Well, Goomba is actually running on the GBA, not the full DS hardware. A native DS emulator could be much better. However, I wouldn't say Goomba sucks, it has some graphics problems in a small number of games such as Donkey Kong '93, but it's generally very nice for B&W games. I don't have any trouble with saving and I always personally hated the stretch screen option anyway.

There's two reasons why you're not likely to ever see a Gameboy emulator for the DS that can boot real cartridges (even though slot-1 flash cards would othersie make it possible even if Nintendo's not interested in doing it themselves). First, have you ever tried sticking a Gameboy cart in your DS? They don't fit. The GBA slot on the DS is shaped in such a way that only GBA carts will fit, not B&W Gameboy or GBC carts. Of course, you could mod either the slot or the carts to get around that problem. The bigger problem is that the GBA-slot on the DS only provides 3.3V, while original Gameboy games need 5V. So, yu'd need some kind of external power supply to provide enough power to access the data on a Gameboy cart. I suppose you could hack something like that up, too, but it would be pretty ugly.


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