Are all GBA games compatible with DS?

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#1 Dahaka-UK
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I'm thinking of ebaying a few GBA games, think I'm going to buy golden sun 1&2 just wanted to know is every game compatible or jus a fixed number.
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as far as it has being announce (or as far as i know) they are all compatible.

Nintendo.com says that DS is compatible with DS and GBA games, and do not clarify any exceptions so :)

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hablas espanol or you just know a few words??

if you do... another hispanic here?? :D

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#5 Corvidae
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The only games you would have issues with are the ones with the built in motion sensing, since the DS is bigger. But I can only think of a few games that have that (Kirby's Tilt & Tumble and Wario Ware: Twist).
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#6 Best1989
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[QUOTE="Uchiha_Sasuke1"]si chang_1910

if you do... another hispanic here?? :D

Me, but for some reason, gamespot is in a Witch Hunt for the spanish posts xD

Triste de verdad....

And ya, all the GBA games works with the DS...

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The only games you would have issues with are the ones with the built in motion sensing, since the DS is bigger. But I can only think of a few games that have that (Kirby's Tilt & Tumble and Wario Ware: Twist). Corvidae
No, those work just fine. It's if you try to play them on the Game Boy Player that you run into trouble... that's probably what you're thinking of.

And the "witch hunt" for Spanish posts isn't so. It's just that Gamespot is an English-only website.

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=\ English-only is good. it wont be nice if everyone starts talking in their own language. lol.

And yes.. Ds is compatible with all GBA games.

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yes, all gameboy advance games are compatible, well fully playable, megaman battle network 4 has very small issues with DS
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The only games you would have issues with are the ones with the built in motion sensing, since the DS is bigger. But I can only think of a few games that have that (Kirby's Tilt & Tumble and Wario Ware: Twist). Corvidae
I played Twisted on my DS with no problems.
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I'm thinking of ebaying a few GBA games, think I'm going to buy golden sun 1&2 just wanted to know is every game compatible or jus a fixed number.Dahaka-UK
Maybe you should make sure that you can transfer your datea from GS1 to 2 when you finish the first one. I'm not sure if you'll be able to do that with the ds.
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[QUOTE="Dahaka-UK"]I'm thinking of ebaying a few GBA games, think I'm going to buy golden sun 1&2 just wanted to know is every game compatible or jus a fixed number.hydralisk86
Maybe you should make sure that you can transfer your datea from GS1 to 2 when you finish the first one. I'm not sure if you'll be able to do that with the ds.

That's a good point, something people might want to watch out for.

As far as playing GBA games on the DS I have probably fourty GBA games and they all work just fine on the DS...I've never once had a problem, and I have some pretty old GBA games...

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[QUOTE="Dahaka-UK"]I'm thinking of ebaying a few GBA games, think I'm going to buy golden sun 1&2 just wanted to know is every game compatible or jus a fixed number.hydralisk86
Maybe you should make sure that you can transfer your datea from GS1 to 2 when you finish the first one. I'm not sure if you'll be able to do that with the ds.

Thats what I was thinking, did you need 2 GBAs to do the file transfer? I also remember you could do it buy some kind of password code, but I remember finishing Golden Sun 1 and never got no password? Where do you get this password to carry over to GS 2?

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[QUOTE="Corvidae"]...But I can only think of a few games that have that (Kirby's Tilt & Tumble and Wario Ware: Twist). MAILER_DAEMON

...And the "witch hunt" for Spanish posts isn't so. It's just that Gamespot is an English-only website.

Ya, youre right, I forgot that Gamespot is a english site xD²

Kirby Tilt & Tumble wont work, because isn´t a GBA game, is from GBC. That, or Nintendo did a GBA version and I never hear of it xD

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#15 WSGRandomPerson
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Anything from GBC and below won't work with the DS lite.
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#16 Corvidae
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[QUOTE="MAILER_DAEMON"]

[QUOTE="Corvidae"]...But I can only think of a few games that have that (Kirby's Tilt & Tumble and Wario Ware: Twist). Best1989

...And the "witch hunt" for Spanish posts isn't so. It's just that Gamespot is an English-only website.

Ya, youre right, I forgot that Gamespot is a english site xD²

Kirby Tilt & Tumble wont work, because isn´t a GBA game, is from GBC. That, or Nintendo did a GBA version and I never hear of it xD

Hmmm... I don't know what I'm thinking about then. [Opening a new tab to look it up]...

I can't think of any other motion sensing games, so I don't know what I'm talking about. As for Golden Sun there's a way to get a password at the opening screen by holding certain buttons down. Check GameFAQs.

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#17 sc_ajk29
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All of them are as far as I know, except that multiplayer features on GBA games don't work on the DS.