Since DSi removes the SLOT-2 ,which means the GBA card or some cards similar to GBA card ,player can not play GBA games via GBA card or device similar to GBA card .However, there was a news from Nintendo official site that Nintendo Team will develop some DSi application software to run the GBA games on DSi,which will be in official DSi online store, till now we didn’t see any further news after that .
If DSi or DSi xl owner want to play GBA games, in September 2009 there is a team developed a product named, DS iPlayer, which is built-in with a strong CPU (the CPU is running over capacity DSI hardware) multimedia card, allows DSi run RMVB, FLV, RM, and other mainstream video format and playback of multiple audio formats. After the DS iplayer product released about one month, there is one guy ,named Darkchen,who developed a GBA emulator for Iplayer ,which has a good compatibility between GBA games and DSi console .So, this feels like the first time we knew that GBA game can be played on DSi . This emulator has a very nice function ,see more as below,
Video & Audio Graphic size: Original size
Game fast forward: default is off. The frame skip level will be set into 9 when you turn on it, then you can play games with the fastest speed
Frame skip type: default is auto, you can set it into Manual, then you can set the frame skip level
Frame skip level: the higher level the faster game speed
Sound switch: switch on/off the sound
- Save State
Write game state: limited 32 slots
Read game state: read saves with the screenshot and date
- Cheats
Supports Pro Action Replay/Gameshark codes.
Put the cheat files into /Gamecht/
- Tools
Screen snapshot:
Save the pics as .png format into /Gamepic/
Supports auto display pics
- Others
Supports Auto standby
Supports CHT/ENG
Note:
Suggest to format microsd card into FAT format, it’s faster :p
How to use:
1st, Make sure the fireware and OS of your iPlayer is the lastest version
2nd, There are CHT/ENG 2 emulators in the zip file. Install the one which fit your iPlayer
3rd, Copy the whole NDS-GBA folder and files into /_system/
Download: http://www.dsiplayer.us/download.html
Drakchen Blog: http://darkchen.blog.com/
Lately, SC team developed a new product named Supercard DSTWO h is compatible with DS iPlayer function. User can also play GBA games ,watch movies ,listening music .
How to play more DS games via DSTWO is a very hot question,or we can say that it is a common question to a flashcard.And it is amazing for some people who has developed this software and shared with DSTWO user.As of today, it has two versions,check the updates as below,
DSTWO GBA emulator plug-in v1.21,feature as below,
* Added support popular *.cht file cheat code.
* Optimized Frame skip
* Pokemon supports real-time clock
* Fixed crash problem for some DSTWO.
* Exit the menu key change from Y to B.
* Fine tuning the UI.
Installation: Download the package, copy all folder to the root directory of MicroSD card and replace old.
Basis information
System Edition:V1.21
System Capacity:2.82MB
Language:Chinese/English
First generation GBA plugin
DSTWO GBA V1.13(2010-05-18) Download
Installation:
1. Download and Unzip the software package.
2. Copy into MicroSD root directory.