May be you will ask,Can I play GBA games on Nintendo DSi / DSi XL consoles? and How to do?

Since NDSi / NDSi XL removes the SLOT-2 ,which means the GBA card or some other flash cards similar to GBA flash card ,NDSi player can not play GBA games via GBA flash card or other device that similar to GBA card.However, there was a good news from Nintendo official website that Nintendo Team will develop some Nintendo DSi application software to support the GBA games on NDSi system,which will be in official NDSi online store, till now we didn’t see any further news after that .

If the Nintendo DSi / DSi XL owners want to play GBA games, in September,2009 the DSiPlayer.com team developed a new and great flash card named Nintendo DS iPlayer.The DS iPlayer flash card is built-in with a strong CPU (the CPU is running over capacity DSi hardware) multimedia flash card for DSi / DSi XL / DS / DS Lite consoles, and allows NDSi system run RMVB, FLV, RM,mp3 directly, and other mainstream video format and playback of multiple audio formats. After the DS iplayer flash card released about 1 month, there is one guy ,named Darkchen(http://darkchen.blog.com/),who developed a “DS iPlayer GBA emulator” for dsiPlayer ,which has a good compatibility between GBA games and Nintendo DS i / DSi XL console .So, this feels like the first time we knew that GBA game can be played on Nintendo DSi / DSi XL .

This iPlayer GBA emulator has a very nice function ,see more as below:

1. Video & Audio Graphic size: Original size
Game fast forward: default is off. The frame skip level will be set into 9 when you turn on it, then you can play games with the fastest speed

Frame skip type: default is auto, you can set it into Manual, then you can set the frame skip level
Frame skip level: the higher level the faster game speed

Sound switch: switch on/off the sound

2. Save State

• Write game state: limited 32 slots
• Read game state: read saves with the screenshot and date

3. Cheats

• Supports Pro Action Replay/Gameshark codes.
• Put the cheat files into /Gamecht/

4.Tools

• Screen snapshot:
• Save the pics as .png format into /Gamepic/
• Supports auto display pics

5. Others

• Supports Auto standby
• Supports CHT/ENG

Note:
Suggest to format microsd card into FAT format, it’s faster :p

How to use:

• 1st, Make sure the fireware and OS of your iPlayer is the lastest version
• 2nd, There are CHT/ENG 2 emulators in the zip file. Install the one which fit your iPlayer
• 3rd, Copy the whole NDS-GBA folder and files into /_system/

Useful Link:

1. DS iPlayer Firmware Download

2. DS iPlayer Guide & FAQ

Drakchen Blog: http://darkchen.blog.com/