MMD .gba compatibility petition

[adamned]

with my signiture it has 233.

[wiz13]

mine made it 400 somthin but i hope datel gets the picture those lying @$$holes

[ButterBeer121]

Signed. 448 right now.

[DanTheManMS]

...you do realize that GBA compatibility would require a hardware modification, right?

There's no way to update the firmware to support it. It's physically impossible. Yes they lied, or it was a marketing error or something, but it's stupid to demand something that cannot be granted no matter how many requests they get.

[murgero1]

no, a software update will do it.... i know i am a little late but
Datel did lie sure, i looked at the hardware no RAM. software can emulate... *cough* Virtual RAM *cough*..... Yes i used 2GB virtual RAM for my computer..... (software not hardware.)
All we need is an emulator that will make like 30mb Virtual RAM before starting the GBA HB rom.... oh, and why does the PSP play GBA games? no ram on the memory stick.

30mb is for the big emulators or hombrews........ just to say.

[DanTheManMS]

Except that virtual RAM is:
1. Impossible on the DS, as it requires a MMU - Memory Management Unit - which the DS does not have
2. Waaaay too slow to run GBA files. See http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/NAND_and_NOR for more info.

The PSP has 32 MB of RAM that it uses to copy the GBA game into before emulating it. 32 MB games are probably streamed from the memory card into RAM as needed, like the way SNEmulDS works with large (>3 MB) SNES games. This would not work on the DS because:
1. The DS only has 4 MB of RAM, not nearly enough to copy entire games to.
2. There is no GBA emulator for the DS in the first place

I hope you realize that none of these device makers are capable of creating emulators of their own. The only way Datel would be able to supply GBA playback to the MMD would be if some homebrew developer created a GBA emulator for all devices, which isn't going to happen because the DS already contains near-100% compatible hardware emulation that greatly exceeds anything a software emulator could possibly provide.