So I got a GBA and a couple of games as a retro gift this christmas and when looking into some ways to personalize it with things like a new shell or a backlit screen I stumbled upon the fact that someone has made a semi-functional SNES emulator for the console. Now I have an old SNES and a super mario world cartridge for it so I figure it would be awesome if I could play super mario world on my new GBA.

From a cursory examination it looks like the standard method is to buy a special cartridge and then a special usb adapter to flash data onto that cartridge… which is frankly expensive as fuck… But I’ve also seen something about GBA cartridges that take an SD card and am wondering if that works just as well as a more accessable option?

This is my primary source of info

  • Classy HatterEnglish
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    3 months ago

    At the top of the page it says:

    SNES Advance emulator works on all modern GBA Flash Cards. The ones that are not compatible are QBus QBoy flash cards, and SuperCard users have to remember to write roms to CF or SD card using the SuperCard software otherwise SNES emu will not work.

    So, going by that, SD cards should be fine.