Is this possible?

Sonic666 · February 15, 2006, 06:27:52 AM

If you have a gba game e.g. Metroid Fusion and you wanted to use the X and Y buttons for missiles and other things would this be possible? You may have to make it go in to DS mode but I would risk battery power for a better gaming thingamabob. I WISH THIS WAS TRUE.

ratx · February 15, 2006, 07:10:14 AM

Its possible sure but it would be a lot of work and for eg each GBA rom would need to altered accordingly. In short its a nice dream but unlikely to ever happen.

Sonic666 · February 15, 2006, 07:28:38 PM

But my dream... :cry: :cry:

m2pt5 · February 15, 2006, 08:21:47 PM

The GBA mode cannot see the X and Y buttons at all, therefore they cannot be used without a hardware hack.

Sonic666 · February 16, 2006, 10:30:12 AM

Quote from: "m2pt5"The GBA mode cannot see the X and Y buttons at all, therefore they cannot be used without a hardware hack.

You may have to make it go in to DS mode Did you read it all?

socket · February 16, 2006, 02:02:45 PM

hmm, interesting... make it go ds mode and the buttons might be accessible? i see what you're saying. anyone out there who has any input?

m2pt5 · February 16, 2006, 03:28:19 PM

Quote from: "Sonic666"
Quote from: "m2pt5"The GBA mode cannot see the X and Y buttons at all, therefore they cannot be used without a hardware hack.

You may have to make it go in to DS mode Did you read it all?

I don't see running GBA games in DS mode as easily done; you'd practically have to write a GBA emulator for DS just to have the use of X and Y buttons in GBA games.

socket · February 16, 2006, 04:01:24 PM

Well all I mean is boot the SC in "DS Mode" with a superpass / flashme and then run a GBA game in the SC's DS Mode. And then maybe since key combos can be added for exiting to the menu and saving, maybe it could be made to "emulate" different buttons. I know nothing about this, just throwing stuff out there.

Sonic666 · February 17, 2006, 07:55:06 PM

Yeah like a macro so you maybe could set something like X to be R and B or something like that. I would hope something like this is real...

bitblt · February 17, 2006, 09:20:31 PM

Quote from: "m2pt5"
Quote from: "Sonic666"
Quote from: "m2pt5"The GBA mode cannot see the X and Y buttons at all, therefore they cannot be used without a hardware hack.

You may have to make it go in to DS mode Did you read it all?
I don't see running GBA games in DS mode as easily done; you'd practically have to write a GBA emulator for DS just to have the use of X and Y buttons in GBA games.

The problem is there is no (known) way to access DS specific hardware (X Y, touch screen, 2nd screen, mic, etc) in GBA mode with GBA code. This means it is not possible to patch a GBA rom to recognize the X Y buttons. A GBA emulator for DS would be the only way to execute a GBA rom and "see" the X Y buttons. Although a GBA emulator for DS would be relatively simple to implement compared to a PC, I don't see the benefits worth the effort, especially considering the DS already emulates GBA with hardware.