This Imaginative and prescient Professional Digital Boy emulator isn’t fancy, nevertheless it will get the job completed

The Imaginative and prescient Professional obtained its first Digital Boy emulator in an app known as VirtualFriend, lastly giving me, an individual with an irrational love for Nintendo’s most short-lived console, an opportunity to play it in immersive 3D as soon as extra. The app can also be out there for iOS and iPadOS, the place it’s a nearly an identical expertise, minus the 3D impact.

The primary video games I performed after downloading VirtualFriend have been these I owned as a child: Pink Alarm, Wario Land, and Mario’s Tennis. I’m happy to say that other than some minor audio glitches in Pink Alarm, the video games run properly — it’s all simply as I bear in mind it.

VirtualFriend helps Bluetooth controllers and keyboard management on the Imaginative and prescient Professional, in addition to touchscreen buttons in case you’re enjoying on an iPhone or iPad. Visually, the video games look pretty much as good as a Digital Boy recreation can and have just a little assist from the app, which helps you to customise the console’s two-tone shade palette. VirtualFriend additionally has an eye fixed adjustment slider that helps alter the picture in case you discover a explicit recreation isn’t working for you.

The large lacking options are controller mapping and the power to save lots of your recreation at any level utilizing save states. (Developer Adam Gastineau acknowledged the latter in an open concern on the undertaking’s GitHub web page.)

Nonetheless, VirtualFriend is simple to suggest in case you’re in any respect interested in enjoying Digital Boy video games or, like me, you as soon as owned and beloved the console. It’s free with the choice to tip the developer, doesn’t present advertisements, and in line with its App Retailer itemizing, received’t accumulate your knowledge. It’s simply good, clear, mid-90s VR enjoyable.