Game Boy on your Palm Pre? VisualBoyAdvance hits WebOS

VisualBoyAdvance is an open-source emulator for Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. If you want to relive the glory days of handheld gaming on your computer, it's pretty much your go-to app. But what if you'd rather play handheld games on, well, a handheld device? Palm Pre and Pixi owners can do just that, thanks to a port of VisualBoyAdvance for WebOS.

A very enticing video of Mario Kart running on a Pre [check it out after the jump!] makes me wish that something this cool - and dubiously legal - could ever slip through Apple's app store and onto my iPhone. (I can neither confirm nor deny that I once jailbroke an iPod Touch to play Final Fantasy for the NES.)

Apparently original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games run smoothly on a Pre, but you might get a little lag when playing Game Boy Advance ROMS. Still: Tetris! Super Mario Land! Kirby! I'm certainly not saying that Download Squad condones piracy, but it's very impressive that someone was able to get this running on WebOS.

[via PreCentral]

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