About
My OldBoy! is a full-featured and super-fast emulator to run Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on the broadest range of Android devices, from very low-end phones to modern tablets. It emulates accurately almost every aspect of the real hardware. Special features including link cable, rumble, and tilt sensor are also supported. You can also make your GB games colorful by selecting a custom palette. Of course it does not just emulate the hardware. Thanks to the save state system, you can save progress at any time and return back to it instantly. And while enabling fast-forward in game, you can quickly skip to the part of the game you are mostly interested in. • Fast emulation with ARM assembly code. Easily get to 60 FPS without frame skips even on very low-end devices. • Very good game compatibility. • Saves your battery as much as possible. • Link cable emulation either on the same device, or across devices over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, running at decent speed. • Tilt sensor and rumble emulation through your Android's hardware sensors and vibrator! • Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer emulation. • Super Game Boy palettes emulation. Enhance monochrome games by bringing more colors! • Enter multilined GameShark/GameGenie cheat codes and enable/disable them on the fly while the game is running. • IPS/UPS ROM patching • Fast-forward to skip long stories, as well as slow down games to get past a level you cannot in normal speed. Depending on your hardware, it can run as fast as 50x normal speed. • OpenGL rendering backend, as well as normal rendering on devices without a GPU. • Cool video filters through the support of GLSL shaders. • Save games at any time with screenshot. • Sync saves with Google Drive. • On-screen keypad, as well as shortcut buttons such as load/save. • A powerful screen layout editor, with which you can define the position and size for each of the on-screen controls, as well as for the game video. • External controllers support, through either the Android native way or input method. • Well-designed user interface. Seamlessly integrated with the latest Android. • Create and switch to different screen-layout and key-mapping profiles. • Create shortcuts to easily launch your favorite games from your desktop. No games are included in this app and you need to obtain yours in a legal way. Place them onto your SD card, and browse to them from within the app. LEGAL: This product is not affiliated with, nor authorized, endorsed or licensed in any way by Nintendo Corporation, its affiliates or subsidiaries.
Info
Genre
Arcade
Rating
PEGI 3
Release
Mar 3, 2014
Last Update
Oct 11, 2024
Reviews
Zorcore Music
I've used this emulator for over 10 years. It is the best on the market run smoothly. However, it frustrates me that you had to unnecessarily update it to remove not only the widgets , but the UI and where the downloaded games are located in their directories. If something isn't broken, don't fix it! Other than that, it's a very smooth emulator and I use it almost daily. Developers, please email me and bring back the widgets so I can go to my games from my main screen! Thank you
Ian Botterill
This is one of the best Gameboy & Gameboy Color emulators available other than GBC emu. My OldBoy! has excellent emulation and is easy to use. It has a good touchscreen controller. I recommend this application. 5 🌟
David Foster
It's a good emulator but the way it handles .sav files is confusing. It creates a duplicate file in android data files and uses that as the master. Otherwise very good.
Chelsea Vincent
I wanted a simple emulator to play my beloved Yellow version again without ads. 💛 Sold. The save function in-game appears to work, but who doesn't love emulator save states? Super awesome, loving every minute.
Richard Tucker
Best emulator ever. Let's keep in mind people if we have save files on one phone and you are trying to transfer them, it might not work due to the file format.....if it isn't a ZIP file, don't use it. Another thing about crashing......use the save feature that's on the game itself, not the emulator save file. That's how I lost my Pokémon file, using the emulator save feature. Too many soft resets and a crash is bound to happen. Try clearing cookies from ya browsers as well!
A Google user
MyOldBoy is a great GB/GBC emulator. It plays all the games I can throw at it very well. The only thing I have an issue with is that it doesn't support A+B+START+SELECT as a control option or function. Some games, such as The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (DX), The Oracle of Seasons and The Oracle of Ages require this control input to save manually, and it functions as a reset command for the system itself. Add that, and it'll be perfect.
A Google user
Bugs out a lot, save states get randomly deleted and have to force reset the app every time I want to open it as it goes berserk and can't select game whenever I open it without resetting. Is a newer issue as I've had this app before and on previous phone and no problems. Not sure why it's doing this now. Hopefully will be fixed soon. Otherwise is a great app from before
A Google user
I was shot and killed by a swat team for pirating 20 year old games. Worth it. In all seriousness this app is great, definitely worth the $3.99 ($4.99? I can't even remember how much it costs). The controls layout being customizable is a huge plus, and the "cheat" code system is simple and easy to use. I hear its it's possible to do local online multiplayer, which I'm definitely going to have to try out asap.
Pete Bones
This used to be the best gameboy emulator - but since the newest update, it's become useless. Not being able to get direct access to the data folder means I can't use my own saves. PLEASE go back to having the data folder in a user accessible area, instead of the locked off android data area.
Adam Georgopoulos
I love this app, but the recent update took me off guard. Not sure I like the new theme, wish it was darker. The save game debacle was annoying at first but resolved very quickly, just select the MyOldBoy top level folder (not the save folder inside that). My biggest gripe is that it will no longer load my old layout and I have to remake them even though the files are right ther and i can see them. Please make a function to load layot from xml file. Otherwise the emulator is still great
chris amas
This emulator has the features I like with the best looking display. What kills it for me is audio crackling issues. I cannot find a way to get rid of it. There is no option to cnahge the refresh rate to match with my android device. Also this app does not play nice with other emulators. You are forced to have your save files in the apps root directory, so your saves cannot be shared with other emulators. They took a big step back with the latest update and did not address previous issues.