Nostalgia.GBA Pro – GBA Emu

508 reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
10K+
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About this game

Nostalgia.GBA Pro is the ad-free version of Nostalgia.GBA, a fast, high quality GBA emulator for Android based on mGBA. Play your own GBA games with rewind, save states, cheats and a fully customizable on-screen controller. mGBA is distributed under the terms of the MPL license and its source code is available here: https://tinyurl.com/ovoepck

Features
- Modern, cool-looking & user friendly interface
- Highly customizable virtual controller! You can adjust the size and position of each button to suit your needs.
- Game progress saving and loading - 8 manual slots with screenshots & an autosave slot. Share save states among your devices via Bluetooth, email etc. directly from the app.
- Export and import your battery saves (.sav) to back them up or move them to another device or emulator
- Rewinding! Got killed by a bad guy? Never mind! Just rewind the game a couple of seconds back and try again!
- Wi-Fi controller mode!
- Turbo buttons & A+B button
- Hardware accelerated graphics utilizing OpenGL ES
- 44100 Hz stereo sound
- Hardware keyboard support
- Supports HID bluetooth gamepads (MOGA, 8bitdo etc.)
- Screenshots - easily capture an image of the game any time during gameplay
- Use special cheat codes to make GBA games even more fun!
- GBA and ZIP file support

No ROMs are included in the application.

Import your ROMs (zipped or unzipped) with IMPORT FROM DIR or IMPORT FROM FILE in the Nostalgia.GBA menu.

Join our Discord community to get help, share cheats and suggest new features: https://discord.gg/EJwuB2gyFa

Do not hesitate to send bug reports, suggestions or questions to our email.
Ad-free GBA emulator with rewind, save states & cheats. Games not included.
Updated on
Oct 31, 2026

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Ratings and reviews

470 reviews
Jacques Heunis
April 9, 2024
Will delete your saved games! Worked brilliantly for a while, until I wanted to extract a save file for use elsewhere. Then I opened the "change working directory" option to try see where it saved them, hit back a few times to avoid making any changes and was told it had "Successfully copied" the files. After that, all my saved states were corrupted and unusable (even in other emulators and on other devices).
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Alexander Stewart
August 12, 2023
Good emulator, plays games perfectly with good colour and sound. No issues. I have 3 bad points which is why it's not 5*. 1. Once you've added a rom and chosen the file directory you can't delete it later on 2. The cheat option could be a lot better. I've managed to get it to work but it wasn't the easiest. Eg knowing what style of codes to use 3. The font on the emulator itself is blocky and not that easy to read (personal preference)
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Michael Garrido
September 1, 2026
awful experience. paid for the pro edition and then got stiffed later on as I was using it. couldn't import saves or load the saves I had, couldn't assign a directory to load games from... things you would come to expect from an emulator on android. tried contacting the devs about this but nothing like the other reviewer said. I'm almost certain they've given up on updating this app. pizza boy looks great though!!!! tried that and it currently has what I mentioned earlier so I'll try that.
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Nostalgia Emulators
November 2, 2026
Thanks for the feedback, and sorry for the trouble! Version 2.5.9 fixes importing ROMs from a whole folder and adds export and import of .sav files in the game menu, so you can move your saves between devices and apps. Please update the app from Google Play.

What’s new

What's new
• Export and import your game saves (.sav) – back up your progress or move it to another device
• Loading ROMs from a whole folder works again
• Fixed on-screen buttons (Start, Select, menu) not responding on some newer phones
• Screenshots are saved correctly on newer Android versions
• Better support for Android 15 and 16
• Fewer crashes and better stability