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Hardware > Famicom + Gameboy Advanced = Famivance

#34734 - sgeos - Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:21 am

I'm in Tokyo now and recently I saw a nifty piece of hardware at a game store. It is a unit the plays famicom (Japanese NES games) on the GBA. The unit plugs into the back of the GBA. There is a famicom game slot and a GBA game slot. It looks the unit requires batteries. I only saw pictures of it being used with a with an SP, but I imagine it would fit in the original GBA. I'd love to pick one up, but it's ~$70, and that is more than I want to spend right now.

-Brendan

#34738 - radjago - Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:43 am

Something like this?

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=50&products_id=4326&

#34740 - sgeos - Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:47 am

radjago wrote:
Something like this?
...

Quite similar. Here an info page about the product:
http://www.cybergadget.co.jp/product/Pgba_sp/003158.html

Sweet. It looks like it can be connected to the TV. I wonder if it allows GBA games to be played on the TV? Soft reset... I should stop reading or else I'll go out and buy one. =)

-Brendan

#34743 - FluBBa - Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:25 am

Or you can try this which doesn't require a GBA to work.
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#34769 - MiGs - Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:31 pm

Would one of those 60pin to 72pin adapters work on it to play NES games?

#34779 - sgeos - Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:45 am

It looks like the GBA cart is used for header information. I don't think the AV deal can be used to display GBA games on the TV.

MiGs wrote:
Would one of those 60pin to 72pin adapters work on it to play NES games?

Probably, but that would be a bulky setup.

-Brendan