GBA-SMC Adapter

[rcx21000]

What about a thingy that could hold a GBA game and on the other side connect to the GP32 by SMC port. It would have an emulator in the SMC card so you can connect GBA games to a GP32. I know that not everyone could do it, but if a company wanted to do it, they probably could.

 

[rcx21000]

Anyone want to reply?? :huh: :blink:

 

[deanollive]

are the gba games not to big for the smcs?

 

[timthepig]

I guess they are anything from 1mb to around 20mb at estimation unzipped(maybe bigger)

So...Yes they can fit on -

 

[deanollive]

Cool, but can't the gp32 just emulate all current GBs?

 

[rcx21000]

I mean emulate GBA, and also a thingy so you can stick a GBA game into a smc slot like this:


_______ __________
| | |-----------
| GBA | |Adapter | SMC SLOT
| GAME | | | --------------
| | | |
|----------| |------

The pic is a bit unclear, but it is a GBA game that sticks into a adapter, and the adapter sticks in the card slot, when you boot the GP32, you see only one file, the GBA emu, then once you open the emu, it launches the GBA game automaticialy. If GamePark dosen't like emus, they can add security, by putting a unique number on the card that normal SMC cards can't have, so noone could pretend that they are using it on the same card, and copy the emu.

 

[kram]

Not gonna happen. Period.

 

[Meonlyeviler]

Well, a gb\gba to gp32 link cable would be even cooler, so you can play tetris on your gp32 with a gb emulator, then put the link cable in and play with some one using a gbc.

gp32-----{Link cable}----gb\gba

 

[Esn]

What we MIGHT get is a GBA emulator... it seems to be progressing fairly nicely so far.

As for the converter-idea... it's plausible, but I doubt that any 3rd party would try to make one for 2 reasons:

1. The GP32's not popular enough

2. People would just download the GBA emulator and ROMS. Of course that's not legal, but how many people thought about legality when they pirated Dreamcast games?