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TchuBacha
May 11th, 2005, 19:52
is it possible to play segamega drive games on a gba?
hagbard
May 11th, 2005, 20:03
Probably it's possible but looks that there no megadrive/genesis emulators for gba (http://www.zophar.net/consoles/gameboy.html) publicy available
belmont
May 11th, 2005, 20:27
It is not possible.GBA is not that strong.

Maybe it will be possible with DS...We'll see!
hagbard
May 11th, 2005, 22:41
I think if there are working SNES & PCE emulators for GBA such as PocketSnes, SnesAdvance or PCEAdvance listed at the link I posted (i post it for something :p), pretty obviously a MegaDrive emulator it's also possible because the Sega console it's not as powerfull as the Nintendo one (only a bit faster). GBA it's a really powerfull 32-bit machinel, technically much better than the 16-bit classics. ;)

About NDS, just tell we'll soon see Linux running on that machine :cool:
belmont
May 12th, 2005, 20:53
GBA emulates SNES just because it is a "better portable" version of SNES.
hagbard
May 12th, 2005, 22:08
No, that's totally mistaken. The 32-bit ARM7TDMI CPU of the GBA has nothing to do with the SNES 16-bit 65c816 CPU. The instructions are absolutelly different although it might work at 16-bits, but it's as different from the SNES as the MegaDrive is.
belmont
May 15th, 2005, 19:01
GBA has the same 3dfx chip that latest SNES cardridges had.That's why people say the hardware has similarities...
hagbard
May 15th, 2005, 20:18
SNES carts doesn't ever have any 3DFX chip. I think you're talking about the SuperFX 1 & 2 chips that a few games had, but have nothing to do with 3DFX, which appart from the PC gfx cards & chips, was a 3D API, totally dicontinued. The generated polygons by the SuperFX chip wasn't noticeable to the SNES, it worked on its own, so it was not real 3D.

You might look at SNES (http://www.zophar.net/tech/snes.html) & GBA (http://gbadev.org/index.php) tech docs to see it have nothing to do each other. The GBA CPU it's a ARM7TDMI working at 32-bit, which it's more similar to the PSX CPU than any 16-bits one. It has real 3D though basic capabilities that never had the SNES nor with the SuperFX chips.