October 2005
Beginner
501 pages
15h 5m
English
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Play Classic Systems on the GBA
Embark on retro adventures using your Game Boy Advance.
Considering that it shipped in early 2001 for under a hundred bucks, the Game Boy Advance is a pretty powerful piece of hardware. It’s so powerful in fact, that you can actually use it to emulate other classic gaming consoles. And indeed, many such emulators are available online.
“But wait,” you interrupt. “Why would I want to run an emulator within an emulator?” You’re right: the only reason you’d want to emulate a system within another emulator is for the pure hacker spirit of seeing if it can be done. And I’m sure there are quite a few people reading this right now to whom that sounds perfectly reasonable. But there is a goal here for even the casual hacker—by using rewriteable flash cartridges [Hack #46] , you can run the emulators and ROMs on your actual Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, or even a Nintendo GameCube equipped with a Game Boy Player attachment.
By far one of the most appealing uses of GBA emulation is to run games on the go that used to be tethered to a home system. And though you might instantly think of the Nintendo Entertainment System, there are also a wealth of other emulators for the GBA that are currently being developed. Most of these can be found at Zophar’s Domain, on the page http://www.zophar.net/consoles/gameboy.html.
PocketNES
By far the most popular GBA emulator is PocketNES, which allows you to run classic NES games on the portable. As is the case with the rest of ...
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