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Nintendo DS Modded to Play GB and GBC Carts
Steve E. writes "Apparently someone has made the first hardware mod to the Nintendo DS. An entry over at the Nintendo DS Livejournal Community gives detailed instructions on how to modify a DS to play legacy cartridges." From the post: "1. Disassemble your Nintendo DS. This step is fairly self explanatory, if you can't figure out how to take your DS apart, you should stop here."
It's very nice to have one machine that does everything. I would be interested in seeing if Nintendo did anything special for the GB and GBC games playing environments like they did for for the GBA. I wonder if they are going to phase it in as the GBA is slowly phased out. Is the GB and GBC hardware actually used by the DS to support anything else, ala MegaDrive (Genesis for my american friends) and its sounds processor being the old mastersystem processor?
"all through my house i set up traps, it seems like the rats have a map, so now i feed the rats crack" - Donald D
If you have a DS, or want a DS for playing DS/GBA games... But you also have GB/GBC games then why would you want to carry two handhelds around when you could only carry one?
Not to mention the article also includes a tip on increasing the wifi range, which certainly seems useful regardless of if you are interested in GB/GBC games or not.
Sounds to me like another case of CBIMCAE (Complaining because I must complain about everything)
--- "End Of Line" - MCP
Why didn't Nintendo make the DS able to play GB and GBC games to begin with? Especially since there are still many people who play the old games
because they've still got a shitload of SP units sitting on store shelves and people still need a reason to buy the SP (other than the low price point), I assume.
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...
And will ruin your DS, thereby voiding the warranty.
This is a NON-STORY and Zonk, the editor, should have some common sense beaten into him for posting it to the main page.