John GBA Lite

Contains ads
3.7
280K reviews
Content rating
Everyone
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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)

Please purchase John GBA to remove Ads.

Hardware requirements
-CPU: 1.0GHz Dual-core
-RAM: 1GB
Updated on
Nov 29, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

3.7
258K reviews
Jamie Baxley
May 2, 2020
I have used this emulator ALOT, and for a free emulator, it is FABULOUS! Firstly, the ads are not so intrusive and annoying! That makes the game actually playable and puts the game in the highest quality possible! Second, the fact that you can speed gameplay is very helpful! When I play Pokèmon, I end up getting in LOTS of battles which is annoying. However thanks to the speed up feature I can play faster! This is just amazing!
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Greg Birmingham
June 20, 2020
I used this app on my old phone to play Pokemon fire red and loved it! Now my 3 year old daughter is starting to like Pokemon so I've added it to my current phone to teach her about the games. It works great, aside from 1 issue. It won't play GBC games. The engine seems to be limited to GBA games, so in order to play GBC, I need to install the separate emulator. It's not a big deal, I just wasn't looking forward to having another app. Otherwise, this is a great emulator!
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Riad Alzaim
January 13, 2022
One of the best out there. Great haptic feedback, very little lag, speed up options up to 16x! There is literally nothing more an emulator needs. The ads aren't as bad as people say, mostly just small banner ads at the bottom and a skippable ad everytime you switch to another app. In all my time using this, it's only crashed twice, both times I was using over x4 speed (let's be honest, all emulators struggle with that). And the quick and auto save are extremely helpful. All in all a solid app.
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