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Originally Posted by rayburn
I dont see why nintendo made it so you cant play old game boy games.
I like my oracle games and pokemon gold as much as any of my new games.
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It's all about business. Nintendo wants you to buy the latest systems to buy the latest games. If they kept making all of their games backwards compatable to all the previous systems, then there wouldn't be a huge need to purchase the latest system (other than the latest games that can only be played on them). For example, you aren't able to transfer your Pokemon from P.Gold onto the latest games. So they are sorta forcing you to purchase the latest titles if you want to continue with the fad (hence you probably bought a GBA to purchase the other Pokemon titles).
It's just a matter of time before Nintendo does one of the following:
1. Have the Wii's Virtual Console have GB and GBC games (and possibly other portable games from other companies)
2. Create a new model DS with a Virtual Console of it's own (hey, the games were portable, wouldn't it make sense for the downloadable games to be aswell?)
3. Create a new adapter for the DS to play retro games.
If it was my bet, put your money on one of the first two to happen.
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Originally Posted by Zonack
Soo pretty much Minish Cap and Phantom Hourlglass only on DS
And Link's Awakening, Oracle of Season and Ages on a GBA SP?
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Correct!
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Oh damn another question... A Link to The Past / 4 Swords on is for GBA right?
To play it multiplayer I need 2 GBA or a GBA and a DS is ok?
Like : 3 GBA, 1 DS
3 DS, GBA
2 DS, 2 GBA etc.
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Sadly, no. The GBA and the DS have no way of communicating with eachother (sure there are some "wireless adapters" for the GBA, but it's not the same as using Wifi or whatever communication the DS uses for multiplayer).
In my personal opinion, it's one of the reasons why FS was one of the least popular games in the Zelda series (there were quite a few requirements just to play it).
-BGS