One day when I was watching Youtube I saw People making Gameboy Advance Macro's out of their old DS/DS Lites and that when it got me thinking "Why don't we make a firmware for the Macro!"
Is it possible?
Is it possible?
last i checked you can flash your ds to make its region worldwide. i think im wrong though that might be for the ds download station.
FlashMe works quite differently to what OP was suggesting, if I read it correctly
The main problem with Flashme as I understand it was that the amount of space that could be used for new functionality was so limited that they could barely implement anything extra. I imagine what the OP would like to do would be something along the lines of taking out the DS-specific functionality and then implement extra GBA functionality instead.
The only thing FlashMe really does is remove the H&W screen, autoboot a GBA flashcard in NDS mode and make the handheld brick proof (if you brick it with one of the 2 DS brickers, you can flash FlashMe back to the unit with a GBA cart)
Unfortunately, there's very little, if anything that can be added to the GBA mode of the DS.
The hardware is simply to weak and there's no ports that GBA mode can access.
DS is region free.
DSi is the only DS with a region lock.
Unfortunately, there's very little, if anything that can be added to the GBA mode of the DS.
The hardware is simply to weak and there's no ports that GBA mode can access.
DS is region free.
DSi is the only DS with a region lock.
If flashme can force boot the DS in various slots and modes then force booting GBA slot is doable enough (you are not doing any functionality, probably just adding a few NOPs to the boot slot loop to force GBA mode on GBA slot) and as you can already select the GBA screen in firmware that too is just going to be forcing a certain outcome for a loop/check.
I would certainly like some kind of terminate and stay resident or active mods, the DS side of things of http://fwnitro.caitsith2.net/ had something but GBA mode is a reboot affair so that might be harder.
That said if you are certain DS mode will not be used again you might be able to snag some of the space used by the wifi settings (the DS was so touch and go they added wifi to later games presumably so as to avoid having to pay out for the wifi intellectual property).
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Eventhough the New 3DS XL is more powerful, I still feel like the DS Lite was a more polished system. It's a real shame that it never got an XL variant keeping the GBA slot. You'd have to go on AliExpress and buy an ML shell to give a DS phat the unofficial "DS Lite" treatment, and that's the best we'll ever get I'm afraid.+1 -
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@Jayro, I don't see whats so special about the DS ML, its just a DS lite in a phat shell. At least the phat model had louder speakers, whereas the lite has a much better screen.+1 -
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SylverReZ:
They probably said "Hey, why not we combine the two together and make a 'new' DS to sell".
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Veho:
Nothing special about it other than it's more comfortable than the Lite+1
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The Real Jdbye:
@SylverReZ if you could find a v5 DS ML you would have the best of both worlds since the v5 units had the same backlight brightness levels as the DS Lite unlockable with flashme -
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BigOnYa:
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BakerMan:
anyways, we need to re-normalize physical media+1
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BigOnYa:
Agreed, that why I try to buy all my games on disc, Xbox anyways. Switch games (which I pirate tbh) don't matter much, I stay offline 24/7 anyways.
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cearp:
@BakerMan - you can still "own" digital media, arguably easier and better than physical since you can make copies and backups, as much as you like.
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cearp:
You can buy drm free games / music / ebooks, and if you keep backups of your data (like documents and family photos etc), then you shouldn't lose the game. but with a disk, your toddler could put it in the toaster and there goes your $60
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