Reviews for My Boy! - GBA Emulator

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20 reviews

Review by Jacob Craft
(4/5)February 18, 2021

The app is great. It runs everything I throw at it with no issues at all. However I have cloud sync turned off as I have had some corruption with other apps in the past and don’t necessarily trust it. Even though sync is turned off multiple times a day I get a request to […]

Review by Erica
(4/5)November 10, 2023

Definitely one of my favorite phone emulators of all time, the only thing is as soon as I went from the free version to the paid version all of my screenshots decided to be .JPEG and I have no way to fix it to be .PNG again. 😬 and yes I tried searching around the […]

Review by Brian D (GearMonkey)
(1/5)May 4, 2023

Recent update broke it. Can’t access save files anymore due to them being on the root of device storage. Absolutely useless now. Obviously these files with be on the root storage, it’s the only storage on any modern android device. Myboy itself is on the root, and it considers it’s subfolder of saves on the […]

Review by joshua baker
(1/5)May 5, 2023

No longer works, which is especially bad because this version cost money to use. I paid for it, and now I can’t use it anymore, it’s ridiculous. Fix it or give us our money back. Edit: the MyBoy folder doesn’t include the game files themselves, they need to be moved into the folder manually, figure […]

Review by Carsan Hofelt
(4/5)December 5, 2023

Almost perfect! great, well featured emulator that runs well on low-spec devices. Only two small complaints; there doesn’t seem to be a way to *remove* library folders, and there’s no option to automatically mute the game while using fast-forward. Still well worth the price, but I would love to see these features implemented in the […]

Review by A Google user
(1/5)July 21, 2019

The emulator is good, but IT WILL ASK FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNTS CONSTANTLY, no matter how many times you deny it. Many people may not think twice before pressing allow. I can’t think of any legitimate reason why an emulation app would need access to your email. It is VERY suspicious, potential […]

Review by sailorheart
(1/5)May 9, 2023

MyBoy has not logged the many times I have saved in-game since the update on May 3. When I imported a save file for another game, all of my save files within their folder were imported and loaded at earlier save points since the last time I had played them. I lost 30 hours in […]

Review by TheOnlyDibbs
(1/5)May 10, 2023

Worked well. Now that you have to go through root storage… idk, I made a different folder, uploaded the files, and… they don’t work. Won’t load, don’t know how to pull them out… Goes from one of THE BEST mobile emulators to an absolute scam (by all appearances, anyway, I might be screwing something up, […]

Review by Dominic Gobbo
(3/5)March 6, 2024

Myboy has been the emulator Ive used for GBA games for years. But recently, there is an issue with save data. Games run great, and save just fine, but if I wanted to pull the save data or upload save data, it’s impossible now. I don’t know if there is a way to fix that […]

Review by A Google user
(4/5)April 22, 2019

I’ve used this emulator for awhile now, and love it. Recently though I’ve switched to a Sony Xperia X, and it keeps crashing on certain games. Mostly having problems with Pokemon Fire Red, and Emerald. Otherwise a very solid emulator in terms of speed, and ease of use. Worth the $5 spent, but would love […]

Review by A Google user
(4/5)January 27, 2019

The emulator works well. One problem that could be fixed fairly easily is you can’t connect different games remotely. This makes sense from a programmer’s perspective. But it’s unnecessary. If you did link two different games, it wouldn’t do anything. And it also makes trades between different pokemon games annoying. You can connect 2 different […]

Review by Kindell Brown
(4/5)May 7, 2024

A very good GBA emulator. It’s very straightforward and compatible with a lot of ROM hacks, which are my most played games. I also really appreciate the Google Drive connectivity, so I can continue playing games from one device to another. One qualm I do have is that updates seem slow, sometimes scarce. But otherwise, […]

Review by Kenneth Carson
(3/5)August 28, 2023

Been using this emulator for years and it was great. But now in the last update they made a major change. It no longer uses the save folder. Plus and this is the big one, we no longer have access to our save data. You use to be able to copy your save data and […]

Review by Dave Vrabel
(2/5)May 6, 2023

Before the new update I would have given 5 stars. Unfortunately now in order to access your rom files you have to manually look for them and upload them to the app wheras before they were automatically added to the list of games after you saved the rom to your device. In an attempt to […]

Review by Donald Puchalski
(2/5)January 12, 2024

Emulator needs a bug update. Hasn’t been done since May of 2023. I put hours into a game recently, and now when I try to open said game, it says emulator has a bug. Update app after developer fixes issue. Hoping this can be addressed soon. The rest of the games still work but the […]

Review by Entei
(3/5)October 16, 2024

I don’t know what happened with the latest update to this app… before it was a 5/5, no issues. Usually, I could play a game and if I needed to go on other apps for a while, the emulator would still be running in the background, a notification saying so. Now, if I switch to […]

Review by John Gerken
(4/5)June 22, 2025

Very good. Works great. However, it would GREATLY Benefit from some way of reorganizing the list of cheats. At least, a drag-to-reorder system so you can put similar cheats together in the list. Even better would be a simple folder system. Using pokemon for example, currently, if you add cheats to buy certain items, then […]

Review by will bedard
(5/5)June 5, 2025

I LOVE this emulator, but I have one suggestion that I think would make it even better if it’s something that’s even possible to do : Make it so that, when in fast forward mode, the game you’re playing is in fast forward, but the game’s music stays at 1x speed. I LOVE the pokemon […]

Review by Christopher Hope
(4/5)September 13, 2025

Four-star simply because it’s a cool tool… It’s not perfect. I’ve switched four phones since I’ve had this emulator. My friend bought me this emulator for my birthday. I play pokémon games on it a lot. when transferring to a cell phone, it is a challenge to find files. my games are still in the […]

Review by Davon
(4/5)July 19, 2025

it seems to be good so far. my only complaint is that you should be able to control how much it speeds up in fast forward. The free version speedup was perfect while this version is to much. Especially when it comes to the music it’s just a bunch of insufferable noise. While on the […]