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Nintendo DS's Compatibility With GBA FlashCards

Posted by Zonk on from the more-ds-touching dept.

zetasmack writes "I know that since the arrival of the Nintendo DS I (and i'm sure many other /.ers) have been anxiously awaiting some news on dev kits. Well, unfortunately no flash kits are available (to my knowledge) for the DS yet, but the folks at gameboy-advance.net have tested the DS's compatibility with all of the available GBA flash cards. From the article: "At this point there is NO NDS Flash Card or Linker made specificly for backup of Nintendo DS Roms so we have tested the compatibilty of Gameboy Advance Backup devices with the NDS. At this point we looked at the most simple and at the same time the most important things. Can you play Games from "GBA Flash Card name...", and Does the Card & Linker backup set works with Nintendo DS""

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  1. Summary: Most Work OK. by pkhuong · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looking at the list quickly, we see that ~1/3 work flawlessly, while nearly as many need physical modifications.

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  2. not very reliable by colle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    gameboy-advance.net is not the most reliable source of information about any Nintendo handheld console imo. They are the ones that by comparing cpu-frequencies declared it possible to emulate all snes-games on the GBA. Check out http://gbatemp.m4d.sm they have a quite good forum with lots of info about flashcarts and the DS.

  3. GB Bridge by Dwedit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Am I the only one who thinks it's idiotic to test the GB Bridge? The GB Bridge is not a flash cart, it converts a GBA cartridge into a GB/GBC cartridge. The Nintendo-DS's cartridge port is not shaped to accept GB/GBC games, which Nintendo themselves claim are not compatible.

  4. my roms work fine! by garfunkalow · · Score: 1, Interesting

    for my undergrad degree i wrote a simple demo using affine transformations on a sprite. I am pleased to see it working just fine on the DS from an EZFA cart.

    It is always nice to have it loaded up and having some one ask how i got my face on the screen :)

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