The Nintendo DS specs
Nintendo's New System specs was leaked to the net and we got em:

Oficial Nintendo Description:

CPU Core Main Processor - ARM946E-S (Running at 67 MHz) Cache: 8 KB Instruction Cache, 4KB Data Cache TCM: 8KB Instruction, 4KB Data Sub Processor - ARM7TDMI (Running at 33 MHz)

Memory Main Memory - 4 MB (Debug version has 8 MB) ARM9/ARM7 Shared - 32KB (16KB x 2) ARM7 Internal RAM - 64 KB VRAM - 656 KB

LCD Display Size - 256 x 192 RGB Screens x 2 Display Colors - 262,144 colors 2D Graphics Engine Background - Maximum 4 layers Objects - Maximum of 128 3D Graphics Engine Geometric Transformation - Max 4 million vertex/sec Polygon Rate - Max 120,000 polys/sec Pixel Fillrate - Max 30 million pixels/sec

Sound 16 channel ADPCM/PCM (Max 8 channels can be set to PSG) Microphone input

Wireless Communication 802.11 Protocol

Input Device Touch Panel Direction Pad, A, B, L, R buttons, Start, Select (X, Y buttons being considered)

Power Save Sleep mode (WakeUp possible at set times or by wireless communication) Power save for 2D engine, rendering engine, geometry engine, LCD screen possible

NINTENDO Patented Emulators
The Register today stating that Nintendo has sucessfully patented 'Software implementation of a handheld video game hardware platform', or as we know it, handheld emulators. This technically means that Nintendo could demand royalties from GBA emulator authors, although their chances of actually doing so are very slim. Here is an excerpt from the article:

The filing outlines a "software emulator for emulating a handheld video game platform on a low-capability target platform (eg. a seat-back display for airline or train use, a personal digital assistant, a cell phone)". It goes on to outline "a number of features and optimisations to provide high quality graphics and sound that nearly duplicates the game playing experience on the native platform."

It is kind of vague what exactly "low capability" means, but is still interesting regardless.

Read the entire article here.
Read the patent information here

Back on Track
First of all i would like to say that its good to be back. Welcome all loyal users of gbx ;) Well you guys must been wonding what happend to gbxemu.com these few weeks? well much had happend. Firstly our hoster was down coz the company got shutdowned. The owner of the company ran away with the company money and left. So that hosting company had to shut down. So we were waiting for the hoster to be back but unfortunately it did not. So were trying our best to find a new server and hopefully our mirros server will handle all request properly right now. And as for the rumour about GBXEMU.COM SOLD and all those shit are just some hoax some hackers trying to pull off. I did not email everyone saying gbxemu is gonna be shutdown or whatever. All those are the evil attemps from the Emuvortex ppl. They also hacked our forum which was running smoothly until frikendevil hacked it multiple times. Were still waiting for the admin forum to patch some security holes of the forum. Still havent heard news from them yet. Anyway other that that chat is up site is up forum is still waiting to be up. So i hope everything will get back on track. As for the latest news posting we didnt manage to backup the latest news so ;) haahha will keep updating new news and new articles here on the site. So keep on coming. Any contribution of articles and new news breakers is apriciated. Send me an email ... its good to be back ;)

SNES on GBA - HOT TOPIC IN GBA EMU NOW !
There where many people in the Emu forums that were coming up with all kind of silly reasons why emulating SNES on GBA is impossible. 32-Bit 16.7 mhz ARM processor that Gameboy has is not powerful enough to emulate 16-Bit CPU 3.58mhz CPU of Super Nintendo - WRONG. SNES has 6 buttons and Gba has only 4 - Most games don't need all 6 and for the ones that do require them use Select+L to emulate the snes Select button.Once it was cool for the "hardcore" gamers to make fun of the n00bs who asked if there will be Snes2gba, SnesOnGBA or SnesToGBA emulator. Most common answer was: "When HELL freezes over". What will they say now? Check it out

GAMEBOY UTILS UPDATE: Little Writer
Latest Version 1.0.8.1:
-Fix Backup Rom with Card X-Rom
-Fix Backup SRAM with Card X-Rom Fix some bug

Download it under GAMEBOY - UTILITIES section

Sunday, February 8 2004 - VisualBoyAdvance version 1.7.1 released
quote: "It will be a while before the next release as I plan to improve the emulator's timing. This was mainly a bug fix release for the problems with version 1.7."
Click Here to Download *BURP* ;-) M.

Forum Is Down
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Fun Stuff Section Added
Nothing much there though just some few hoax pictures of the new Nintendo Gameboy DS heheheh im not even sure they haved designed it already. Nehh its just for fun .. check it out ..