Good GBA flash carts

[Evotistical]

Whats your favorite GBA flash cart? Are there any that have GBC/GB compatibility?

[Avanaboy]

I've The ezflash IV , and it is GREAT !
You can play gb/c games using an emulator called goomba color !
This card have an excellent compatibility too and is quite cheap .

[karsten]

found nowhere to buy it... any suggestions?

[Avanaboy]

I've bought it 1 month ago .. I'm writing from my iPhone Now , when I come back home , I'll post the site link ;)

[derekb]

if you can track down a gb bridge you could use one of the older flash only carts as an actual gb/gbc cart (still hoping for an everdrive gb)

[Avanaboy]

Here is the site :

http://www.r4ds-ds.com/products/EZ-F...-sp-p-239.html

Good shopping and have fun :)

[gallos_11]

I bought an Ezflash IV about a year ago, it's really great!

When you'll need to replace the battery, you'll face a big problem! I don't know if I did something wrong, but they could make a better design for battery contacts. I don't think you can avoid soldering and some patent work to fit everything in the tiny space...

[Pikmin]

I bought an EZFlash IV and it came with a dead battery... The seller was kind enough to provide me two spares at no cost. Removing the battery was a b*tch. I cut myself a few times, used a scalpel and I can be persistent.
From what I remember the only downside is that there's no real time clock emulation but luckily I also have a Flash2Advance 512mbit cart that does. Still nothing beats copy and paste to sd card compared to using a usb flash linker and their own software....

[derekb]

doesn't the EZIV require using their software to patch/load roms to the SD?

[Pikmin]

I didn't have to use any software to load roms onto the cart. Just copy and paste using windows explorer.

[12ianma]

I like my 8$ fire linker 128. I have about 20 nes games on it, 8 gameboy color games, and a GBA game on it. Don't like using the parallel port but it is cool that it flashes the cart through the GBA's link port

[gallos_11]

I didn't have to use any software to load roms onto the cart. Just copy and paste using windows explorer.

It doesn't work for me, I have to use their software to patch roms to the SD...

[Azathoth]

I bought an EZFlash IV and it came with a dead battery...

Really? I mean, IV's use a normal battery?

I own an EZ-Flash II that I bought when they first launched that model, it has a rechargeable battery attached to the PCB. Why in the hell would they move away from that?

[Pikmin]

Yeah EZ-Flash IV comes with a rechargeable battery too as far as i know. First I thought it was flat and needed recharging but after 5 hrs of having it connected to my gba + power source it was still saying that the charge was low and my saves kept getting lost. Tried charging it a few more times afterwards to no avail

[gallos_11]

Yeah EZ-Flash IV comes with a rechargeable battery too as far as i know.

I remember replacing a CR2025 battery which definitely isn't re-chargeable. After a quick search found that originally EZ4 was equipped with re-chargeable battery (VL2020), but later revisions (including the ones they currently make) switched to standard batteries...

If I replace standard with re-chargeable, will it work fine? I mean will it be charged normally..?

[Azathoth]

If I replace standard with re-chargeable, will it work fine? I mean will it be charged normally..?

If it originally came with a disposable battery it shouldn't have the circuitry in place to recharge a rechargeable battery. It would work, but just until the charge was gone and it would never recharge on it's own.

[Lum]

Man that sounds irritating.

[gallos_11]

Thank you Azathoth for the info.
Maybe a mod would make it feasible, but don't think will be easy...

Τoo bad for those who bought later version :(

[modrobert]

My favorite flash cart for GBA is the F2A Ultra. Compatibility is great; games play just like an original cart. Stable design based around an ASIC (also lower power consumption compared to FPGA). No crappy RAM loading from SD card which gives slowdown and other buggy effects, this cart uses a flash circuit where the timing properly matches an original cart.

I've tried flash adapters like Supercard SD and CF, that general design loads the data from SD card into a RAM buffer in the device which is a compromise affecting gameplay, feels more like playing on a poorly written emulator, timing is way off at times.

The Nintendo DS doesn't suffer from this effect since the original media is read from like a disc rather than accessed like a ROM, so SD card solutions run fine.

TL;DR version:
Use carts with dedicated flash when playing on GBA. All SD card adapters out there suck regarding hardware compatibility compared to an original cart.