Homebrew GBA Emulator for DSiPlayer

[Don9aldo]

I haven't got a clue about how to install this on my SD Card. I have the latest update of iPlayer. I've dumped the English GBA Emulator into the _system folder and I've put a gba rom onto the card. It refuses to work for me! Can anyone help?

Sorry for the noobish question.

 

[Modular511]

you need gba_bios.bin

 

[Don9aldo]

Could you go into a little more detail there?

 

[wolfmanz51]

you need gba_bios.bin

no you dont

 

[Fatbob123]

you have to put first put ndsgba folder in the systam and and the other folders on the pulgins

 

[Valguerra]

What is an Iplayer?

 

[ProtoKun7]

In this context, the iPlayer is a flashcart for DS/DSL/DSi that primarily plays multiple video formats (i.e. not bound by DPG, it can play AVI and FLV and stuff too) and also plays homebrew, and currently houses the only Slot 1 GBA emulator in existence.

 

[how_do_i_do_that]

This is the iplayer:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26437

 

[Don9aldo]

I have it all in the right places and its working, but it freezes on the "Homebrew loading" page. Could it be a problem with the ROM?

 

[Highditto]

If you are trying to load straight from the GBA rom, you might have a bad rom. The best way to check is to try loading the Emulator, if that starts then it's a bad rom but if the emulator won't start then you have something in the wrong place. If the emulator won't load your best bet is to delete your "_system" folder and reinstall everything, this way you can start fresh and you won't have to go looking for things that might be in the wrong spots.

you should put the Emulator here: Y:\_system\plugins\
(In my case Y: is my drive letter, yours is most likely different)

and you should have all of these files there plus any other home brews you have/will have on the card:
NDSGBA - folder with other folders in it
gba1.bmp
gba.bmp
gba.ini
gba.plg

If you are missing something re-download the emulator, and don't forget that if you delete the "_system" folder you will have reinstall the IPlayer software.

 

[ChrisMims]

In this context, the iPlayer is a flashcart for DS/DSL/DSi that primarily plays multiple video formats (i.e. not bound by DPG, it can play AVI and FLV and stuff too) and also plays homebrew, and currently houses the only Slot 1 GBA emulator in existence.

Lol at all of the people who said it will NEVER happen

 

[fearofshorts]

Well, with the information they had, it was impossible. Nobody could have predicted the iPlayer's release.

 

[david432111]

In this context, the iPlayer is a flashcart for DS/DSL/DSi that primarily plays multiple video formats (i.e. not bound by DPG, it can play AVI and FLV and stuff too) and also plays homebrew, and currently houses the only Slot 1 GBA emulator in existence.

Lol at all of the people who said it will NEVER happen

The only reason it happened was because the iplayer has extra processing power and the gba emulator uses that extra power to emulate gba games. No one could predict that a company would make a flash cart with extra ram and processing power.

 

[Veho]

Lol at all of the people who said it will NEVER happen

People said the iPlayer would never run a GBA emulator? When was that?

 

[ProtoKun7]

I think he just meant a GBA emulator in general, not necessarily an iPlayer one

 

[TrolleyDave]

In this context, the iPlayer is a flashcart for DS/DSL/DSi that primarily plays multiple video formats (i.e. not bound by DPG, it can play AVI and FLV and stuff too) and also plays homebrew, and currently houses the only Slot 1 GBA emulator in existence.

Lol at all of the people who said it will NEVER happen

And it still hasn't happened in the way you're trying to imply, there is not and nor will their ever be a GBA emulator for a generic slot-1 device. The emulator is for the iPlayer only. So in effect there's still no GBA emulator for the DS, there's a GBA emulator for the iPlayer which plays on a DS.

 

[Don9aldo]

The iPlayer version has to be 1.2 right. And the 2GB SD should be formatted to FAT, done that. All the files which were in the EN plugin folder for the emulator download should now be in the plugin folder in the _system folder, ticked that box.

The icon for the emulator shows up in the Homebrew section of the iPlayer fine, and yet it still freezes when I try to load it! Unless it's supposed to take hours to load up, (I'm not prepared to wait that long for an emulator) I think its busted. Maybe I should go back to playing the GBA on the Wii.

... At least I can still watch bleach on it.

 

[Highditto]

Well it sounds like you've done everything right, so I'm at a loss. All I can think of is to try again and see if it works, I got mine running with no problems (except I still can't figure out how the cheat codes work). If I can think of anything else that might Help I'll let you know but until then enjoy Bleach.

 

[BlackDave]

In this context, the iPlayer is a flashcart for DS/DSL/DSi that primarily plays multiple video formats (i.e. not bound by DPG, it can play AVI and FLV and stuff too) and also plays homebrew, and currently houses the only Slot 1 GBA emulator in existence.

Why such a powerful slot 1 cart cannot play fresh nds dumps?

 

[jphriendly]

Why such a powerful slot 1 cart cannot play fresh nds dumps?

That's how it was designed. It was never meant to be used for commercial roms.