Gameboy/Gameboy color games on ds?

haferhole1 · January 03, 2007, 07:40:26 PM

is there any way to play gb/gbc games on my nintendo ds? i noticed the games wouldnt fit into the slot at the bottom, then i noticed y, a slight difference in gameboy advance and gameboy games

(top- gba game, bottom- gb game)

theres a cut in the gba games, which the ds uses to keep gb games from comming in there. so, being the smart guy i am, i cut the sides off of my pokemon red, cause i wanted to play some old school pokemon.

it worked, to the extent that it fit into the ds now, but the ds said there wasnt a game in it =/

so what i need help with, is it possible to play gb games on a ds? if so, how? i have it cut down already to fit in there

thanks

The_Crusade · January 03, 2007, 07:47:37 PM

Seriously, how can you think that might possibly work? You've destroyed over half of the technical stuff inside the GB game by cutting it.

haferhole1 · January 03, 2007, 07:48:39 PM

no i havnt, i cut the hard plastic, and thats it, i never hit the chip

flamingdragon · January 03, 2007, 10:59:54 PM

It is not possible to play gb/gbc games on a ds.

The_Crusade · January 03, 2007, 11:01:26 PM

Obviously, but hafer doesn't seem to understand that

haferhole1 · January 03, 2007, 11:09:25 PM

y not?? they play in the gameboy advance, play in the sp, y not in the gba slot in ds?

Dodger · January 03, 2007, 11:22:06 PM

They play in the GBA, the SP is the same software as a GBA. The GBA was made Backwards compatible, the DS wasn't.
At least, not for more than one generation of handhelds. Just use a GBA, or emulate it on your computer.

haferhole1 · January 03, 2007, 11:28:31 PM

y wouldnt they make the ds have backwords compatibility? thats retarded

Dodger · January 04, 2007, 12:10:18 AM

It's only backward compatible for ONE GENERATION of games. So only for the GBA games. Things are normally like that.

haferhole1 · January 04, 2007, 01:15:04 AM

fine, but why!? they already have the technology for that in the game boy micro, cant they fit it into the ds too, to make customers happier?

flamingdragon · January 04, 2007, 01:32:53 AM

Why would they?

That's like the same as having the wii able to play nes games.

Of course u can download and play nes games on the wii, but seriously, who has old nes games still and wants to play them?

haferhole1 · January 04, 2007, 01:42:20 AM

well, i would, i even have a bunch of nes, but thats different, u would have to jam the wii with ports for all the different systems, with this, the 2 can both fit into the gameboy advance slot, so y shouldnt they make them compatible?

flamingdragon · January 04, 2007, 03:05:36 AM

Because they can do what they want.

haferhole1 · January 04, 2007, 04:42:02 AM

haha, see? im right. pwned

flamingdragon · January 04, 2007, 06:40:25 AM

Ok, u have pwned me so bad that I will now go cry somewhere.