Case study

NanoBoyAdvance: cycle-level Game Boy Advance hardware emulation

NanoBoyAdvance reconstructs Game Boy Advance hardware behavior in a cycle-level emulator. It models CPU, DMA, timers, PPU and Game Pak prefetch, and provides palette, tile, background and sprite viewers. The author reports passing several GBA accuracy suites.

Targets: Firmware
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 1.3k
Last commit: 2026-06-21
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Running a ROM requires a Game Boy Advance BIOS file.
Prerequisites: Building requires a C++20 compiler, CMake 3.24 or newer, SDL 3.0.0 or newer and Qt 6.0 or newer.
License: Licensed under GNU GPL-3.0 or later.

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BibTeX

@misc{nanoboyadvance-gba-emulation-case,
  title = {{NanoBoyAdvance: cycle-level Game Boy Advance hardware emulation}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance}},
  url = {https://github.com/nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nanoboyadvance-gba-emulation-case/}}
}

Plain text

NanoBoyAdvance: cycle-level Game Boy Advance hardware emulation. https://github.com/nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nanoboyadvance-gba-emulation-case/

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README.md GitHub · nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance · Revision 55b5cf0