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Nintendo DS Modded to Play GB and GBC Carts

Posted by Zonk on from the original-tetris-on-the-DS- dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Why?? by Goosey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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)

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  2. Joke? by eikonoklastes · · Score: 5, Informative
    From livejournal.com
    I don't want to hear any more non-sense about DS being able to be modded to play GB/GBC games. This is nothing by krap. Why? Well, grounding an already grounded wire and grounding the antenna isn't going to get you anywhere my friends. the pictures where taken from http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3530. The voltages do not match between the DS/GBA and the GB/GBC. Remember how the GBA units had a physical switched that was pressed when you inserted a class game? This switch turned off the ARM7 CPU, turned on the Z80 CPU, upped the cart voltage from 3.3v to 5v, and changed the wiring configuration used on the link port. Grounding an already grounded pin on the cart and grounding the DS's antenna, how exactly will that accomplish all of this anyways? ITS NON-SENSE!!!