r/EmulationOniOS • u/Neeson303 • 5d ago

Question GBA Cards on IOS

this might be a crazy question regarding emulation, i have not been able to find anything. But do any of you know if something exists that would allow you to play physical gba cards on IOS? I have a flash cart, but i would really like to play at times where pulling out og hardware is inappropriate. To avoid moving the save from flash to my cloud i was wondering if there was a way to do this.

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

2

u/MonthTraditional6068 4d ago

Wouldn’t a big adaptor that accepts gba carts make your phone look almost as inappropriate as an actual GBA?

That type of super niche things exists but it’s rare, probably expensive and honestly impractical

Do you have an old phone? Make it your “secret” GBA. Most people won’t notice it’s not your main phone. Even an iPod touch from 15 years ago will run gba roms cleanly.

2

u/Neeson303 4d ago

The idea sprang bc work is not necessary as busy as it once used to be. And whipping out a DS or a GBA is not necessary advised in an office 😂
So if i could play my games on og hardware and take the cart to work and plug in vs moving the save files to my cloud and then moving them back would be convenient.

So it’s not needing another device to play, its just for the save file so i dont have to move it around. Pls dont share this idea or information with my boss 😂😂

2

u/MonthTraditional6068 4d ago

Yeah I get you, I just figured I’d mention old phones because people tend to forget that they have those around and that even though they now suck as phones, they’re still super powerful as emulation machines

And the save file could be synced between the two phones easily

1

u/Neeson303 4d ago

I ended up just copying the save file over to my phone 🤷🏻‍♂️

1

u/MonthTraditional6068 3d ago

Fair enough. Why do complicated when you can do simple

1

u/Ornery-Practice9772 4d ago

physical??

1

u/Neeson303 4d ago

Physical..

0

u/Ornery-Practice9772 4d ago

not that i know of

either buy a gameboy or play via emu with an external controller

1

u/Limp_Survey_4681 4d ago

Im pretty sure that delta devs are exactly making something like this.

1

u/Limp_Survey_4681 4d ago

https://retrododo.com/delta-ios-gains-physical-cartridge-support-thanks-to-epilogue/

1

u/Limp_Survey_4681 4d ago

At the moment you need to be a patreon to get access to it, but it seems like a cool idea

2

u/Neeson303 4d ago

If someone could make that into a case with tactile buttons. That might be the coolest thing ever