iPod Nano "6G" good for GBA (SP or Micro) emu

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One thing that many people did not notice about the iPod Nano "6G" was that it almost has the same specifications as the Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP (GBA, GameBoy, GameBoy Color games compatibility), or GameBoy Micro (GBA games compatibility only). There are a lot of games that were released for the GBA (in color too). If the iPod Nano "6G" has a powerful enough of a processor, it would have no problems emulating those games. The main difficulty would be using the touch screen to emulate the buttons, because as soon as two of your fingers are on the screen, you have almost covered up all the visibility. At a minimum it would be able to emulate the GameBoy or GameBoy Color (with their weaker CPU).

Here are some specifications:

iPod Nano "6G"
CPU: Samsung Arm
Screen: 240x240 resolution
Colors: ? (first gen was 16 bit color = 65536 max colors)
Memory: 64MB
Storage: 8GB



GameBoy Micro:
CPU: 32-bit 16.8 MHz ARM processor (ARM7TDMI)
Screen: 240x160 resolution
Colors: 15bit (5 bits per primary of RGB) = 32768 max colors
Memory: 128kB (in cpu) + 256kB (external) = 384kB
Games: Supports GBA games only


GameBoy Advance SP:
CPU: 32-bit ARM7TDMI with embedded memory.
Co-processor: 8-bit Zilog Z80 (for GB and GB Color game compatibility)
Screen: 240x160 resolution
Colors: 15bit (5 bits per primary of RGB) = 32768 max colors
Memory: 96kB VRAM + 32kB RAM (both in CPU) + 256kB DRAM (outside CPU) = 384kB RAM total
Games: GBA, GameBoy Color, GameBoy


GameBoy Color
CPU: Custom 8-bit Zilog Z80 8MHz
Screen: 160x144
Colors: 56 max (chosen from 32768)
Memory: 16kB VRAM + 32kB DRAM = 48kB RAM total


GameBoy
CPU: Custom 8-bit Sharp LR35902 4.19MHz
Screen: 160x144
Colors: 4 max (greyscale)
Memory: 8kB VRAM + 8kB S-RAM = 16kB RAM total