Itching to play old-school games, but your consoles have already bit the dust? Check out Afterplay.io, a website that lets you play GBA and SNES games right off your web browser.

Dustin Bailey of PCGamesN found a neat and easy way to play your GBA and SNES ROMs on your browser. The browser-based application Afterplay.io started as a pet project by a programmer named Patrick Corrigan. In April, he shared his work-in-progress on Reddit. Since then, community feedback has allowed him to vastly improve the application. He has since revealed that he has big plans for the website, and asks patrons to donate to support him in this project. Apart from GBA and SNES games, he would like to eventually add support for PlayStation and N64 games as well.

The browser works by using cloud storage to store ROMs online, including your save states, allowing you to access your games and save files on any device as long as you log in with the same account. The emulators Corrigan used for the browser application are mGBA for the GBA games and Snes9x for the SNES games.

So, with that introduction, how does Afterplay.io work exactly?

Play GBA and SNES ROMs right off your browser with Afterplay.io

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Using Afterplay.io is fairly easy. You just need to know a reputable source for downloadable GBA and SNES ROMs. Once you've downloaded them, you're ready to go. Head on over to Afterplay.io. You'll be welcomed by an empty screen. If you don't have any ROMs, you can check out the pre-uploaded one on the lower left side of the screen: Anguna: Warriors of Virtue. If you want to play other games, just click ‘Add Game' and upload a ROM. Once uploaded, the games you have will appear beside Anguna: Warriors of Virtue. Click the newly uploaded game, and you're good to go.

The advantage of Afterplay.io is you can leave your game and come back anytime, picking right from where you left off. Since save states are uploaded in the Cloud, you can pick up your game from any device as long as you use the same account. The Cloud saves your progress in your games once every twenty seconds, so you don't even have to worry about power outages. Currently, the emulators don't have other useful features such as fast-forward, hack and cheat support, or modding. Still, getting to play your favorite GBA games in full screen is a cool treat.