3DS Can Play Game Boy Advance Games Without Emulation

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Fun fact: there’s some GBA games that have a built in sleep mode, and it triggers the 3DS’s sleep mode like normal. Just remember the button combo to bring it out of sleep mode.

It's funny how in that same generation, pretty much the exact same thing happened with the Wii U and Gamecube games. The system was capable, but Nintendo just never did anything with it.

I think this video was a subliminal message on how to play mother 3 in English.

Nothing fills me with more excitement that getting to hear Jon talk about backwards compatibility for 10+ minutes The only thing that gets me more excited is hearing Jon talk about image quality for 10+ minutes

Its a shame Nintendo didn't take more advantage of this, even if the GBA's all star library is a lot of remakes.

"I'm not a liar" >Cuts to a sponsor not narrated by John

Tip for anyone playing games with pixel perfect mode, trying playing with the lights off at night. You hardly notice how much of it is not used when you already have a hard time seeing anything but the game

BTW you can enable the GBA startup screen on VC injects by holding Select when turning the system on to load Luma's settings and enabling "Show GBA boot screen in patched AGB_FIRM"

Nintendo: You still can't play MOTHER 3 outside of Japan. Jon: wink wink

been injecting gba roms on my 3ds for a couple years now, it's fun! i can play pokemon gen 1-7 all on the same system, which i think is neat, and the only 'not legit' section is gen 3. they really should've put them on vc

Twilight menu next + NDS forwarder next? And yes, i also did this for years, my 3DS is a emulation beast, i love it

Another great feature of open agb firm is that managing save files is way easier. They’re just put in a folder on your sd card while injects take several steps to backup saves

I was just reading up on the ARM7 in the 3DS! Crazy how both the Wii U and 3DS had double backwards compatibility that was barely used....

Let me just say this. You have a pretty impressive voice and could be a great news anchor or a radio announcer for a product or as a radio host.

One neat thing I found out while playing GBA games on a DSi using GBArunner2 is that using it you can actually extend the rendering of the game itself to fully fit the DS's screen to give you an additional 16 horizontal and 32 vertical pixels. Pokemon Ruby was the only game I tested with this and the game actually does render parts of the screen that aren't shown. The world think renders 16x16 tiles at a time, and with the frame extended not only can you see the unused vertical tiles, but also how the screen shifts horizontally and its pretty cool. You can also see some random data, as well as parts of the Hoenn town map that aren't usually fully shown

Being an ambassador also got you early access to the new 3ds ambassador before it launched. Which was nice

These games were some of the few that I had when I was younger my 3DS and it lead me to becoming a fan of a love of these series! I'm quite glad these are getting the spotlight they deserver, and there's something new to discover about them every day!

I've been following profi200's OAF project since early 2022. I love how it feels like you've turned your 3DS into a GBA with a flash cart in it! Such a fantastic project and I'd love to see profi200 finally implement that GUI they've been working on for so long.

Long live the 3DS!