To play your favorite Gameboy Advance games on any Mac is easier than you could ever imagine.
To be able to play Gameboy Advance games on a Mac, you’re going to need an emulator and a ROM. Everything is for free and can be easily found on the Internet. An emulator allows your Mac to behave like a GBA. Thus, you need something to replace the original GBA games – roms gba (file formats, which work in tandem with emulators).Everything you have to do is to download both the emulator and the roms on your computer.
So, let’s look closer how the whole system of emulators-roms work and what the main GBA hacks are.
GBA ROMs on Your Mac
After downloading the emulator on your computer, double click on the folder and extract it. Once you’ve done that, go back to the Internet and find the games. The number of games for emulators are as big as the number of games for the original Gameboy Advance tool (100+). The most popular are the most common games like Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, Dragonball Z – Supersonic Warriors, Super Mario, Naruto – Ninja Council 2, and Grand Theft Auto Advance. Download the game and open Virtual Boy Advance. Select a specific rom and click «Open». Now the game should be running well. During the game, you can easily change configurations, add different cheats, and open a fullscreen.
Games and Hacks Time
If you don’t know or don’t remember what games are the most interesting to play on GBA, we’ve prepared a short list of the most interesting ones for you. Check it out and maybe you’ll find there your favorite game too.
1. Astro Boy. An interesting game with wonderful effects and great artwork. The main aim of the game is to beat enemies, collecting rewards.
2. Pokemon – Ruby. An extended version of a standard Pokemon game. Here the battle series is much improved and the direction of the whole game is very well thought out.
3. Super Mario Bros.3. This version of a world’s favorite game has the toughest level challenges in a series.
And now is time for the hacks. We’ve chosen a Pokemon rom to illustrate the best hacks for the game. The first hack is a Pokemon Glazed. It is one of the most popular hacks. You get a lot of content here, a lot of regions to explore. The second one is Pokemon Dark Rising. It is one of the hardest rom hacks among all existed. The number of Pokemons in the game is more than 380 and the game includes some new abilities and moves. The last but not the least is Pokemon Naturia. It is one of the thickest and fullest rom hacks you’ve ever seen. The hack has new progressive features, harder levels, and generally the biggest amount of newly added things. It is definitely something worthwhile to play.
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