Hacking Can you play GBA Roms on a DS Flash Card?

[JumboFatCakes]

I am just curious, what are the technical reasons why we can't play GBA games on slot-1 cards? I know it can't do it, I am just wondering why.

Yeah, why can't we? What's the technical reason?

and the whole "CuZ iTz NoT a SlOt 2 CaRd" is not good enough.

The DS does not have a slot for an NES cartridge, or a SNES cartridge, or even a PC disk spot, yet they can be played off a Slot 2 card.

 

[SlashRockMan]

So You can't play Gba Roms on flash card thats sucks....

 

[BakuFunn]

You people might be more confused by this but-

I remember when someone came up with the method for running GBA on slot-1's.
LINK

The whole point is that You have to basically creat a hypervisor
IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ

GBA games can be played from the DS’s GBA slot, however it was long thought they could never run from a DS flashcard in the DS slot due to hardware restrictions.

A friend and fellow programmer has already created a proof-of-concept demo which can run commercial GBA games without sound but at full speed from the DS slot, Normmatt said.

A hypervisor, used to translate the GBA graphics and sound hardware to work on the DS hardware, would need to be created for this approach to work.(for each game!)

“Using the hypervisor approach you can get full speed, maybe even faster, not to mention you could potentially add things such as save states etc, but first someone would need to create a hypervisor and release it to the public.”

It is impossible to use a software emulation approach (like SNEmulDS, nesDS or Goomba) to emulate a GBA game from the DS slot at a solid frame rate.



NOW READ THIS

Rather than making a lengthy reply questioning wtf a "hypervisor" is and how it differs from the definition of an emulator, I'll just say that it's been debated too long and doesn't need to be brought up again.

Could software emulation be possible? Of course. Would it be playable? Heck no. Look at the DS emulator for the PSP; that's what I'm expecting a GBA emu for the DS would be like.

NOW DONT ASK FOR THE HYPERVISOR
Creating a hypervisor for release to the public is not a quick and simple job and would require a lot of work.

“It is technically possible it’s just no developer has the time or patience to redo something the hardware does natively.”

HERE IS THE LINK. CLICK IT IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT A HYPERVISOR IS.

AGAIN, HERE IS THE LINK!

 

[Big Green]

I knew it was possible.

 

[blaze3000]

wow but it looks complx no wonder no wants to mack one but theres a new ds in japan now and it lits you store gba games on it allredy it's called DSi and it has so much power that mii can be used on it now and thay added a camra and theres no gba slot on the the thing so if you want to play them on this your going to have to mack one I dont know when it will be avalbel to the rest of the worl or evin if it will ever come out to the rest of the world

hears a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLnlzI0mLk

 

[JCWM]

 

[tj_cool]

no one word smiley posts
and its $5 for bumping without reason

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Stupid BUMP!