#147235 - malexous - Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:56 pm
I have an R4DS and I want to be able to play GBA games on the DS. Is that possible on the R4 through an emulator. I would also like NES, SNES, GB, GBC emulators.
#147237 - spinal_cord - Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:07 pm
I bet most people on most nds forums are tired of this, but...
You can not play GBA games (neither commercial nor homebrew) from a slot-1 card. It is impossible to use the slot from gba hardware and nobody will ever create an emulator to do something that the hardware does already. You will have yo buy a slot-2 card for GBA stuff.
As for the others, you can try nester, dsnes, snesds, nesds, retrobox, there are others that i cant remember, try the search feature of this site.
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#147239 - mute - Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:41 am
yeah, spend $20 on an EZ-FLASH 3-in-1 for GBA. well worth it.
#147321 - CubeGuy - Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:21 pm
I was looking at that. Does it function as an Opera expansion without an AR code?
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#147332 - Tikker - Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:14 pm
you need an IPS patch on the opera rom to allow it to use the ez flash's ram
#147338 - dantheman - Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:12 am
For emulators, look into: NES DS, SNEmulDS, and Lameboy.
As for the RAM, I wonder if Chishm's Opera RAM program could easily be expanded to work with the 3in1's RAM. Perhaps Lick's RAM API could be added in?
#147339 - tepples - Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:12 am
But how does one apply an IPS patch to a Game Card? Can Nitro Hax apply an IPS stored on an FCSR on the EZFlash 3-in-1's NOR chip?
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#147344 - spinal_cord - Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:52 am
I wonder why someone who had bought the opera browser would need something other than the ram pak that comes with it to act as the ram pak that comes with it?
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#147349 - simonjhall - Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:42 am
Hang on...maybe he didn't buy it...then he wouldn't have the ram pack!
Seems unlikely, though.
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#147350 - sonny_jim - Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:48 am
I've heard that you can buy the expansion pak seperately though, which I thought as very strange. Also I've been wondering how many of these paks (like the M3 DS Real GBA expansion) can mimic the Opera Pak as it would make writing the drivers for DSLinux gbaram slightly easier.
#147352 - dantheman - Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:05 am
| spinal_cord wrote: |
| I wonder why someone who had bought the opera browser would need something other than the ram pak that comes with it to act as the ram pak that comes with it? |
As I stated in the thread I linked to, I personally find it incredibly convenient not to have to pak-swap when I wish to run the web browser. I keep the Opera DS cartridge in slot-1 and then merely use my Supercard as RAM when needed. It's quicker and easier than swapping to the official RAM pack all the time. Plus I can quickly reboot and open DSLinux if I find something I want to save to my card using Retawq or Links.
#147358 - tepples - Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:44 am
| spinal_cord wrote: |
| I wonder why someone who had bought the opera browser would need something other than the ram pak that comes with it |
Because it's something else to carry. But isn't that the pirates' excuse too?
| sonny_jim wrote: |
| I've heard that you can buy the expansion pak seperately though, which I thought as very strange. |
I would imagine that Nintendo was planning to introduce more Game Cards that could make use of the Expansion Pak, just as Donkey Kong 64 was by far not the only Nintendo 64 game that used the Expansion Pak.
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#147371 - chishm - Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:49 am
| tepples wrote: |
| I would imagine that Nintendo was planning to introduce more Game Cards that could make use of the Expansion Pak, just as Donkey Kong 64 was by far not the only Nintendo 64 game that used the Expansion Pak. |
Unlike the N64 expansion pak, the NDS expansion pak is a lot slower than main memory, making it less useful. With the current large game card capacity, data doesn't need to be heavily compressed, so caching of decompressed data isn't an issue. The game cards also have a fairly high read rate, so resources can be streamed in as needed (made easier with the use of DMA). I'd say that the only reason the pak is used by Opera DS is to store downloaded data somewhere, just as DSOrganize caches it to disc. Storing large amounts of not-often-used, dynamically-generated data is the best way to make use of the ram pak.
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#147372 - simonjhall - Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:56 am
| dantheman wrote: |
| spinal_cord wrote: | | I wonder why someone who had bought the opera browser would need something other than the ram pak that comes with it to act as the ram pak that comes with it? |
As I stated in the thread I linked to, I personally find it incredibly convenient not to have to pak-swap when I wish to run the web browser. |
Yeah, I know man :-) I gotta agree with you here!
I just love it when you see people on other forums who talk about similar things then they didn't realise that the Opera game card was supposed to come with something else too! "Wasn't in the box, sorry! Musta fallen out..."
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