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GBA Emulator Released For the DSi

Posted by Soulskill on from the what's-old-is-new dept.

Busshy writes "Darkchen has released a Gameboy Advance emulator for the Nintendo DS/DSi that plays full speed with frameskip. This can only be played with the homebrew dev cart, the DS iPlayer. The emulator adds save states, cheats and tools to GBA games, and for DSi Fans the ability to finally get over the loss of the GBA Slot on the DSi."

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  1. nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it has to skip frames to play at "full speed" then that means it's not really playing at full speed.

    1. Re:nitpick by Spatial · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It takes a surprising amount of computational power to emulate the GBA (and the SNES for that matter). Even the PSP emulators for them don't run at full speed 100% of the time.

  2. Not for the DSi by rvalles · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Wrong heading. Should say "For the iPlayer" and not "for DSi".

    About DSi, once DSi mode is properly cracked, it should give access to 133MHz ARM9 (up from 66MHz) and 16MB of RAM (up from 4MB), which might make this iPlayer device not needed.

  3. I'd rather have a GBC emulator for the DS by NotSoHeavyD3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mostly because I still have some old GB/GBC games that do not play in the DS at all.(I'm a little surprised NoA didn't put out a DS card that would let me play those titles.)

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    1. Re:I'd rather have a GBC emulator for the DS by tepples · · Score: 2, Insightful

      (I'm a little surprised NoA didn't put out a DS card that would let me play those titles.)

      Nintendo probably plans to sell emulators or enhanced remakes of GBC games on DSi Shop, just as it has done with NES games on Wii Shop.

  4. Re:Homebrew without piracy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *psst* He needs to work in an angle so he can link to his tetris clone