Topic: Nintendo DS and the GBA cartridge slot

[3rdrocket]

http://ds.ign.com/articles/558/558477p1.html


Heres some good info on the use of the gba slot.

Thanks to Mr. Glub glub from the PA forums for the notice

[norebonomis]

does anyone know the limit's of fitting memory into a GBA card? my idea is to make a GBA card big enough to hold alot of mp3s and have a mp3 player on it. so you can have more functionality off your DS. philadelphia has just made plans to provide free highspeed wireless internet to its citizens by the end of 2006, if the DS can really utilize VoIP. it my be an awsome step to have maybe Skype or Vonage on a GBA cart and also wireless headset/microphone except with stereo speakers to compliment the mp3 funtionality. (who realy wants to hold the ds next the the side of there face to make phone calls? Side Talking was bad enough.)

[KDR_11k]

As long as price isn't an issue you could fit a CF reader and an 8GB CF card in there.

[Switchblade Cross]

I had an idea!!

Seeing as how the DS can access both software simulatniously, wouldent it be possible to release something along the lines of a Sonic & Knuckels?

Imagine buying Zelda Four Swords DS.  You play thought it and have a blast with friends and pretty much get your use out of it.  But then, when your finished, you can throw in you GBA LoZ: Minish Cap game and the DS card would eiter add new levels and items to the old GBA game, or perhaps even use the Minish Cap dungeons as a template to create new Four Sword multiplayer dungeons.

You perhaps you could go the other way around.  Lets say that Jam With the Band NDS game becomes a big hit and nintendo wants to release expansions.  Well instead of recreating a new game on a NDS cart, they could just throw new songs on a GBA cart that you use along side your NDS game.

You could also, theoretically, input an NDS card with the right softward to add touch responce to existing GBA games.  Although I don't know the necessity for that seeing as how the GBA games were created with controll pads in mind...

Just some random thinking....  

[kennyb27]

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You perhaps you could go the other way around. Lets say that Jam With the Band NDS game becomes a big hit and nintendo wants to release expansions. Well instead of recreating a new game on a NDS cart, they could just throw new songs on a GBA cart that you use along side your NDS game.

But a GBA cart costs more to create/manufacture.  So the expansion would end up costing more than a new DS game.

[norebonomis]

i'm not sure about this but isn't the DS slot faster than the GBA slot? i'm not sure of the point i'm trying to make so don't ask me