Are there any GBA homebrew projects which are worth downloading? I recently got my Slot-2 device running GBA games and was wondering what the best homebrew GBA games and apps were.
psilas said:There are LOTS of free GBA homebrew games out there.
The best ones IMHO are as follows........
Uranus 1,2 and 3
Simonchu
Beru
Gemini
Batle Picross
Wall Breaker
Blast Arena
Wonkie Guy
Panic@work
Bustamove
Simon 2
Motocross Challenge
Sudoku Micro
Elite-the new kind
Airwing Assault
and others that you'll have to find yourself.
Have fun!
GBA games do not run off the miniSD card. All GBA files are copied into the Supercard's RAM and executed from there. RAM is faster than SD cards, so the games run, but the Supercard's RAM is just slightly too slow, causing slowdowns in some games. DS games on the other hand are designed to be run from NAND-type media, similar to SD cards, so there it's the speed of the SD card that matters, not the RAM.Jamstruth said:Its not, I had slow down while drifting in Mario kart even when running off its miniSD!
QUOTE said:The GBA starts up with its ROM interface set to a wait state of 4/2 cycles: it will wait 4 cycles for the first 16-bit word of a transfer and 2 cycles for each additional 16-bit word. Official GBA Game Paks are capable of a wait state of 3/1 cycles, and one of the first thing that an official game will usually do is reprogram the GBA's ROM interface to work at 3/1 wait state. However, the 32 MB RAM in the SuperCard does not work at 3/1; to allow games to work, the SuperCard patcher prevents the game from reprogramming the ROM interface. (If you have a DS, a SuperCard, and a SuperKey or other NoPass card, you can demonstrate this using memtestARM: the RAM tests will fail for any speed faster than 4/2.)