BoycottAdvance is a cross-platform

Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...

 Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance

The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

 emulator

Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software or both that duplicates the functions of a first computer system in a different second computer system, so that the behavior of the second system closely resembles the behavior of the first system...

 with a wide variety of features:

• Good compatibility with most public and commercial games
• Full sound emulation (Direct sound and Gameboy compatible sound)
• Frame-skipping and automatic frame-skipping, throttle support
• Real BIOS support
• Load/save states
• Windowed and full-screen display
• WAV/MP3 sound recording
• Input recording
• Zip/GZip compressed files support
• Built-in debugger and graphic viewers
• Joystick support.

It is fairly CPU intensive. Running it on the Windows platform requires at least a Pentium III processor, while the Apple platform requires at least a G4 processor. Joystick support and full-screen gameplay require purchase of an additional shareware component for the Mac OS X version.

BoycottAdvance Online is the Java applet

Java applet

A Java applet is an applet delivered to users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine , or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets...

 version of the emulator that you can try directly online.

Retro gaming hacks (O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media

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, 2006) recommends it together with VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles....

 as excellent choices for GBA emulation, but remarks that "Boycott seems to be a bit more stable" and "is a notch easier to use".

External links

• BoycottAdvance homepage
• Mac OS X version homepage
• BoycottAdvance Online: Java version
• http://www.pdroms.de/files/gameboyadvance/Legal Game Boy Advance ROM image
  ROM image
  A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board...
  
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• An interview with Niels Wagenaar, one of Boycott Advance/SDL's main coders, ngemu.com, 2001