NO$GBA started as a Gameboy Advance debugger but was later released as a normal emulator(version 1.9). It is the first gameboy advance emulator to support multiplayer games on the same pc! Later versions added support for the NintendoDS portable console.
Ha, even NO$GBA DS emulator started out as a Debugger, but I was looking on wiki and they said this.
NO$GBA - Wikipedia
Emulator developer, Martin Korth, first created a Game Boy emulator for DOS in 1997. When the Gameboy Color was released in 1999, the emulator was upgraded to support Gameboy Color ROMs. The emulator was made shareware as for the upgrade, users were charged $10. The Gameboy Color emulation was copied by many other software crackers and released as freeware. Consequently, the emulator became freeware at the last stable release, 2.5.
NO$GBA Debugger - Wikipedia
The NO$GBA Debugger is development tool for testing and debugging of Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS ROMs, supporting source level debugging. The Debugger is designed for programmers and has been described as "completely useless to gamers" by Martin Korth. It is shareware with a price of $15 for home-use and $750 for a single commercial licence.
And it may not even take a few years for a PS3, XBOX 360/Kinect and Wii emulator to come out.
Nintendo DS - The Emulator Zone
The Nintendo DS is the most recent handheld system developed by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 and was the first handheld system to feature dual screens. In improved edition called the DS Lite was released in 2006. The term "Lite" refers to it having brighter screens, smaller size and lower weight, it still has the same features as the original.
So from that time tell NO$GBA 2.6a is how much and I heard it hasn't updated for a long time...Also doesn't a "a" in NO$GBA 2.6a mean Alpha which comes before Beta, which means that NO$GBA is most likely to Connect DS to DS the next time we see it.
I noticed the "Alpha which comes before Beta" when I found out
PCSX-Reloaded 19.92 was a Beta, but had "a" versions which might stand for Alpha before it and "b" meaning Beta.
That means NO$GBA 2.6a is an Alpha to what Beta.
Also you know that 3D Wolf Movie, Alpha & Omega, that means a Program goes from Alpha, Beta, Kappa & things in between to an Omega being the last, but an Alpha Male is usually the head Male/Father of Many Puppies...I just look that up in wiki Alpha means 1 and Omega means 800 in numeric Value...no wonder.