GBA Emulator - PC Requirements

rosshamilton94 · Jul 25, 2013

This may well be a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

I have an Ultrabook as a 2nd PC (in addition to my gaming rig) and I have been looking into downloading a GBA emulator to play some of the old Pokemon games while away on holiday.

The specs are:

1.4Ghz Intel i3-2367m Dual-Core CPU (4 threads)
2GB RAM
64GB SSD

Would this be able to run the emulator or not?

The reason I am asking is I have seen some posts stating that that emulators use a lot of CPU power.

Thanks.

PS: The consensus seems to be that Visual Boy Advance is the best emulator to use. Does anyone support or refute that?

DarkSable · Jul 25, 2013

First of all, that should be fine - emulators DO use a lot of CPU power, but the GBA is old, and can be emulated on one of the newer fancy calculators, for goodness' sake.

I personally use VBA and love it; I've used other things, but prefer VBA for it's UI.

Also, this seems like a strange question to be asking - why not just download it and see how well it runs, rather than asking if someone on the internet thinks it'll run well?

RaisingTheBarHD · Jul 25, 2013

i would assume it can run it just based on the fact that my old 2008 macbook is around those specs and runs everything fine.

Kraszmyl · Jul 25, 2013

VBA is an excellent emulator and yes you can run it perfectly fine.

rosshamilton94 · Jul 25, 2013

Thanks folks. While I'm at it, I have come across two websites from which to get the games, Emuparadise and CoolRoms. Anyone with any experience of there sites? Are they safe to use?

RaisingTheBarHD · Jul 25, 2013

rosshamilton94 :

i use coolrom and its highly regarded

rosshamilton94 · Jul 25, 2013

RaisingTheBarHD :

Thanks.

DarkSable · Jul 25, 2013

I disagree with that - coolrom isn't that reliable, and often has viruses; I personally use emuparadise, as it's guaranteed clean and has a large community.

RaisingTheBarHD · Jul 25, 2013

DarkSable :

ive been using coolrom for years and my friends have also and none of us have had any issues.

rosshamilton94 · Jul 25, 2013

DarkSable :

For what its worth, I got the emulator and the Pokemon Emerald ROM without any trouble, I also scanned both the individual programs and my system with my anti-virus program and Malwarebytes after downloading and nothing untoward was detected.

SteenZF · Jan 3, 2017

rosshamilton94 :

My computer is on par with yours and I can run VisualBoyAdvance just fine. The worst I've encountered was dropping to 20FPS.

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