Hacking R4 and 3-in-1 with emulators.

[Cletebob]

I have read that some emulators designed for slot-2 carts work better than the ones designed for slot-1 carts. My question is how do you load the emulator/games using the 3-in-1 and the R4. I know with the slot-1 emulators, you can load games from the memory in slot 1, but I am not sure how this works in slot 2 with out its own memory to load games from (3-in-1).

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[myuusmeow]

Most GBA emulators require you to pack the ROMs into the .gba file. They should have info in their readmes.

 

[Eyedunno]

I'm pretty sure that for the most part, DS emulators work better than GBA emulators (due to much more processing power).

Most DS emulators (the worthwhile ones anyway) support either slot-1 or slot-2, so I recommend just running them from slot-1. There are a FEW (SNEmulDS and minivmac come to mind) that will use the RAM on slot-2. However, even with those, you can (and should) just run them from slot-1, and the extra RAM should be autodetected.

So don't worry about it. Just run them from slot-1 with your 3-in-1 in slot-2, and everything should be fine.