I know there are some adapters that will allow you to play GBA roms on your GBA, and also GB and NES games on it as well.

I'm just wondering if anyone owns any, and if so, where'd they get it, how does it work, how well does it work, and just general questions about them.

I am stupid when it comes to this kind of thing, kthx.

10/14/2005 1:21:44 AM

I don't own one, but from what I remember there is a (not adapter) cartridge that allows you to load about +-1gb worth of roms onto it and play.

10/14/2005 1:45:55 AM

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=6&products_id=3983&

10/14/2005 10:27:50 AM

They have a really good adapter on Amazon right now. It's a bit pricey, but it's really good.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007TFLLC/qid=1129303722/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0016014-1855357?v=glance&s=pc&n=507846

10/14/2005 11:30:14 AM

that's very funny.

looking for serious answers only, please

^^thanks for the info. I've bought some stuff from lik-sang before though and the quality isn't very good.

^^^do you know anyone that owns one, or might know? I'd like to look into that idea if I could.

10/14/2005 5:13:53 PM

http://www.gameboy-advance.net/flash_linker/ezf_advance_ezfa_realtime_cart.htm

I have one of these. Works very well! Only thing I wish I had done was gotten a larger size. They're measured in mega-bit sizes, not mega-byte. Most GBA ROMs are 8 megs, but some larger ones (like RPGs with lots of data) are usually 16 megs. NES ROMs are 2-4 megs, usually... I'm pretty sure they have to be ported over by having a different bootstrap -- but I'm not sure the specifics on that, I mostly stick to GBA roms. GB ROMs need to be compatible with a GB-GBA Bridge (http://www.gameboy-advance.net/site/shopping_guide.htm)... dunno much about that.

How they work -- You use a cable (provided with cart) to hook link port up to your usb port. Put some cartridge in to your GBA, start up the loader program on your computer, and turn on GBA, holding down select button (will hear two sounds when it starts and succeeds in connecting). If the cartridge is a normal GBA game, you can download its ROM file. If the cartridge is a flash cart, you can upload multiple roms to it -- so you can have more than one game on your GBA.

When you startup your gameboy (disconnected from PC) with the flash rom in, you'll get a menu of the roms you have. Select a game, and it starts up as if it were the real thing.

Another cool thing (i don't know if other flash packages support this) is usually you can download the save-game information on a cartridge separate from the actual game rom. Or load up save-game information on top of the old stuff... so in some games (i think Metroid did it) where you had automatic saves, you could still go back in the game. Some games don't do this -- like Zelda. They save the save game info in the game rom segment, so you should keep a copy of the original virgin rom file.

This flash cartridge fits in the same dimensions as a normal gba cart... so it looks to most people like you're not a total nerd. Although it's red -- i've had kids come up to me and want to play pokemon, and been surprised to see me playing something japanese. Oh yeah, it plays japanese roms too.

Looks like they've gone down a bit in price. My 128 was about 100$ 2 years ago. Looks like a 256 is about 80$ now (http://www.jandaman.com/games.mvc?c=GBADEVKIT). One other thing to pay attention to is if the cart has a realtime clock in it. Pokemon is the only game I know of that uses this though... Basically the cart has a battery in it that keeps the clock going. The battery charges through the USB cable when hooked up.

10/15/2005 3:12:37 PM

^is that measured in megabits or megabytes though?

I'm just now noticing that all the things are saying like 512 Mb and 1Gbit instead of megabyte

which is really a fucking ripoff considering a 512 Mbit x-rom card, for example, costs like 70 dollars, and that's really only like 75 MB of information

wtf

10/18/2005 2:03:04 AM