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GBA compatibility on the SC Lite

Started by JamaY, October 22, 2006, 10:58:51 PM

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JamaY

Hey guys,
I recently bought a DS lite and have been browsing the web for a couple of days looking for information about the different adapters to play homebrew apps and ROMs. The SC lite looked like the most promising one since it's about 25$ cheaper than the M3 lite. So here are my questions:
-I've heard the NDS support on the SC is great, but is the GBA support as good?
-Will I experience lag or some sort of problems playing GBA games?
-Am I better off paying 25$ more to get an M3 instead?
-A bit off-topic, but what is the best brand of microSD memory I can get, and how many NDS or GBA games will I be able to fit in on a 1gb card?

Thanks in advance :)

JamaY


Devil_Spawn

the supercard is about 90% perfect with games, as long as you use the qpc method to save, and pfpatch the roms.

the other 10% (almost always the best games) often have bad slowdown

maxj

i recommend reading fifth's guide http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=27045
that should give you all the info u need to make a decision.
if you're going to play lots of gba then i suppose m3 is for you, but supercard still runs gba okay.
u can fit plenty of games on 1gig, 16+ ds games can fit on it, probably double that if you are playing gba games.
upercard MiniSD Rumble
Superkey
Transcend 1Gig 80X

JamaY

You see, that's my dilemma. I want to be able to play most GBA games without any slowdowns....but I've heard so many good things about the NDS playback on the SC lite. Also, I haven't played any DS games yet, since there aren't any decent emulators for the DS yet...so I may fall in love with the DS games and never go back to the GBA :D

phoood

That was my issue too.

GBA support at the moment is ok for me.  Not many gba games I'd really like to play, versus ds games =D

liquidnitrogen

just get the m3 lite if you really... wanna play gba...

but then again, you could get the m3 mini so that you can actually stick it into a GBA SP and link up...

yeah... supercard lite rockz

lenselijer

just try mario kart for the gba, its only 4mb big and it stutters like hell for me.

i play gba games using m3 minisd on my gb micro, and i play ds games using the sc lite rumble now :D it loads even faster then the regular sc lite.