I planned to get a dsi and emulate gba games, but it seems that the emulation is not too great. I see it’s even worse on the ds lite.

If I use a gba flash cart in the ds lite, should I have full compatibility?

Additionally, how does screen quality between the 2 compare? I don’t care much about the size, but overall picture quality.

Thanks in advance!

  • @neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    2•2 days ago

    Thanks for letting me know. I wasn’t aware that was an option. I completely skipped the ds generation as a kid. So, I’m going to try to catch up. Normally I’d emulate, but the dual screens is annoying to emulate.

    • Nazo
      2•1 day ago

      @neon_nova I can understand that. The main thing I wanted to emphasize was mostly just that when a 3DS runs a NDS or GBA game and when a NDS or DSi runs a GBA game it is running in 100% hardware. There might be compatibility issues due to the loading process itself (especially 100% software loading like GBA mode on the DSi or 3DS) but the system actually reboots into that mode running directly on the actual chipset itself. That means other than any issue the loader might introduce, things run 100% speed with 100% exactness because it literally is the same hardware.

      BTW as far as emulating NDS and/or 3DS goes if you ever have to, some emulators like RetroArch’s will let you set one screen to be big and the other small. This helps a lot sometimes. Most games only really use one screen