Homebrew Is GBA higher then SNES ???

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The GBA contained a GB/C CPU for backwards compatibility, but it was not used by GBA games.
When the DS came out, it removed this CPU.

Technically not quite true, there are a few GBA games that use the GB compatibility chip for music, Street fighter Alpha 3 at least did, to save rom space.
 

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Technically not quite true, there are a few GBA games that use the GB compatibility chip for music, Street fighter Alpha 3 at least did, to save rom space.

The GBZ80 is completely inaccessible in GBA mode and was in fact removed in the DS.
However, the 4 GB/C audio channels remained accessible and were commonly used in many GBA games. I believe they were also used on the DS, but that could do much better software audio mixing.
 

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For someone with a DSTwo or other DS mode flash cart, I recommend the GBARunner2. It's "a GBA hypervisor for DS. (like Nintendont for GC on Wii)". It can't save yet, but it has been running most games in playable states.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbarunner2.451970/
https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2

It's not really usable yet, but definitely watch this space. I have a 3-in-1 so I don't need to use GBARunner2, but it's definitely an interesting curiosity that I want to see mature.
 

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