Hacking Adding ability to play GBA with R4

[championboxer]

yeah... would be good to know more abt that...
thks!

 

[Casio1279]

Emm, just order a r4 from gameyeeeah, i also like to play gba games, it's great to know more about that.

 

[warlock110]

Emm, just order a r4 from gameyeeeah, i also like to play gba games, it's great to know more about that.

i think most will recommend a slot 2 solution like the EZ4 delux for GBA games.

 

[funkmasta]

The EZ4 is almost like a redundant device to the R4 because it can play DS games too. I want something that would only play GBA games and thus, possibly be cheaper due to that limitation.

 

[warlock110]

The EZ4 is almost like a redundant device to the R4 because it can play DS games too. I want something that would only play GBA games and thus, possibly be cheaper due to that limitation.

yeah, i doubt that's gonna happen any time soon... the GBA is not a main thing for the NDS... further more you're buying it for the aesthetic of it... it fits in right... and its not sticking out... 10-20 bucks ain't that much more IMO... not like you'll have to get a new one every month.

 

[aphexpusher]

can you play gba games through a slot 2 device without having some sort of passme?

 

[faceless]

can you play gba games through a slot 2 device without having some sort of passme?

yes, gba works fine from slot-2 with no passme

 

[funkmasta]

So any other opinions for what I should do?

 

[malerik]

I got a 128megabit flashadvance for my original gba when it came out in japan. One of the oldest gba carts there is. Requires eeprom patching, has no internal clock, max of 4 games regardless of size and cant play the largest games (kingdom hearts). I thought that with the r4's plug-thru option i would be ok, but apparently not.
I can occasionally get to the title screen or so of the game before it lets out a tortured screech and crashes.
This annoys me as stupid ff6 waited till i got a ds to get released so now i have to use stupid useless not backlight gba instead of my minature sun.

 

[miniCooperS]

if you're using the flashadvance in GBA mode, you wouldn't use the r4's passme option. That is only if you want to boot your slot 2 card in ds mode. If you boot your card like a regular gba game it should work fine, unless I misunderstood you.

My Xrom 512 works just fine on my DSLite for gba games.

As to the original topic, I have a g6 lite that i'm using almost exclusively for gba games with my m3 ds simply. Thats my solution and i love it.

 

[pristinemog]

I too have one of those Visoly FlashAdvance cards that came out way back during the GBA's birth. It was a 64Mb and drained the battery of my original GBA in about 3 hours. Good times. Doesn't work with Boot Slot-2.

 

[pristinemog]

I too have one of those Visoly FlashAdvance cards that came out way back during the GBA's birth. It was a 64Mb and drained the battery of my original GBA in about 3 hours. Good tim

 

[malerik]

if you're using the flashadvance in GBA mode, you wouldn't use the r4's passme option. That is only if you want to boot your slot 2 card in ds mode. If you boot your card like a regular gba game it should work fine, unless I misunderstood you.

My Xrom 512 works just fine on my DSLite for gba games.

As to the original topic, I have a g6 lite that i'm using almost exclusively for gba games with my m3 ds simply. Thats my solution and i love it.

It should, but it doesnt. booting normally or when using the r4 as a passme has the same result. horrible bloopy death. my one and only genuine gba game, tony hawks 2, works just fine, so its not the ds. If someone found a solution for this i would knight them as i wanna play ff6 again but cant bring myself to use me scratched to heck and back, battery cover-less, headphone socket doesnt work, l button sticks GBA.

Poor GBA. You were so good to me, and I tried to be good to you, but my keys had to go in that pocket too...

And pristinemog, a 64mbit? OUCH, there are so many great games you can't play on that! I'm only missing kingdom hearts! But yes, 3 hour battery life IF YOU'RE LUCKY! Rechargeables FTW!