Editing Game Boy Advance (section)

===Digital re-releases===
{{see also|Virtual Console}}
{{Confusing|section|date=February 2024|reason=Satoru Iwata ''actually'' announced the GBA games on Wii U in 2013, and later confirmed them in February 2014, both as part of [[Nintendo Direct]]}}
Since the Game Boy Advance was discontinued, many of its games have been [[re-release]]d via [[digital distribution]] on later Nintendo consoles, mainly in the form of [[Video game console emulation|emulation]]. As part of an Ambassador Program for early adopters of the [[Nintendo 3DS]] system, ten GBA games, along with ten [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] games, were made available free for players who bought a 3DS system before the price drop on August 12, 2011.<ref name="Pricedrop">{{Cite press release |title=Nintendo 3DS Price Drops to $169.99, as Great Value and New 3D Games Come Together |date=July 28, 2011 |publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of America]] |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110728005623/en/Nintendo-3DS-Price-Drops-to-169.99-as-Great-Value-and-New-3D-Games-Come-Together |quote=By the end of 2011, Nintendo will provide Ambassadors with 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. These include games like ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3'', ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'', ''Metroid Fusion'', ''WarioWare'', ''Inc.: Mega Microgame', and ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong''. These games were made available to Ambassadors, and Nintendo has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on the Nintendo 3DS in the future. |access-date=May 18, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518192933/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110728005623/en/Nintendo-3DS-Price-Drops-to-169.99-as-Great-Value-and-New-3D-Games-Come-Together |archive-date=May 18, 2022}}</ref> Unlike other [[Virtual Console]] games for the system, features such as the Home menu or save states are missing, since the games are running natively instead of via emulation. In January 2014, Nintendo President [[Satoru Iwata]] announced that Game Boy Advance games would be released on the [[Wii U]]'s Virtual Console in April 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wii U - Virtual Console |url=https://www.nintendo.com/wiiu/downloads/virtual-console |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124122013/http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu/downloads/virtual-console/ |archive-date=January 24, 2014 |access-date=July 26, 2016}}</ref> The first set of GBA games, including ''[[Advance Wars]]'', ''[[Metroid Fusion]]'', and ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', were released on April 3, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Michael |first=Jay |date=March 31, 2014 |title=Wii U Virtual Console News: GameBoy Advance Classics Arrive in April; Nintendo Announces Metroid Fusion, Advance Wars, and More. On the DS there is a slot for GBA games. |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/wii-u-virtual-console-news-gameboy-advance-classics-arrive-in-april-nintendo-announces-metroid-fusion-advance-wars-and-more-117137/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085707/http://www.christianpost.com/news/wii-u-virtual-console-news-gameboy-advance-classics-arrive-in-april-nintendo-announces-metroid-fusion-advance-wars-and-more-117137/ |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |access-date=April 3, 2014 |website=Christian Post}}</ref> All Virtual Console releases are single-player only, as they do not emulate multiplayer features enabled by [[Game Link]] cables.

In February 2023, Nintendo added Game Boy Advance games to the [[Nintendo Classics]] library for its [[Nintendo Switch Online]] service, exclusively to those with the ''Expansion Pack'' tier.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Webster |first=Andrew |date=February 9, 2023 |title=Game Boy games make Nintendo Switch Online feel like the ultimate retro subscription |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/9/23592549/nintendo-switch-online-retro-subscription-game-boy-gba |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=[[The Verge]]}}</ref> For the first time, players are able to play multiplayer games in their emulated form, online. This application emulates the [[Game Boy Player]], meaning that games that support GameCube controller rumble work with the vibration of the Switch controllers.