People say that you need more memory to run GBA Roms - so you need a slot-2 card thing. Couldn't people just put in any GBA Game in slot-2, and use the memory from it to run the ROM? Edit: I found out that GBA Games use ROM, not RAM, but does this matter?
Official GBA game carts don't have any memory, apart from for saving. It's not the memory the DS needs anyway. When you play a GBA game on the DS, it forgets it's a DS, and it thinks it's a GBA. So it fogets it has slot-1, meaning the GBA game has to be in slot-2.
Simply put. -gba games apparently load far too fast for ds slot loading Even though the ds has the power to do it-it lacks the speed and loading type. Surprisingly the psp can do it-not sure why but that is a far more powerful system-it might take ALOT of power to load such a thing... Someone should start a project though for it-at least for dsi owners who don't have slot 2 power. (Older ds's have the game in slot one, and with certain slot 2 cards linked with the slot one, transfers the data, launching a game stored in slot one, in slot 2-confusing but that is how it goes.)
Yes. ROM means Read-Only Memory, which means you can't write to it. In other words, the only GBA game you're going to play with any given GBA game pak is the one that was originally on it.
But isn't there interaction of both Slot-1 and Slot-2 on the DS through Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. Wasn't there a way you could upload your GBA pokemon on to your DS? I remember playing and reading something about "PalPark" or something along those lines?...there must be a way...
Well with Read Only Memory it's not a problem to read it, you just can't write to it. Thus why if you have a slot 2 cart with GBA games on it then you can run them just fine, even through the DS start menu.
Yeah...wht a very strange and surprising fact that gba has faster speed and loading than a ds slot 1 card,I mean shouldn't we improve instead of going back...well that's nintendo But I think that someday nintendo will release GBA games in NDS formats or a hacker would.....(hopefully,since the dsi doesn't have a slot 2)
