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GameBoy Advance 'Time Machine' NES Adapter Trailed

Posted by simoniker on from the flashroms-not-authentic dept.

Thanks to Lik-Sang for their report on a third-party 'Time Machine' NES adapter for the GameBoy Advance SP, being developed by a Taiwanese manufacturer and trailed at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. According to Lik-Sang, who are also showing a promo picture of the device: "The product is supposed to be market-ready within the next couple of weeks, and the primary use is to play your Famicom/NES cartridges on your GBA through the unit. Famicom cartridges are plugged in at the back of the unit, while the system sits underneath the GBA SP."

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  1. Re:A solution looking for a problem? by AndyBusch · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd hardly say the text becomes unreadable. NES games used a blocky 8x8 font usually, which looks fine on PocketNES. Maybe playing Dragon Warrior'd get a bit annoying, but most games have so little text that it doesn't matter (Dodongo dislikes smoke. You can suffer through that much squashed text). You do lose a bit at the outside, but Castlevania is the only game I've played where you lose text to the side cropping. All told, a small price to pay.

    I'm amazed at how many add-ons there are for the GBA. Is it simply standard enough hardware, or is there something else causing all of this?