Hacking GBA on R4?

[Chitose]

I tried looking for this everywhere, including the review and searching, but couldn't find an answer to it.

Do GBA roms work on the R4? If so is it just drag a .gba file to it and play?

 

[Jax]

No.

 

[spokenrope]

Mark my words. Someone will find a way to play GBA games on an R4.

Of course, I have little to no experience in this subject, so I wouldn't make any wagers on this information. But I just see it happening sometime soon.

 

[2cb2ct7]

If it can be imagined it can be done

 

[GameGeezer]

It might be possible to get one running eventually but it would be so slow it probably wouldn't be worth the trouble. I don't think coders will have the motivation to create gba emulator since here is already a way to play gba games on your DS using a slot-2 cart. People worked for years to get an emulator running slowly on the dreamcast which is has a processor that is twice as powerful as the DS so I think it is unlikely for the DS as well. Get a cheap slot-2 or a gba cartridge and enjoy your slot-1 cart.

 

[kalibar]

Yeah, honestly I don't know why this topic keeps coming up -- it's borderline retarded. Play GBA games natively from slot-2, clownshoes.

 

[Wishmaster]

Maybe not emulate. Something to make the DS thinks the rom comes from slot-2.

Someone's smart enough to hack DS's RSA encryption.. so I thought.. why not?

 

[corbs132]

its not about which slot, its about the bandwith from the ds slot being slower than that of the gba slot.

 

[dslitemonkey]

Out of curiosity, why is the bandwidth on Slot1 slower than Slot2?

 

[Wishmaster]

I think the way DS functions is it loads from the cart a portion of the game and stores it in it's RAM.

Whereas the entire GBA cart is a RAM itself.

 

[stonefry]

I tried looking for this everywhere, including the review and searching, but couldn't find an answer to it.
Do GBA roms work on the R4? If so is it just drag a .gba file to it and play?
From the R4 review...slot 1 devices currently have no way of running GBA ROMs.

Thank you, and goodnight.

 

[Modrak]

it's borderline retarded

total agreement here, borderline retarded was the phrase I was finding my way to