is it possible to play gba romhacks (eg light platinum, liquid crystal) on a nintendo ds with a r4 card?
Playing GBA romhacks on DS?
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I dunno, but the DS forum is next door. Someone there probably knows. You might need a GBA flashcart rather than a DS one.
If you have a DS Phat/Lite and not a DSi, you're gonna want to get a GBA flashcart. The available options for playing GBA games using only a DS flashcart are not that great.
Every ROM hack I've tried, in .nds format, has worked for me off a modern R4 card. For older ones, you may have to use DLDI Tool on the nds file to get it to work. Admittedly, I've only tried two and just to see if they'd load.
Edit: I misread. You're talking about GBA ROM hacks, not Nintendo DS ROM hacks. My bad.
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Last I looked many years ago the only ways to play GBA games on the DS involved something in slot 2 (GBA flashcart or Ez flash 3 in 1).
These days unless you want the extra functionality, the GBA flash cart might be the better option.
These days unless you want the extra functionality, the GBA flash cart might be the better option.
Just get GBABF for your R4 card, and use it to flash romhacks onto bootleg carts from AliExpress. That's what I do. Custom labels can be made on Etsy.
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Veho:
Nothing special about it other than it's more comfortable than the Lite+1
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The Real Jdbye:
@SylverReZ if you could find a v5 DS ML you would have the best of both worlds since the v5 units had the same backlight brightness levels as the DS Lite unlockable with flashme -
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BigOnYa:
A woman with no arms and no legs was sitting on a beach. A man comes along and the woman says, "I've never been hugged before." So the man feels bad and hugs her. She says "Well i've also never been kissed before." So he gives her a kiss on the cheek. She says "Well I've also never been fucked before." So the man picks her up, and throws her in the ocean and says "Now you're fucked."+2 -
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anyways, we need to re-normalize physical media+1
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Agreed, that why I try to buy all my games on disc, Xbox anyways. Switch games (which I pirate tbh) don't matter much, I stay offline 24/7 anyways.
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@BakerMan - you can still "own" digital media, arguably easier and better than physical since you can make copies and backups, as much as you like.
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You can buy drm free games / music / ebooks, and if you keep backups of your data (like documents and family photos etc), then you shouldn't lose the game. but with a disk, your toddler could put it in the toaster and there goes your $60
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i like physical media because it actually feels like you own it. thats why i plan on burning music to cds -
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@rqkaiju2, Physical media is a great source for archiving your data, none of that cloud storage shiz.+1 -
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[squeezes @SylverReZ onto a physical media, then archives you in my old stuff box]...
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