I'm interested in being able to play my GBA, GBC, GB, NES (maybe snes and genesis) roms on my DS. What is my best option for doing this? I hear a lot about the R4 being awesome, but I haven't heard it being capable of playing all these types of roms, unless I'm wrong?
Last edited by pote; 25th-June-2007 at 18:50.
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There are already emulators in the works for the R4 and M3 Simply to run other system's games on the DS. I know there is a GB/GBC emulator for it called LameBoy (named after an actual PC GB/GBC emulator) that is coming along very well. I've tried all the old Pokemon games on it and there are only a few things that seem to be wrong with it such as video and sound bugs and it's missing the RTC feature for Diamond and Crystal but other then that it seems to work very well.
I know there is a GBA emulator in the works but I haven't seen too much info on it. I'm also not sure how popular it is going to be since you can still play GBA games on the DS by using a slot-2 flash card.
As for any other emulator, I'm going to have to do some digging to find out. In the meantime you can always use Google and see what you can find. That's what I do when I look for things anyway.
Winner of trophies.
I suggest you buy a psp or a gp2x. Seriously worth the investment.
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Buying a PSP might not necessarily be too many people's problem, it's modding it to run homebrew which you don't have to do with the NDS. The only mod that has ever come out for the NDS is a firmware hack to make the DS boot DS software from the GBA slot without the need for a Passme device but it's not a required thing like it is with the PSP. I personally don't want to support Sony anymore then I have to to get what I want.Originally Posted by sharp
Winner of trophies.
Then a gp2x. It's what I have. I suggested psp because it can do n64 and ps1 emulation better. I'm pretty sure gp2x is better for gba.
Cookie Thief
yeah gba emulation is solid on the gp2x now, almost every game that I've tried runs flawlessly.
The gp2x sounds like an interesting idea. How about the M3 for the DS? I've been doing some research and that seems to be a good idea (though I don't see a built-in SNES emulator for it...Can I install an SNES emulator to it?) I assume the slot-2 version is what I'd need. Anyone here have an M3?
Cookie Thief
yeah you can install whatever emulator you want to it, but by far the ds is the worst hand held out there for emulation. Not to stop you from getting a m3 or anything.
What's so horrible about DS emulation?
Cookie Thief
Has the lowest resolution screen out of the gp2x and psp which means scaling!! slowest specs and such. i didn't say it was horrible though.
Edit: anyways on the left menu keep scrolling down and you will see a nice big list of available emulators for the ds
http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/
So if I get an M3 or something, the compatibility of the roms will be based on the emulator being used, not the M3 cart itself, correct?
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The only thing wrong with NDS emulation is that it hasn't been perfected yet mostly because of the recent release of slot-1 devices several years after then NDS' release while other system's like the PSP have been hack shortly after release forcing the devs to update the firmware on newer versions and forcing the emu community to come up with new ways to get around them. With the new slot-1 devices for the NDS the only issues I've seen is with wifi support where newer systems are blocking homebrew access to the wifi feature but unlike Sony, Nintendo isn't forcing people to update their firmware.
The only reason the PSP has a larger screen is because Sony released as a multimedia device where the NDS is made for games, nothing more. Sure the PSP can do a whole lot more then the NDS as far as multimedia and emulation (mostly due to it's enhanced hardware) but I don't see too many people getting the PSP for it's games. Most just use it as a multimedia player or hack it to play games from other systems while the NDS has new games released for it all the time that people still play and these flash card are helping to get more people to play NDS games that can't afford them.
Ok I think I'm done ranting for now. (I hate Sony if you haven't notice. The PS2 was their last "good" system IMHO and I don't want to fund their want to make new forms of copy protection any more.)
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Pretty much although with so many people trying to support these emulators and since they're only coding for one set of hardware it won't be long before they are finally perfected.
Last edited by Haldrie; 22nd-June-2007 at 17:17.
Cookie Thief
i didn't say anything about screen size, i said resolution.
Mod God cometh.
Okay here's the thing. The M3 is a flash cart for the GBA, so you aren't actually emulating GBA, you are just kinda like fooling the NDS into thinking that you've put an actual GBA cartridge in slot-2 (which is the GBA slot of NDS), so there is no question of emulation in this case at all. M3 I think will play all the GBA games you throw at it in your DSso if you are interested in playing GBA games on your NDS, then you should go ahead with it.
Also, AFAIK getting a M3 will also open doors to booting GBA homebrew on your NDS, which might include an SNES emulator (although I don't know much about it)
Last edited by Kazekage Gaara; 22nd-June-2007 at 17:34.
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...well it has a 4:3 resolution which is the same as home cosole's so why does it have to be scaled?
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