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Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] by 8note on Thursday January 16, 2025 @01:13PM (#42728772)
im pretty sure all the later versions of gameboys could play the old games, so long as the cartridges have the same package and connector.

the GBC games just didnt fit well in the DS

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Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] by chungy on Thursday January 16, 2025 @02:05PM (#42729466)
The DS can't play GBC games at all, it doesn't have the Z80 CPU from that console to even provide backwards compatibility. Nintendo also removed it from the Game Boy Micro, making it a GBA-only console.
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