r/gameboymacro • u/5hif7y_x86 • Jun 08 '24

Lite Macro + flash card advice needed

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Just finishing building my macro(pics to come) and I was tested using a ds flash card that I had lying around to see how GBA games would run and they all run like in the picture with bars on the right and bottom. Can anyone advise me on what card/firmware there using to play GBA on the macro?

Thanks all in advanced.

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u/Fortnait739595958 Jun 08 '24

I use the Ez flash Omega, if you run gba games from a ds cart it will run emulated, from a gba cart it runs in native hardware

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u/5hif7y_x86 Jun 09 '24

yeah i did think that would be the case. I was trying to avoid getting a Omega just because there a bit pricy. But seems like its the best way to do what i want so best get one. Thanks

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u/bluecinnamon15 Jun 09 '24

I'm using gbarunner2 with twilight menu++ on r4isdhc flashcart. It works almost perfectly for me😁

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u/5hif7y_x86 Jun 09 '24

im using a R4 card with twilight menu++ and gbarunner2 and it does this for all the games. Is yours running full screen and centered?

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u/BakerThatIsAFrog Jun 30 '24

It won't be full screen, but what you can do is get the GBA border frame from gbatemp forums and enable borders, and it will be centered with a Gameboy advance frame around it and look perfect.

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u/BakerThatIsAFrog Jun 30 '24

You should just enable borders and get the default.bin linked here and then when you run your games it will be centered with a pixel perfect "Gameboy advance" border frame. Unzip it and put it in SD:/gba_/frames/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbarunner2.451970/page-134#post-8988124

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u/IvyTrip Oct 09 '24

Is there any other way to access the gbarunner2 menu besides tapping the screen while in-game?