Why didn't Nintendo put Gameboy Advance games on 3DS?
Why didn't Nintendo put Gameboy Advance games on 3DS?
Chase Roberts
Levi Scott
because you're too dumb to emulate said games on you phone
Wyatt Carter
They did for early adopters only
Liam Jackson
It was native and not emulation, so you can't save state, sleep when you close the lid, and you can't gracefully exit to the main menu like the other VC games.
Connor Jones
So? Nobody would give a shit, it would've sold like crazy.
Evan Green
You can play them with CFW, natively or with an emulator.
Why haven't you hacked your 3ds, Zig Forums?
Oliver Russell
Probably because it had no save state so it wouldn't work like other VCs, still dumb tho
Dominic Collins
They did lol. I had some
Jaxon Sanders
OP is clearly asking why didn't they sell GBA VCs instead of keeping them as ambassador exclusives, which doesn't make much sense
John Richardson
they released gba on the wiiu vc, so maybe they wanted to entire people to buy those versions instead?
Wyatt Garcia
"Dude we'll release them when the time is right lol" -nintendo
Evan Lee
Apparently they did try to implement proper virtual console support for GBA titles, going by the massive leaks that happened some months ago, but the system was not capable of doing it.
The best they were able to do was run it natively on the 3DS system's ARM processor.
Brandon Mitchell
Because it doesn't meet their usual quality standards.
No one gives a shit now because it's free. It would be different for something you'd have to pay for.
Mason Gutierrez
Ninty was real anal about how they wanted the games to run and the 3DS was not cutting it.
Liam Robinson
link?
Ian Rodriguez
>The best they were able to do was run it natively on the 3DS system's ARM processor.
And what’s wrong with that? It’s the best possible way to run those games.
Adam Anderson
They wouldn't have had save states
Jaxson Ramirez
we don't need save states.
Jordan Jones
the 3ds wasnt as powerful as gba ?
Connor Nguyen
Hackers do what Nintendon't
Kayden Hall
you got a source on that? I would really like to read more
Easton Wilson
Not enough to emulate it.
Cameron Gray
They couldn't get the emulator to work at a high enough level of quality to justify selling it.
>but the ambassador program!
The DS natively contains the chipset of the GBA the way the GBA contained the chipset of the GB. Specifically the GBA chipset would run the touchscreen functionality when in DS mode, or when playing a GBA game, just run the GBA game natively. The 3DS is the same architecture as the DS, just faster and with more memory. This means the same chipset that could natively play GBA games in the DS is also in the 3DS. The Ambassador Program just used that directly.
Aiden Green
more importantly, why didn't the stick stay with the same color as the 3ds model?
Cameron Adams
en.wikipedia.org
>32 bit ARM7TDMI coprocessor
en.wikipedia.org
>32-bit ARM7TDMI
en.wikipedia.org
>The system also contains a single-core ARM9-based processor, enabling backward compatibility with both Nintendo DS and DSi titles
en.wikipedia.org
>ARM9TDMI is a successor to the popular ARM7TDMI core
Christopher Ward
I'm pretty sure he meant the first part. No one's denying the 3ds can run gba natively.
Justin Mitchell
I think he meant sources for the proper VC, everyone knows that.
Evan James
lol right, every old 3ds render you see has the blue circle pad. It probably would have lasted more thann that shitty rubber too
Ryan Watson
I wanted what he said about the leaked documents tho.
Juan Williams
They ran like shit on the old 3DS.
Angel Morgan
oh. i know the answer. because they are fucking retarded
Caleb Thomas
GBA VC? No, they ran at full speed.