The ds is already legendary. Plus if you really want too play GB and GBC games buy a game boy color or advance or advance SP. if you care about gb and gbc games, then you probably already own a console that can play them.
The reason its not backwards compatible (and i dont mind actually) is because it lacks the physical hardware of the gameboy color, which the gameboy advnace and advance SP had, it would cost more to implement it and there simply isnt much space in the DS... if you are curious, the GBA and DS CPU's are both located underneath the DS card slot. Nintendo technically could have been able to let the DS emulate those games but then again, the cost would increase and the games would be a bit more unstable
a 3ds can natively run gba games, it has similar architecture to a ds (even having ds mode specifically for backwards compatibility), so it can run gameboy games like how a ds can, but this is only ever used in ambassador games or in homebrew
tho the nintendo ds can easily emulate the gameboy and gameboy collor without any issues, it wouldnt be hard to make a nintendo ds be able to run gameboy games from cardtridge in that way, they should have done it as it cost basically nothing, tho am searching for someone who actually did it
It’s like they figured, remember when we made China’s iQue have downloadable games on their portable N64 console, well when we put the eShop on the DS and Wii, it worked on those consoles as well, to lets make it work even on the Switch, cause now all of our consoles can fit into 1 with thanks to the eShop, I mean, port those roms into the eShop, give the people notices that one day more games will be downloadable and surprise them in the end since this is proving to work for almost everything we’ve ever created.
Actully no, both ARM CPUs are used in DS games, so any DS compatinle hardware teoreticly could run GBA games. GB needs z80 CPU it was used as co processor in GBA but nintendo find way to remove it while keeping compatibility
The reason this doesn’t work is that the gba has a different form of cartridge reader, The GBA had both next to each other allowing it to play older Gameboy games you could theoretically try and swap them but idk if that would even work
not just that, but the DS *only* has the arm7 of the gba. it doesn't even have the hardware to play, or even read Game Boy cartridges. it just doesn't exist there.
No, if they use the same slot but in the GBA the processor itself internally has the GBC processor, which allows backward compatibility With the Game Boy Micro and Nintendo DS, that processor was removed from the console, making it incompatible with GB games.
@@Sakamoto196 not even close. the GBA's arm7 and the sm83 of the GB/GBC are to totally different things, not only in architecture, but also size. there is no possible way that the sm83 core could fit in the arm7, and even if it **could**, the pinouts would have to match up in order for GB games to work properly. the DS's GBA hardware doesn't have the right hardware necessary to actually play GB/GBC games. end of discussion. it's not possible unless you were to manufacture an entirely new board(and bios) to bring the necessary support. the only thing that *is* available from the GB/GBC, is the audio that the sm83 provided, but it's seperate from the sm83 on the DS as far as I'm aware.
@@glacieawn The EvilmonkeyzDesignz channel showed the CPU under the microscope and apart from the ARM core is the GBC CPU on the same silicon but miniaturized
According to Nintendo's website there was no gb and gbc support because they didn't want to change the final design of their handhelds to have game boy color hardware.
Get modded consoles and handhelds, there many muticarts and good emulators out there. You can also modded the mini consoles like the ps classic snes classic genesis classic and others.
The long answer is yes. I have a multiple-in-one gba cartridge wth gbc games on it and they play just fine on my dslite. Color and sound work great, Nintendo just doesn't like us ig
Tge thing that impresses me most aint rven the original pokemon red japanese cartrige, is that bro has A IQUE NDS?????? For those who dont know ique is how nintendo operates in chine, with most of theyre console having a chinese Ique version, for example the ds, 3ds and most fanously, the N64
@@brandonwilliams2799 maybe moving the gba reader a little so gbc and gameboy games can fit inside. or i guess adding a separate game boy color slot but i guess that wouldn't be the easiest way since even the gba and gba sp have gameboy support
Its not fake, its an officially licensed ique clone of the nintendo ds. Ique exists because of japanese sanctions on mainland china, they started with cloning the n64, and now translates and publishes nintendo switch games (according to credits of super mario maker 2 and super mario bros wonder)
