How To Play Old GameBoy Advance Games On a Nintendo Lite Console

The Nintendo DS lite console supports backwards compatibility with only old GameBoy Advance games, GameBoy Color and Original games however don't work. This means that you can still play them without having a separate GameBoy Advance SP console to play them on, which makes it very convenient for you. There are two game cards slots on the Nintendo DS lite console that are labeled, slot 1 is for DS games, which is found at the top of the console, which you probably already know about. Then there is slot 2, for GameBoy Advance games, which is found at the bottom of the console near the touchscreen. When playing GameBoy games on your Nintendo DS lite console, it will only display the game on one screen not both, also it will have no touchscreen capabilities. This is because the games only support one screen, as they were originally created for the GameBoy that had no second screen to interact with.

1) Power off your Nintendo DS lite by flicking the 'Power Switch' upwards. This is essential to do because you don't want the system memory to get corrupted while inserting a games cartridge into the console.

2) Look at the bottom side of your Nintendo DS lite console. The long rectangular thing inserted into bottom of the console is the dust cover for the GameBoy Advance games to go into. Nintendo did this to prevent dust go into the slot, when you're not using your DS to play GameBoy games. You want to remove the dust cover, there will be a 'Curvy' grove at the back of the DS. Insert your finger into it and push it downwards, this will remove the dust cover.

3) Insert the GameBoy Advance game into the slot, making sure that it is inserted in the correct way up. You can now flick the 'Power Switch' on your Nintendo DS lite console and the game will automatically start. When you have finished playing your GameBoy game, remove the cartridge by pulling it out and replace the dust cover.