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Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016)

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Re: Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016)

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Post by maxioatic »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #22
messe wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! For me at least, I think the Steam Deck has it beat these days, although I'll admit I miss the smaller form factor sometimes.

Any starting point for steam dock. A run emulation now. Just treat those rom as well roy and start to hack from that I supposed. Btw that is 6 years ago or starting 7. No need of any update?

Guessing you meant to ask "any starting point for steamdeck running emulation now" or something like that.

If so, I'd recommend EmuDeck [1]. It took me about 10 minutes to set up and has emulators for essentially every platform you could want. (Just need to have roms.) Also, it's open source [2].

[1] - https://www.emudeck.com [2] - https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck

Re: Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016)

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Post by throwaway6734 »

haunter wrote: post #11
jayofdoom wrote: post #7

The 3DS hacking scene is still pretty active. Great form factor devices, fully jailbroken. Guide is pretty easy to follow at 3ds.hacks.guide :) I've got mine as the best form-factor emulation station (for older games) you could imagine :).

+1 it's worth it for the NSUI [0] alone. The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! 0, https://3ds.eiphax.tech/nsui

For gba games it's hard to beat the anberic 351p. Almost the same exact size as the gba with the same screen size

Re: Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016)

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Post by giantrobot »

throwaway6734 wrote: post #32
haunter wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 it's worth it for the NSUI [0] alone. The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect! 0, https://3ds.eiphax.tech/nsui

For gba games it's hard to beat the anberic 351p. Almost the same exact size as the gba with the same screen size

I've got a GBA with a backlight mod and a flash cart. Flash carts are a game changer (pun intended) if you've got original hardware. I love systems like the Anberic but if you've got original hardware flash carts are the way to go.

Re: Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016)

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Post by nix23 »

I'm working on a project to use 3DS devices as a Terminal and IoT device with RTMES as the OS. Still in pretty early stage (aka nothing to see here) but used 3DS's are cheaper then RPI's have wireless, a Screen a keyboard (touchscreen), infrared, microphone and speaker and even a UPS (battery) plus two different Cores, so it is a pretty powerfull Device for stuff like that.

Re: Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (2016)

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Post by steponlego »

beebmam wrote: post #4
steponlego wrote: post #3

Back in the '80s there was a lot of save game file hacking going on. My buddy and I would look at save game files for all the hot fun games in the hex editor and try to figure out what values we could change. Bard's Tale had a fairly simple layout, which we painstakingly figured out by, for example, using one item and seeing which values decremented. BTII or III, can't remember, went to some length to prevent this ea…

These days it's far easier to read/edit the memory of running programs than the serialized data saved to disk in save files.

We used to break into the monitor for research sometimes too. Great times, no real OS in the way either.
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