Originally posted by: C3PX
For any of you DS owner out there,
I have been thinking about buying a new portable system for a while now. I am still using my old Gameboy color, and I was thinking about buying a GB SP since it can play GB Advanced games as well as the old GameBoy and GameBoy Color games, and it has a backlight (I have put up with barely being able to see what I am playing for long enough). Though looking at the price difference between the GB SP and the NDS, I feel tempted to spend a bit extra and get the DS.
Only problem is my old GB and GBC games won't work on it. However, I heard you can emulate old GB and GBC on it. Has any one ever tried this? If this can be done simply enough and without costing a small fortune, then I could just get the rom files for all the GB and GBC games I own and play them this way. So I was wondering if anyone here has done this with their NDS, and if it is very costly or too much of a hassle. If it is going to cost more than fifty bucks to get it setup, I might as well just buy a DS and then get a used GB SP, rather than trying to get the DS to emulate the old games. Though the idea of having ScummVM on a DS with the ability to play Monkey Island in the palm of my hand sounds pretty cool too.
I think all you need is the right wireless card on your computer, and a blank chip or whatever it is that they use for it. There is also the "multicart" way, where you can buy a GBA cart off the net that has lots of the games on them. It's bootleg, that way - but you can make your own. The good adaptors go for about $20 I think, and the cartridges I have no idea. Personally? Just get the DS and keep your GBC handy, cuz that's what I do. 
