Sunday, October 4, 2009

Game boy advance flash cart summary

It's getting a bit hard to find Flash carts for the GBA these days. At the moment Deal Extreme seems to be the only place still selling them at anythink like reasonable prices. You can also use these carts on a NDS to play GBA games, or even NDS games, if you buy a "pass-me" cart as well.

supercard - cheap and fairly good compatibility but has slow ram that can cause problems with some games. Real time save is a nice feature though. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2734

Ez-Flash IV - more expensive, but works with 100% of the games out there. No real time save, and sometimes you have to mess around a bit to get saving to work at all (see my post on advance wars). This is what I have, and I'm quite happy with it. Enough people own this that there's an excellent FAQ and active user forum. This is good, because the docs that come with the product are quite abysmal. EZ-Flash claims to have stopped making this product on their website but when I emailed them they told me that this is still in production, and that the one sold by deal-extreme is genuine, which is where I purchased mine.

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