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| Naruto Collection (GC, JPN) Includes Fairly Functional GBA Emulator |
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| Doom:
Original thread: http://gbatemp.net/threads/naruto-collection-gc-includes-gba-emulator.346289/ This is weird. It's Japan-only. The ISO contains 6 .tgc files, which can be converted to .gcm / .iso files. They can then be extracted again to find .bin files that can be renamed to .gba and played in VisualBoyAdvance. I had difficulty with this but someone else says it works. At any rate, these are GBA ROMs running on a GBA emulator made for GameCube. There's no way Eighting / TOMY developed this emulator on their own. In fact, someone else discovered that the "maker code" (developer ID in all GameCube discs) belongs to Nintendo! It's not Game Boy Player code, though, as the GBP is hardware-based. This is all done in software. Related: Pokemon Box contains four GBA ROMs. The purpose of the GBA and the GBA->GCN cable is verifying you have the cartridge and uploading your save file. Then the game sneakily loads its own copy of the game from the disc. Think about it: uploading a 16MB ROM over one of those cables? It would take ages! (For the cables and ports on the GBA / GameCube to be cheap, there's no way the speed is anything close to USB.) This confirms that the ROMs stored on the Pokemon Box disc are very similar to standard GBA ROMs. But they are slightly different and don't load in any GBA emulators. --- Quote ---I replaced this .bin with Sonic Advance 2 and it worked, this thing is a fully working GBA emulator, but it doesn't save. 32MB roms don't work, tried Mother 3 and Kingdom Hearts. --- End quote --- Sonic Advance 2 is notable because all current GameCube / Wii emulators don't work very well with the game. If this thing is Nintendo-developed (which it is), it may even have better support for obscure ROMs than any PC-based emulators. |
| wiggy:
Man, seems like there are some seriously cool finds like this lately. This, the guy who was/is working on making F-zero and Mario Kart arcade playable on the Wii potentially picking up the project again, and the recent Sega Pluto find are just total nerd candy! |
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