I want to buy a Gameboy.

[ryohazuki]

You could probably add a 1.5 volt battery to the GB cart to get it to work on a DS but its more hassle than its worth and i don't have a spare to try it on.

I couldn't even insert the GB carts into the DS.
I didn't force them though, they just didn't seem to want to go in.

[darkNiGHTS]

The DS doesn't have the right chip in it to play GBC/GB games, the GBA did.  That's why the Micro could not play GBC games, because they couldn't include the chip if they made it that small.

[wickidweasel]

I couldn't even insert the GB carts into the DS.
I didn't force them though, they just didn't seem to want to go in.

the back corners need trimming have a look at the shape of the carts

The DS doesn't have the right chip in it to play GBC/GB games, the GBA did.  That's why the Micro could not play GBC games, because they couldn't include the chip if they made it that small.

This could be overcome with emulation


Although the whole idea of sticking a GB cart in an NDS seems pointless to me when you can stick 100's of GB GBC roms on a smaller flash device even standard GBA carts are too bulky in a DS lite it reminds me of the days when i used to use a Mastersystem adapter on Gamegear I still have it and a copy of R-type but theres no way i would waste my time using it.

 The most obviouse reason Nintendo have not included GB support is so you buy the games again for a crappy virtual console.

[bernie]

yeah, since they're releasing all those gameboy games on the virtual console.

[darkNiGHTS]

This could be overcome with emulation

There is a GB/GBC emulator for the DS.

[wickidweasel]

  I know i mentioned that way back but im talking about real carts

[darkNiGHTS]

The DS probably doesn't have enough space in the onboard memory for a GB/GBC emulator.

[willplayer]

They really should have taken the time to add a firmware updater to the DS so they could update it like the PSP does theirs. Cuz then they could add stuff like that. And it should have like a 50 mb flash drive in it at least so you could save some of the demo's you get from friendz and whatnot!

[AgentOOSega]

I love the GBA, There so good for them long waits, Like when the wife takes hours in the store and comes out and your like give me a sec to make it to a save! But i really love playing it on my PC, Check out some of the skins i made for the VGBA.

[AgentOOSega]

The DS probably doesn't have enough space in the onboard memory for a GB/GBC emulator.

But you can put NES roms on a GBA cart, Not sure if it works on DS, Take a look at this site its got mad GBA & SP & DS info.

http://www.gameboy-advance.net/

[darkNiGHTS]

But you can put NES roms on a GBA cart, Not sure if it works on DS, Take a look at this site its got mad GBA & SP & DS info.

http://www.gameboy-advance.net/

Yeah, I know, that was in response to someone saying that Nintendo should have built one in.  There is also NES emulator for the DS.

[liugeaux]

But you can put NES roms on a GBA cart, Not sure if it works on DS, Take a look at this site its got mad GBA & SP & DS info.

http://www.gameboy-advance.net/

I know it can be done I don't know how but a buddy of mine did it.