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[Gleasonator]

If I were to take a GBA SP board, and solder the wires (or ribbon cables, not sure which) onto the back of a DS Lite screen, would it work? And would I be able to keep both systems working on the same screen, as long as one of the board's power is off?

I have an idea that requires this.

[Romiress]

This is so bizzare. But I remain interested.

I have no answers to your questions, but do keep us updated on this odd.. project thing.

[rocky]

so you mean connect the sp motherboard up to the ds lites screen?  how would you fit the mother board into the ds lite? or are you going to just run wires to it?

[Gleasonator]

This is so bizzare. But I remain interested.

I have no answers to your questions, but do keep us updated on this odd.. project thing.

Well, anyone know where I can get a tri-wing screwdriver then? (That'll open a DS)

so you mean connect the sp motherboard up to the ds lites screen?  how would you fit the mother board into the ds lite? or are you going to just run wires to it?

I was thinking today... GBA is backwards compatible, and it has a linking jack, as DS does not. The reason DS isn't backwards compatable is because it's designed to make a union with DS cart when needed. If you were to take the smallest of each.... (GBA SP and NDSL) and combine them in a big case, (NDS Original) you could have all of it. There'd be two power supplys, so if one dies you have the other, not to mention you get the extra jack, (though there's gotta be some hole-drilling and hole filling... the select and start buttons moved, so did the mic, and I don't expect everything to line up right away) and you have TWO GBA ports, one backwards compatible, one used for NDS union.

Cool huh? I have the right tools and skill to do it, but it's the screen that are the problem. I'd have to attach both motherboards to one screen, which might not work. Then there's the buttons. I'd have to change the whole interface of that to make it work... don't get me wrong, it can be done, but it'll take a while.

[sneef]

you keep referring to the DS as "not backwards compatible"

are you talking about being compatible all the way back to Gameboy/Gameboy Color?

[Gleasonator]

^
Yeah.

[Gleasonator]

Just checked Ebay, there's a couple of good cases. If the screen thing doesn't work, I can always just mount it on the bottom of the DS and not have to worry about the buttons.

EDIT: It is ribbon cable.

[SuperCardStore]

How about you run VNC on the DS Lite and use it to control a Gameboy emulator on a PC?  You can get VNC access to your PC anywhere there is Wifi, so you wouldn't have to carry twice the weight.

[mescalin]

Or just run a gameboy emulator, with an Rom of said game, something Supercards do natively.  I use it for tetris.  If you have a flashcart of course.  Anyroad, emulation will be a damn sight easier and more elegant than what you're planning to do, if less interesting for internet folks like us.

[Altor]

Hmm...  I'm not that much of an electronics whiz, but I don't think this would work.  DS screens have more pixels.... I'm not sure how the screen would react.  Best case scenario, it doesn't work at all, worst case, the screen or some pixels are destroyed from the unexpected... whatever.  The reason GBA mode works is because there's a chip or whatever that tells the screen to only display in the middle.

[Hi]

I'm also no electronic wiz altor but I don't see why he couldn't put the wires threw that special chip you speak of.

Goomba color works bad so I can see why he wouldn't want to emulate games. I wish I didn't have to.

Gleasonator, rather then connecting the motherboard of an sp to play gbc and gb games, Consider ripping the emulator that's on the gbasp and using that. I have no dobt that the gbasp's firmware included a gbc and gb emulator. I also have no dobt the nds' firmware includes a gba emulator. I could be wrong of course.

But, if I'm right you could rip the emulator from the gbasp and add it into some special version of flashme or something. Then the rest of us could use it as well :lol: (If you shared it.)

Of course, connecting the motherboard is way cooler, even if not the most practicle thing.

[Gleasonator]

SuperCardStore and mescalin, you guys are no fun! Anyways. Doing that still wouldn't help the link-cable problem.