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    Maybe some of you that are in the know more than I can offer some information.

    I was thinking the other day of why the DS can't play the older Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. The carts should fit since the GBA and the GB carts share a port on the GBA. I know that Nintendo didn't include the Z80 processer needed for them in the DS, but it was included on the GBA.

    So what I was thinking is why doesn't someone release a DS cart that has a Gameboy emulator. Have the DS power up to the GB Emulator and then have it tap the cart slot for running the game. Sure, you'd lose the connection capability (unless someone got really, really clever and emulated the cable connection thru the wireless port), but wouldn't it be great to have total access to the entire Gameboy library on a single machine.

    The DS should have enough processing power to pull this off.

    Any thoughts ?

    FRED
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    Yeah. I really wanted to play Zelda: Link's Awakening on my DS, but can't. They could do something similar to Wii Virtual Console...

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    Get a supercard: http://supercardstore.com/
    has emulation for Gameboy, sega master system, tubrographx16

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickmasterX View Post
    Get a supercard: http://supercardstore.com/
    has emulation for Gameboy, sega master system, tubrographx16
    What I'm thinking of is something that would allow one to play Gameboy carts plugged into the DS's slot, not something that allows the playing of roms downloaded to a memory card.

    But this does show that GB emulation is possible...

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    People have been doing this for a long time

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    Quote Originally Posted by fcw3 View Post
    What I'm thinking of is something that would allow one to play Gameboy carts plugged into the DS's slot, not something that allows the playing of roms downloaded to a memory card.

    But this does show that GB emulation is possible...
    I understand your dilemma, I wish I could play my GB games on my DS also.

    But, you did put "emulation" in the title, maybe you should change it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mills View Post
    But, you did put "emulation" in the title, maybe you should change it.
    I can see what you mean. What would one call it other than "emulation" ? It is the emulating of the Gameboy processor on the DS that I'm interested in seeing happen.

    I guess most people, myself included most of the time, link emulation with downloaded roms. Not many systems have the capability to connect the real cartridges to the system looking to run emulation. (i.e. a PSP runs its emulator from memory sticks)

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    Quote Originally Posted by fcw3 View Post
    Maybe some of you that are in the know more than I can offer some information.

    I was thinking the other day of why the DS can't play the older Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. The carts should fit since the GBA and the GB carts share a port on the GBA. I know that Nintendo didn't include the Z80 processer needed for them in the DS, but it was included on the GBA.

    So what I was thinking is why doesn't someone release a DS cart that has a Gameboy emulator. Have the DS power up to the GB Emulator and then have it tap the cart slot for running the game. Sure, you'd lose the connection capability (unless someone got really, really clever and emulated the cable connection thru the wireless port), but wouldn't it be great to have total access to the entire Gameboy library on a single machine.

    The DS should have enough processing power to pull this off.

    Any thoughts ?

    FRED

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