Development on the original VisualBoyAdvance stopped in 2004 with version 1.8.0 beta 3, and a number of forked versions were made by various developers in the years since then, such as VisualBoyAdvance-M. When this person left the development of the emulator, the project was handed over to a team named 'VBA Team', led by Forgotten's brother. The VisualBoyAdvance project was started by a developer under the online alias 'Forgotten'.
