Comparison

Linking Boy vs Wrong Way

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Linking Boy

Experience fast and feature-rich emulation for Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy games. Enjoy multiplayer Link cable emulation, unlock achievements with RetroAchievements, and customize your gameplay with speed control, cheats, and enhanced visual options.

Highlights
  • Fast GBA/GBC/GB emulation
  • Link cable multiplayer
  • RetroAchievements support
  • Speed control (fast-forward/slow-down)
  • Cheat support
  • Customizable virtual controls
  • Save states
Features
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Linkboy is the successor to the popular My Boy! emulator, offering fastest GBA/GBC/GB emulation with unique features like Link and RetroAchievements. KEY FEATURES • Optimized performance — smooth, efficient emulation with minimal battery use • High compatibility — runs nearly all games flawlessly • Link cable emulation — play up to 4 players via local network or on the same device • RetroAchievements support — unlock achievements while you play • Speed control — fast-forward up to 100× or slow down for detailed play. • Cheat support — codes for multiple systems • Cartridge features emulation — gyroscope, light sensor, rumble • Controller & keyboard support — flexible many-to-many button mappings • Customizable virtual controls — move, resize, and configure buttons freely • Save states — multiple slots, save and load anytime • Visual enhancements — combine multiple GPU shaders for a new look • Manage game folders — easily add, remove, or organize your game collection • Modern UI — clean design with Material You styling DISCLAIMER This app is not affiliated with, authorized, endorsed, or licensed in any way by Nintendo, its affiliates, or subsidiaries. No games are included. Screenshots feature either public domain titles or copyrighted works owned by their respective rights holders. IGRS Rating: 3+ — by the Indonesia Game Rating System (IGRS).

About

Wrong Way

Features
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Every move looks right. Only one keeps you alive. A board full of cells. One rule tells you which one is safe. You have seconds, not more. Get it right, keep climbing. Get it wrong, the run ends there, and the only way back is to start again. That sounds like every reflex puzzle you've played. The difference is what happens before you ever see the board. PROVEN FAIR, NOT JUST TESTED Every board is checked solvable before it's shown to you, not "usually," not "in practice," checked, every time, before the deal is dealt. A run that kills you did so because of a decision, never because of a board that had no right answer. When a rule can be misread as another rule, the generator refuses to build that board. Losing is always yours to own. SEVEN RULES, ONE VOCABULARY Start with a marked cell. Then colour and shape split apart, and you carry both. Then the marking reverses: take the opposite of what's shown. Then there's nothing marked at all, and you go by what was safe the time before. Every rule reuses what the last one taught; nothing new is asked of you that the game hasn't already shown you how to read. TWO WAYS TO PLAY The endless run is one, and it's below. CHALLENGE is the other: the same seven rules, taught one at a time, across 130 levels in eight bands. A mistake costs the level and nothing else, and the faster you clear one, the more of its three stars it keeps. THE ENDLESS RUN, AND HOW FAR YOU GOT It does not end on its own. A single mistake ends it, and the only question left is how far you got before it did. Your best stands on a leaderboard, three small goals attach to the run you were already playing, and the skins and titles you unlock stay unlocked. COLOUR-BLIND SAFE, ON PURPOSE The four colours a board can ask you to read were chosen so they stay distinguishable under the three common forms of colour blindness, not approximated, checked. A safety cue and a colour cue never land on the same cell, so misreading one never costs you a run that was actually fine. WHAT MONEY BUYS, AND WHAT IT DOESN'T Skins change what the board looks like. They never change a shape's timing, a rule's difficulty, or which cell is safe. Every skin passes the same readability check the default board does, or it doesn't ship. Buy a skin, or earn it by playing; either way, it's yours for good, on every device you sign in with. Daily goals give everyone the same three small tasks, every day, and they attach to the run you were already playing, no second mode to open, no timer competing with the one already on the board. WHAT LEAVES YOUR DEVICE There is no account, and the game keeps no analytics of its own. Two things do reach the network, and both are named here rather than buried: Adverts. An interstitial runs between runs, served by Google AdMob. You are asked for consent first, and on iOS for tracking permission on top of that. Decline either one and nothing about the game changes. The adverts just stop being tailored to you. Removing them altogether is a one-off purchase. Bug reports, and only the ones you send. The screen shows the entire message first, attached board included, and nothing goes anywhere until you tap send.

Screenshots

Linking Boy4 screens
Wrong Way4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Linking Boy at none against Wrong Way's shown. Linking Boy also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Wrong Way's advantage is update cadence (daily vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Linking Boy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wrong Way sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Linking Boy ships an update monthly, Wrong Way daily. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Linking Boy versus Wrong Way: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinking BoyWrong Way
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPixel Respawn LLCMARIO DIRR

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Linking Boy

One-time1
  • Premium Features$5.99
6 purchases

Wrong Way

One-time6
  • Neon$0.99
  • Frost$2.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
Show 3 more
  • Galaxy$3.99
  • Glitch$3.99
  • Supporter Bundle$3.99

Questions

Is Linking Boy free?
Linking Boy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wrong Way free?
Wrong Way is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Linking Boy or Wrong Way have ads?
Wrong Way shows ads; Linking Boy does not.
Which is updated more often, Linking Boy or Wrong Way?
Linking Boy ships an update monthly, and Wrong Way daily. Most recently, Linking Boy was updated on October 10, 2026 and Wrong Way on October 2, 2026.

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