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Using Hard Drives Or CD-ROMs On The GBA?

Posted by simoniker on from the 128,000-marios dept.

Black_Logic writes "A couple of Swedish university students have made a Gameboy Advance interface for hard discs and CD-ROMs. This will extend the GBA's maximum cartridge memory beyond 32MB, which could be quite useful for those who'd like to use the GBA for large space-requiring graphical projects, or maybe even movies."

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  1. Also by neostorm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are a number of other system emulators (NES, Master System, TG16) that run on the GBA through use of the flash ROM cartridges.
    I could see those being adapted to this and used to carrying around a small laptop hardrive full of old NES roms strapped to the back of your GBA. Much fun.

  2. Movies? TV tuner and VCD Player by Echnin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can already play movies on the GBA, with a GBA TV Tuner and a VCD player. Just connect the VCD player to the TV Tuner, and there you have your VCDs playing... Not very good quality, but it works.

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