Some great suggestions already, so I'll add a few. Super Robot Wars Original Generation 1 and 2 Basically Fire Emblem meets Advance Wars, with giant robots. Super Robot Wars Judgement Never released in English, but there is a fully translated patch. Unlike the Original Generation games, this has characters and mechs from anime (Mazinger Z, Gundam SEED, Tekkaman Blade, Nadesico, etc) Golden Sun 1 and 2 Classic-style RPGs with their own twist. Kinda reminds me of a cross between Lufia and Final Fantasy. Also, beating part 1 gives you a code to import data to part 2. Eat your heart out, BioWare. Fire Emblem is great. It's really Fire Emblem 7, and a prequel. FE 6 was the first gba game, never released here. But, it's been fan translated, something like 98% (some stuff required graphical hacking hey didn't want to bother with, but in-game story and menus are fully playable). Also, FE 8 (Sacred Stones) is really good. Mega Man Zero 1-4, or mega Man & Bass if you like things more classic. The Castlevania titles play fairly well. Aria of Sorrow is the popular choice, though my fav of the bunch is Circle of the Moon. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Take the basic idea of FFT, with a plot reminiscent of The Neverending Story and a touch of FF 9's ability system. If you prefer a more serious take, Tactics Ogre : The Knight of Lodis. Tactics Ogre was the spiritual precursor to FFT, and unlike FFTA, it's gba spinoff (prequel, actually) maintains the mature tone. Pokemon! You have the core games (Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, FireRed/LeafGreen), and also dozens of hacks. One of my favorites is Liquid Crystal. It's an upgraded recreation of Crystal for gbc. So, Basically, it's SoulSilver but on gba. Since this baby also plays gb games- Shantae! Awesome retro style platformer/adventure title. The first one was for gbc. Dragonball Z Legendary Super Warriors Kind of weird card-based RPG/fighter. Quirky, but fun. Mega Man extreme 1 and 2. Ya know, if you don't have an snes emu on hand for the real thing. Metal Gear Solid You'll be surprised how similar the gameplay is to the PSX title (it's not a port, mind you, but an original story). Mainly because MGS focused on the graphics and acting, but the gameplay was very similar the MSX originals. The GBC game plays somewhere between the two and is surprisingly deep. Super Mario Land Because, of course. Tetris. Always Tetris. It's super pixelated. In fact, if you're jailbroken, it actually looks BETTER if you use RetinaPad to force it to read as an iPhone app in 2x mode. Very odd. I hope he can fix that, otherwise I'm likely going back to gba.emu.
No. I won't switch the date on my iOS devices. Never did that. I am not sure what that does. I have TONS of reminders, calendars and I can't risk that something goes screwed with such an action. Sorry.
"It's super pixelated. In fact, if you're jailbroken, it actually looks BETTER if you use RetinaPad to force it to read as an iPhone app in 2x mode. Very odd. I hope he can fix that, otherwise I'm likely going back to gba.emu." The GBA ROMs are copies of GBA games that were designed to be played on that small screen. Due to the fact that the iPad is like 8 times the size of that screen, how could we expect the games to all of a sudden be more crisp? They aren't retina games. They should be extremely pixelated. The emulator doesn't add pixels to ROMs.
I was going to write a huge list but that link pretty much covered it and more. I may add some GBC games later that weren't already mentioned. Dragon warrior monsters is a fun game similar to pokemon that I enjoyed a while ago.
On an unfortunate note, has anyone else had a problem with the music not playing in the Super Mario Advance 4 ROM? Is it the ROM or the emulator? I can hear some of the sound effects clearly and some are weird sounding, but no music. I have another ROM on my old phone so I may try using that one later today.
this is the first emulator i've downloaded and im really impressed with it so far, i can replay the games that I loved as a child i've downloaded emerald as it was the top pokemon but which one would you guys recommend? i've never really played pokemon before so I don't know what to expect from each version (other than different pokemons)
Yup. Just checked my older emu and rom and its the same sounds and no music. Must be this version of the rom. On to find a better one!
LOVING this! Couple questions though: 1. How do you direct the in-app browser to another rom site besides the default? 2. How do you download skins from within the app?
1. I had to tap on their twitter like button near the bottom of the page, search on twitter for another rom site like doperoms or romnation, and then click on a link in someone's tweet, and then search that site for the rom I want. It didn't download correctly though, so I don't know if they will work from other sites.
You can also browse in Safari and direct it to open the rom in GBA4iOS. I used this method to find a better Mario 3 rom without sound issues.
Anyone know how to delete a ROM from the interface? All I get is to rename. Or do we need to use something like iFunBox to do it.
