radical red on a ds flashcart

[thalassaphobia]

hi im weondering if its possible to get radical red to run on a ds flashcart? ive heard its possible with a gba slot one but id rather not shell out the 80 dollars for it if i can avoid it, and im pretty sure base firered can run on gbarunner2 so im wondering if its possible to get romhacks like radical red to work. pictured is the flashcart im using if that matters. i also have ysmenu set up, though i dont really get how any of this works

 

[Kwyjor]

hi im weondering if its possible to get radical red to run on a ds flashcart? ive heard its possible with a gba slot one but id rather not shell out the 80 dollars for it if i can avoid it, and im pretty sure base firered can run on gbarunner2 so im wondering if its possible to get romhacks like radical red to work. pictured is the flashcart im using if that matters. i also have ysmenu set up, though i dont really get how any of this works

The particular flashcart doesn't really matter. But it's entirely possible the hack won't run on GBARunner2 regardless of what cart you're using. You should search around and see if other people have done that.

 

[x65943]

Unless something has changed, I recall base DS flashcards being awful at GBA emulation

DS2 cards were better because they had a processor in the cart (I think?)

Probably best bet would be running via DSi cfw

 

[thalassaphobia]

Unless something has changed, I recall base DS flashcards being awful at GBA emulation

DS2 cards were better because they had a processor in the cart (I think?)

Probably best bet would be running via DSi cfw

what is dsi cfw? i dont know what a lot of those words mean im very new to all this and ive never been super techy, is that something i could do without buying a new flashcart? i also only have a ds lite, not a dsi

 

[x65943]

what is dsi cfw? i dont know what a lot of those words mean im very new to all this and ive never been super techy, is that something i could do without buying a new flashcart? i also only have a ds lite, not a dsi

custom firmware for your DSi that let's you do stuff you normally wouldn't be able to do, like run emulators such as gbarunner2

https://dsi.cfw.guide/

 

[thalassaphobia]

is that something i can do with a ds lite? its kinda seeming like im just gonna have to buy a gba flashcart

 

[Kwyjor]

custom firmware for your DSi that let's you do stuff you normally wouldn't be able to do, like run emulators such as gbarunner2

But you can also run GBARunner2 from an R4 cart on a DS Lite, as suggested in the first post.

Are you suggesting GBARunner2 has different functionality on a DSi? I might have missed that.

DS2 cards were better because they had a processor in the cart (I think?)

Yes, the DSTWO has an extra processor in the cart and can run a completely different GBA emulator. But they're not exactly easy to find anymore.