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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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  3. Re:uhh ok.. by GoRK · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except that the ARM chip in the GBA is the ARM7, and it has no MMU. Plus, it runs at about 16MHz. It could play video but would probably choke trying to do anything with Divx.