John GBA

John emulators

About this game

John GBA is GBA emulator for android 6.0+.
This app does not work without your own game files.
Please try John GBA lite before purchasing.
John GBA can take over John GBA Lite data.

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)
- No ADs
- No internet connection

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

Ratings and reviews

Previously 5 star...however the new update makes it functionally useless. It can no longer scan your files for games, and anything you download is no longer playable. If you try to manually open it it Says it's not playable or the folder cannot be used to load things from. Considering I paid for this app and its not functionally garbage I'm pretty pissed off. I'd rate it negative stars if I could.

This emulator is the best one in the play store. The functionality in terms of fast forward, save/load state, audio toggle, button arrangement and cheat options make the user experience amazing. Is there any way to make the d-pad more fluid? There's a 'break-stop' when moving from left to right/top to bottom when you slide your finger across the d-pad because you touch the center of it. I want to be able to move around fluidly without having these break-stops if this makes sense. Thanks!

Love it, if they had a way to connect to other phones using the emulator to simulate a Link Cable, that would be incredible! Also, it would be neat to have an option to disable the top left save state button. It's a bad habit to develop when you want to play Fire Emblem the way it was intended 😅 (won't deny that it saves time tho). Other than that, money well spent.

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