Super Gameboy Advance?

mykindofjesus · Post by **mykindofjesus** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:53 am

Anyone ever think of trying to hybrid a Super Gameboy with a GBA?

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:48 am

no.. but ive been thinking of making an n64-ds snap on cart...

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:56 am

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:07 am

One so you dont have to buy repackaged games for the DS and two its cool to your own stuff.

nitsuj98 · Post by **nitsuj98** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:40 pm

I was thinking of doing the exact thing. would it be possible and/or has anyone already made a super gameboy advance?

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:43 pm

First of all, the N64 is 64-bit, DS is 32-bit. Second of all, we all already had this debate a year ago about whether the DS would be powerful enough to do this.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:12 am

Its not just a matter of rerouting pins. You would have to recompile all the code / instructions live. No way this is ever going to happen.

The ds & N64 have different chipsets, not to mention the 32 vs 64 bit issue.

Post by **Skyone** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:20 am

nitsuj98 wrote:I was thinking of doing the exact thing. would it be possible and/or has anyone already made a super gameboy advance?

Thanks for the 2 year bump, yo.

Anyways, I wasn't around for this topic and would like to say it would be useless to try to bend the circuitry of the already-existing Super Game Boy, because you wouldn't be able to modify the circuit enough to make it play Advanced games. Just hook your GBA up to your TV and build an external SNES controller.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:46 am

this thread reminds me when cennar made a snesp so he could use his super gameboy to play portable pokemon.

nitsuj98 · Post by **nitsuj98** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:26 am

Skyone wrote: Thanks for the 2 year bump, yo.

Anyways, I wasn't around for this topic and would like to say it would be useless to try to bend the circuitry of the already-existing Super Game Boy, because you wouldn't be able to modify the circuit enough to make it play Advanced games. Just hook your GBA up to your TV and build an external SNES controller.

darn, so its impossible? or is it just hard?

Post by **bicostp** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:53 am

No, you can't do it easily. You would have to build the converter from scratch.

If you want a Super Game Boy Advance buy a Gamecube and a Game Boy Player, or track down a GBA Transverter and rig it into an old style GBA. (Sort of like the Game Boy Somewhat-Less Portable.)

If you're interested in emulators on a TV, buy a PC to TV converter box and run emulators on a real computer. (It will do a lot more than the GBA.)

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:51 pm

atari2600a wrote:First of all, the N64 is 64-bit, DS is 32-bit. Second of all, we all already had this debate a year ago about whether the DS would be powerful enough to do this.

First the N64 was not a real 64bit system, proof

Secondly about hte only thing that can be comparable of those two CPUs is that they both are RISC. I'll say this though the ARM9 that is in the DS is far more powerful. First it has more ram (both system and L2) and secondly the graphics capability of the DS is better, hands down.

Lastly it was agreed that the DS couldn't emulate the N64 games.

As for what Bicostp said. The transverter, good luck, I can't find anyone that still sales them. It's be best to just invest the extra money and time to make a Gamecube with a Gameboy adapter. That way you get more bang for you buck.

nitsuj98 · Post by **nitsuj98** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:33 pm

hmm, well I have a gamecube and a gameboy player, I just thought it would be better to top load the games into my (much easier to carry) snes. So, what if I just took apart a GBA and a super gameboy case?
idk...it would just seem more like the good old days, playing new games on my super nintendo once again

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:42 pm

...Gamecube. Handle. Way more easier to cary.

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:58 pm

Also you need to actually make the screen load the actual picture. This would be hard. Even harder then your euhm thing when you see Korean chicks.

(just kidding)