Retroarch hosts a lot of cores that you can download via the online updater in the Retroarch program. The Gameshell menu by default is set up with a few different Game Boy emulators: mGba, gpSP and a single standalone emulators, gpSP+.

Retroarch is basically a program that houses a whole heap of “cores” to run multiple ROM image types from different consoles. This was before things got updated and working, so just thought I’d clear that up before you read up too much information that is potentially out of date.Ī standalone emulators is called this because it runs standalone, without the need for Retroarch.

In the early days, people used to always say “Use a standalone emulator it’s faster.” This is a matter of choice! Sometimes having too much choice makes things hard, that’s for sure.