Haydn Jones Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I hered befor that the gamboy can play z80 files, but i put that down to the z80 processor and they were gamboy format z80, but i saw recently that the gameboy flash carts can play zx spectrum roms. Is this true or were they mistaken. Haydn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Graphics chip is probably different. Slot is definitely different. Also, the Gameboy CPU isn't exactly a Z-80, it's just mostly a Z-80. It's missing some stuff, and maybe has one or two things added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 The GBA has a lot of emulators available for it. I haven't tried ZXAdvance but it's supposedly plays the games well through a flash cart. http://207.44.176.77/~admin28/gbaemu/artic...e-zxadvance.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haydn Jones Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 http://www.gbax.com/new/devk.html This is where i saw the spectrum claim. Haydn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Yes you can run a Speccy emu on a GBA Flashcart, here's another link: http://www.gameboy-advance.net/emulated/z8...roms_on_gba.htm I haven't set this one up yet put I've run NES, TG16, and SMS roms to name a few through emus on my GBA flash cart. It's probably the best reason to get the flash cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haydn Jones Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 are there any gba format gameboy emulators starting yet? so i could play gameboy games on a ds if i wanted to? Haydn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 are there any gba format gameboy emulators starting yet? so i could play gameboy games on a ds if i wanted to? I remember seeing a hack that would let you play classic Gameboy games on a DS... I think the problem was that it doesn't provide the correct voltage on one of the pins on the cartridge port, which in turn causes classic games not to work. The guy basically just hacked in a single wire and got it to work fine. I'm not sure what other effects this might have in the long run though. And has anyone tried getting CP/M running on a Gameboy? Anyone here even remember what CP/M is? Makes me feel old just talking about it. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hackmann Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 The hack was unfortunately a hoax. The DS has no Z80 chip, so there's no way for a DS to emulate a first-generation Game Boy in hardware. Fortunately, the DS's 66 MHz ARM9 CPU should have more than enough horsepower to do it in software. Provided, of course, that there's a way to boot homebrews in DS mode . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebug Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 http://www.webpersona.com/goomba/ Goomba is a gameboy mono emulator that compiles GB roms into one GBA rom with a menu you can then flash to your cart. It works with pretty much every GB mono game and a handful of GBC games. I'm sure it will work fine on a DS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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