These days all you have to do is download one of the GameBoy emulators for Android and enjoy all these games from your mobile device. Mobile emulators are the enemy of boredom, and give you the chance to finally score that 100% playthrough for the Ocarina of Time even if you're miles away from your Nintendo 64 at home.Updated by Ivan Spasojevic on reworked the list a bit. Prefer to get a few matches of Smash in before that next important meeting? Dolphin's got you covered. Want to play Sonic and Mario side by side? No problem. The beauty of mobile emulators like these, of course, is you're only limited to what you can play by the amount of spare storage left on your flash card and the power of the device in your pocket. While plenty of purists out there could argue that the current gen of consoles is the golden age of gaming, there's just as many old codgers on the other side of the argument that think what we got in the 90's and early aughts can't be beat. Titles like Grand Theft Auto, Final Fantasy, and Crazy Taxi have all seen their fair share of reboots and rehashes, optimized specifically for touch surfaces to give them the ultimate in responsiveness and fluidity of motion while you play. Lastly, it bears mentioning that hundreds of some of the best retro games out there have been remastered as a part of the Google Play gaming lineup. The Drastic DS emulator takes advantage of this by giving DS lovers all the same features they've come to love on their Nintendo handheld, and ramping things up to 11 with post-processing graphics that can significantly improve on the textures and models that made DS games the classics they are.īut, even though they're perfect for one another, it's recommended you only run DS games on a device with a screen size of 5.5' or larger, as the dual-screen setup can prove a bit too cramped for phones to handle all on their own. Though it's already obvious from the outset, DS games are pretty much a match made in heaven for Android devices thanks to the touchscreen compatibility of many of its most immersive titles. The MyBoy! emulator can be found on the Google Play store at the link here. Users of the emulators may notice that some ROMs could have more trouble running smoothly than others (popular games like Golden Sun are notoriously finicky when it comes to emulator compatibility), however getting the game you want to work on your preferred platform is simply a matter of trial and error.

Controller on myboy emulator