GBA console

[Annoying Snails Master]

[James S]

Gameboy games run full speed, Gameboy Advanced runs at a tenth a frame a second.

[sponge]

Actually, I ALMOST played Mario Advance a few days ago! I gave up after the menu though, as I couldn't get into the game in a sane amount of time.

[eminefes]

[goatCE]

[damian]

[Annoying Snails Master]

Randall once told me that it would be simple port to a GBA because the processers are the same.

[James S]

The processor's instruction set is the same. That means to emulate a GBA you won't have to code in an abstraction layer to intrepret the language the game uses to the language the CPU uses. But that doesn't mean that one won't have to emulate the sound chips, the video chips, control chips, memory chips, and every other little piece of silicon inside the GBA.

[Village_Ideot]

whoever wanted the backlit gba, just wait for the new one (with the clamshell design) coming out in march, it has a light and it is cheaper than a gba with afterburner.

[sponge]

VI: Agreed. Unless you already have a GBA, or don't like the new one, you should get an Afterburner.

If I'm not mistaken, the GBA ARM chip uses the THUMB instruction set, something that the PPC does not. Or the other way around. In any case, there's a rather large difference in the processors. Then as Moose said, there's the sound, etc.

By the way, it's easy to port an emulator, but you'd be emulating the ARM chip on an ARM chip. An interpeter would be quite a bit easier than normal/

[Digital Chaos]

Screw gba. GO GAMEGEAR AND NOMAD!!!

[eminefes]

[eminefes]

[Annoying Snails Master]

yeah, gamegears would have kicked gameboys azz into the ground if it waznt for da battery life

[goatCE]