Gaming Play GBA game on slot 1

[daniel709]

is there a software to play gba game on slot one flashcart without any slot 2 device?

 

[Feels Good Man]

No

 

[daniel709]

how much does a slot 2 card usually cost and can anyone recommend me good one

 

[mrgone]

ez flash 3-in-1 , paid 25 €

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

how much does a slot 2 card usually cost and can anyone recommend me good one

EZ Flash Slot 2 cards have excellent GBA compatibility.

Supercard Slot 2 cards have decent (not excellent) GBA compatibility, but they're cheap.

 

[Donato_Dobango]

I have an EZ Flash 3-In-1 that I got for about 19 dollars shipped.

If you do decide to get it, remember you might need to also download the latest edition of GBAExpLoader to load GBA homebrew/roms.

 

[Edgedancer]

If you want perfect compatibility but dont mind paying a bit more, get one of the M3 lites.

 

[kennypu]

btw, just a thought, since the DSi has 16mb memory, wouldn't it be possible if someone(not saying some1 will) just makes a gba emulator for the DS(i)? Ofcourse if there is a real hardware issue i wouldn't know, but just theoretically speaking shouldn't it be possible?

 

[Joe88]

I think the DS isnt powerful enough to emulate it
usually the unwritten rule is a system has to be 7x or more powerful to emulate the a system
even the PSP somewhat struggles with certain games

 

[kennypu]

well, following what you said, the DS emulates SNES just fine, or at least good enough.
SNES's spec is as follow(don't quote me on this):

cpu: about 21MHz
RAM: 128kb
VRAM: 64kb
DS's spec:

cpu: about 100MHz
RAM: 4mb
VRAM: 656kb
DSI spec:

cpu: 133MHz
RAM: 16mb
VRAM: unknown
internal memory: 256MB

now for the GBA:
QUOTE

cpu:16.8MHz
RAM:32kb
VRAM:96kb + 256kb WRAM(not sure what this is)

if you compare with the SNES, it's low on specs, other than the vram. I still don't see why it cannot be emulated on the DS, all I can think of is that there are some type of hardware problem or conflict or something :3

 

[wchill]

the DS ARM7 is running at 67MHz by the way.
The only thing that allowed us to even run SNES semi-decently on the DS was the similarity in graphics chips.