vibration packs, printers, and more. VGBAnext is specifically opimized for Android devices. It lets you save game progress at any moment, or even rewind gameplay back in time. You can exchange saved game states with other users, or play together by using the network play. VGBAnext supports AndroidTV, GoogleTV, and a variety of gamepads, including Xperia Play, Moga, iCade, Sixaxis, Nyko PlayPad, and others.

* Supports full screen landscape and portrait modes, with many special effect options and customizable skin.
* Supports Moga and iCade gamepads, Nyko PlayPad, Xperia Play, and Sixaxis.
* Supports AndroidTV devices, such as ShieldTV, Nexus Player, and ADT-1.
* Supports GoogleTV devices running Android 4.x (Jelly Bean), such as LG G2/G3.
* Save gameplay at any point and go back to that point once your character gets killed.
* Rewind gameplay 16 seconds back with a single keypress.
* Share your current progress with other users via State Exchange feature.
* Use Network Play to play with other users over WiFi.
* Play with your hardware keyboard, gamepad, touch screen, or accelerometer.
* Record game soundtrack to MIDI files and use them as ringtones.
* On-screen buttons can be freely rearranged.

VGBAnext comes with a single public domain game. You can find more free public domain games at http://pdroms.de/. Please, do not run any software you do not own with VGBAnext.

Please, report any encountered problems here:

http://groups.google.com/group/emul8
VGBAnext emulates GameBoy & NES gaming consoles, with saves, rewinding, and more
Updated on
Sep 7, 2026
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  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    App info and performance and Device or other IDs
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.4K reviews
A Google user
September 17, 2018
Excellent emulator, my personal favorite. I will admit, the ability to play with friends over local wireless would be perfect, and I hope they add the feature at a later date, but even so it is still the best emulator I've used. Clean, simple UI, and a very convenient cheat code encyclopedia, make this one of the most used apps on my phone. Highly recommend.
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Garage Research Emulators
September 22, 2018
VGBAnext should let you play with friends on the local network as-is. Try using "Netplay" option in the menu. It might be a bit slow though, since GBA GameLink protocol involves sending a lot of data.
A Google user
June 15, 2019
I, like many others, was very disappointed when cheats were suddenly disabled as I'd used them just days prior to it happening. It didn't sour my experience with the app though, it was still a top notch emulator. I just fired it up today for the first time in a few months to find the creator had found a workaround to get our beloved cheats back. If you're one to quickly complain I'd urge you to look through these reviews or in the app itself to activate the cheatopedia.
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Caelen Daynes
January 9, 2023
Emulator itself works well, clean gameplay. But since playing yesterday I've had 2 instances of my saves not working. I saved both using a freeze state and in-game but when I've opened the app later on it's reverted back to a previous save and then overwritten the slot both slots with that previous save. Quite disappointing considering the price, will try turn off auto-save to see if this resolves it
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Garage Research Emulators
January 9, 2023
The frozen state always overrides the in-game saves, since it saves its own copy of the cartridge EEPROM. This includes the default frozen state, i.e. the moment where you exited the emulation.

What’s new

-- Hopefully fixed rare crashes on startup