Emulators are an ideal way to preserve video game history. Thanks to them, we can play thousands of games from almost every console in history. One of the best to emulate is the Game Boy Advance, with hundreds of fun titles, some of which were released on previous consoles like SNES or Mega Drive. Now, you can play them comfortably from your browser.
The website that allows this is Afterplay.io . The web is nothing more than an implementation for browsers of the mGBA emulator, which allows, just by uploading a ROM, to play any game immediately from the web browser. And although we are not going to obtain all the functions that a complete emulator allows to use, we do have the most important ones, such as changing the controls and saving the game at the point we want.
Game Boy and SNES: more consoles coming soon
In addition, one of the advantages of being able to access from the browser is that it is multiplatform, so we can access from any device and continue playing our game. We can start it on the PC, and then continue it on the mobile with touch control on the screen.
In addition to mGBA , the service also allows emulating SNES games through the SNES9x emulator, so we can now emulate Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance comfortably from the web browser. We can see a video of how it works below:
Although the emulator currently only works for the Game Boy Advance and it is a project that Patrick Corrigan has done in his spare time, the creator says he has big plans for it. For example, you are planning to add more consoles in the future, such as the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 .
It’s free, for now
Thus, although we can currently run console emulators natively on all types of platforms, it is rare that we can share saved games between those platforms, and be able to continue playing wherever and whenever we want as if it were a video game service. on the cloud. In addition, the advantage is that it is totally free, although when you log in it appears that you can only continue to enjoy the service for 14 days, and then it will probably force you to pay to continue using it. The fact that a kind of subscription is charged for a minimum amount of $ 5 can attract the attention of companies like Nintendo and force them to close the service. For now, we can enjoy it.