The Mac Boy Advance emulator also enables you to use cheats, if the loaded ROM supports this feature. Mac Boy Advance inherits its list of supported formats and it can load GBA, SGB, and GBC zipped and gzipped ROMs thus, once downloaded, you can directly load them and start playing. Mac Boy Advance is one such utility and a fork of the very popular cross-platform VisualBoyAdvance, a Nintendo Game Boy, Color and Advance handheld gaming console emulator. Nintendo Game Boy, Color and Advance emulator with multi-platform support
This type of application can be used to emulate the hardware of old gaming consoles in order to play older games on today's most popular operating systems, on either desktop machines or portable devices like mobile phones and tablets.
Game emulators have been around since legacy gaming platforms have not been on sale because of dwindling user base and new gadgets with much powerful hardware have been launched on the market.
