Snes on GBA possible??

Mad · May 24th, 2003

i know its pretty hard to believe, but i found this info, and wanna know your opinions.
link

**Kane** · May 24th, 2003

I really don't think so. The GBA can have code ported to it and run SNES games that way, but IMO there is not enough power to do it on the fly as it were

May 24th, 2003

isnt the screen resolution a bit of an issue as well?

**Kirby** · May 25th, 2003

Quote:

Originally posted by Samor
isnt the screen resolution a bit of an issue as well?

I don't know. Wasn't there a handheld that could play genesis cartridges way back when?

May 25th, 2003

I'd say they would have a res issue. Well... sorta. If you tried to play snes stuff on a real GBA, you'd be in trouble. From everything that's been ported from the snes, they didn't have to change resolution much from what it looks like, they have just had to reposition all of the icons and make chars bigger... way bigger, because the GBA screen is just so daaaaaaaamn tiny.

**Kane** · May 25th, 2003

>I don't know. Wasn't there a handheld that could play genesis cartridges way back when?

The nomad. IIRC it dissapeared into the bowels of history without a trace.

**Kirby** · May 25th, 2003

either that or squeeze the entire screen to a spec of about nothing. The text would be so small you can't even rad it probably. You'll have to lover the resoltuion, severely

[squire] · May 28th, 2003

the processing power of the gba isn't enough to directly emulate
the snes.
as for all the ports of the games that have come out,
the usually use the same graphics that's why the sprites looks so
big, as the resolution of the gba is only 240x160 if i remember
correctly.

other emulators that have appeared on the gba, like the nes,
master system, pc engine and spectrum. all give the option to scale
the image to fit onto the gba's resolution, as even the speccy had
a higher resolution than the poor gba. but this means you loose
some lines of graphics, so if pixels are drawn on one of those lines
it won't even be seen.

as for the sega nomad, it was a portable sega genesis/megadrive
that was released in japan and america. it had six buttons, aswell
as the start and mode buttons, a back light, and a tv out.
you can usually track them down on eBay.

[squire]

Blue Spirit · May 28th, 2003

sounds good
i mean i would defenetly play FF VI on gba or chrono trigger
i hope it will become realty

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May 24th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	I really don't think so. The GBA can have code ported to it and run SNES games that way, but IMO there is not enough power to do it on the fly as it were __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 25th, 2003	#6 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	>I don't know. Wasn't there a handheld that could play genesis cartridges way back when? The nomad. IIRC it dissapeared into the bowels of history without a trace. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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Kirby I want you INSIDE me Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 8,365	either that or squeeze the entire screen to a spec of about nothing. The text would be so small you can't even rad it probably. You'll have to lover the resoltuion, severely __________________ Kirby's AnimeDB list AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ Toledo, Nvidia GeForce 7950GT SLi, 2GB PC3200 2-3-2-5, ABit AN8-SLi, Sound Blaster X-FI XtremeMusic

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May 24th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Samor Guest Posts: n/a	isnt the screen resolution a bit of an issue as well?

May 25th, 2003	#5 (permalink)
Modem Guest Posts: n/a	I'd say they would have a res issue. Well... sorta. If you tried to play snes stuff on a real GBA, you'd be in trouble. From everything that's been ported from the snes, they didn't have to change resolution much from what it looks like, they have just had to reposition all of the icons and make chars bigger... way bigger, because the GBA screen is just so daaaaaaaamn tiny.

May 28th, 2003	#8 (permalink)
[squire] Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 5	the processing power of the gba isn't enough to directly emulate the snes. as for all the ports of the games that have come out, the usually use the same graphics that's why the sprites looks so big, as the resolution of the gba is only 240x160 if i remember correctly. other emulators that have appeared on the gba, like the nes, master system, pc engine and spectrum. all give the option to scale the image to fit onto the gba's resolution, as even the speccy had a higher resolution than the poor gba. but this means you loose some lines of graphics, so if pixels are drawn on one of those lines it won't even be seen. as for the sega nomad, it was a portable sega genesis/megadrive that was released in japan and america. it had six buttons, aswell as the start and mode buttons, a back light, and a tv out. you can usually track them down on eBay. [squire]

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