Original Gameboy Flash Cart
This looks like it is for a game boy advance XXXrealhotstuff.com/ezflash-size-p-294.html EZFlash IV GBA size ez4phat $35.00 Click to enlarge EZ-FLASH 4 EZCart (GBA Size) features: 256Mb PSRAM (32 Mbytes) 384Mb NorFLASH (48Mbytes) 32Mb Loader (4 Mbytes) 8Mb saver SRAM (1Mbyte) Supports 512Mb - 8Gb (G Bits) Simple cart for all your NDS and GBA needs. Works with miniSD.
- Is there such a thing as a flash cart for the original Gameboy? Can you point me to a link, please?
- Arriving in a sleek clear Color-style case with a snazzy custom label, the Everdrive GB weighs in at a mere 22g and slots into any Game Boy system around - including the later Game Boy Advance units.
This one: EXSEK EZFlash IV EZ4 Cartridge flash cart for gameboy advance GBA SP This does everything exactly as you'd expect: it runs.gba,.gbc, and probably more kinds of files, saving works exactly as how it does on a normal game cartridge, and it worked directly out of the box (minus some sd card reformatting (because the sd card I used.
Supports both NDS (passcard required) and GBA ROMs. Works with slot1 flashcards and provide great GBA games support.
Includes: 1 x EZ4 EZCart Posts merged and it takes sd cards. EZFlash 3 is the best GBA cart ever, IMO. An EZFlash 4 is little more than an EZFlash 3 w/ the NAND replaced by the mini/microSD. It lacks an RTC, does not have RTS and does not require or come w/ a linker. Beyond that it is functionally the same card.
Original Gameboy Flash Cart
I've never encountered a commercial GBA ROM I couldn't play on an EZ4. Obviously games like Boktai (sun sensor) and Pokemon (RTC) need patching, but they can still be played. It's not much of a DS cart these days (what slot 2 cart is), but superior GBA carts are pretty much impossible to find for purchase. If there is some game you are worried about, I can dust off the old EZ4 and test it for you.
Of course, my current collection is pretty much only US titles. I don't use the EZ4 much any more, my slot 2 is almost always either filled w/ my 3-in-1 or my EZ3. I was in the very same situation last year when I bought my Gameboy Micro. I was looking for a decent flash cart. Following sums up what I learnt from those days:. Best GBA flash cards are from GBA 'golden' era (e.g.
EFA linker, EZ-Flash 3.). Those have real-time-save, real-time-clock and a large NAND/NOR ram and perfect compatibility. However, they were rather expensive and required a special linker hw (connected to PC via parallel or USB port) and sw. Nowadays, it's nearly impossible to find them.
They are not sold as new (because their production ended a long time ago) and if someone owns one he will not sell. Because they are very old now there is a big chance they will have battery drained if someone sells them. So better ask seller first or be prepared to change battery yourself. 'Newer' GBA cards which are (sparsely) available are: EZ-Flash IV, Supercard and M3 Perfect.
M3 perfect was produced in three variants according to a memory card type it used (Compact-flash, SD, MiniSD). I recommend you a gba card which uses MiniSD since other ones stick out of GBA/GBM.
Best Gameboy Flash Cart
Unfortunately, according to my research, M3 Perfect is now virtually unavailable from any web-shop what practically casts it to the same group of those from 'golden' era EZ-Flash IV has almost perfect compatibility but has no real-time-save and real-time-clock. It has two types of internal memory - 16MB SDRAM and 32MB NOR. Latter holds data even after turning system off and allows you to launch a game pretty quickly what is handy for a game you want to play regularly. The dark side is that there is a limited number of overwrites you can do with this memory (thousands?) Supercard has compatibility issues caused by slower memory it uses. Some games can be patched to fight this problem, some others cannot Personally, I wouldn't buy this card but rather tried to find some EZ-Flash IV, M3 Perfect or some old 'golden era' card.
M3 Perfect has almost perfect compatibily, real-time-save, real-time-clock. Doesn't need rom patching (if you don't want rts) - rom files can be directly copied to SD card. It has one 32MB SDRAM - every rom is first loaded into this memory from SD card on launch (similar to Supercard or EZ-Flash IV when using its 16MB SDRAM). I think it's the best of these three cards.
Gba Flash Cart
The problem is that it is almost unavailable now. On some sites, you can come upon M3 Perfect Lite version (uses MicroSD) but I am not sure it is really compatible with GBA. Someone says you can place its guts into large GBA size plastic cartridge and it will work connected to GBA (same as Perfect MiniSD). However I can't imagine how MicroSD card can be easily removed then. Resume: I think the best solution is to buy a new EZ-Flash IV. 'Golden' era cards are hard to find (and may have drained batteries or totally damaged because of their age), Supercard has own issues and M3 Perfect is hard to buy now Some more info.