Cripes!
Mr Postman delivered my GBA Flash Cart this morning before 9am! Hows that for eBay service! Ordered yesterday afternoon – delivered today!
I unboxed my new toy and slapped it into the USB port on my XP box and installed the drivers, briefly read the instructions (ignored most of it) and launched the program from the included CD to upload some **ahem** backups of my games I already own.
ERROR: NOT ENOUGH ROOM
The Cart stated that it had 256mb free… but only 256MB RAM – not ROM…. Hmm…
I tried to format the card using the same program – but it just crashed every time.
Thoughts of negative eBay feedback entered my mind as I re-read the instructions.
I went off to the manufacturers website and began to download the latest version of the upload client and was a small part way through downloading it over my 2Meg ADSL line at 3.2kb a second when I found a slightly older version on another site. Downloaded that – unRARed it and tested… it worked!!!
I was able to pick my ROM images and load them into the application ready for uploading.
So why did’nt Mr eBay supply the latest version of the client too? He did supply his own CD with the drivers on, but they were obviously the old version!
So I now have …er… some ROMs on the cart. And for the record.. it works – perfectly!
It boots to a loader screen (with wallpaper you can change) and you arrow up and down the list of games and press the A Button to load them.
I don’t know why I did’nt get one years ago!
Now, i’m off for another “pretend poo” to play.
And tonight, I will be mostly searching the internet for ROMs and Emulators.
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November 4, 2005 at 1:53 pm
Sounds cool! Me wanna play!
October 14, 2006 at 4:40 am
I’m thinking of doing this as I just purchased a Gameboy Advance SP and love it, but the games are so freakin’ expensive… plus I hear you can throw like 1000+ NES roms on one 512mb card… I’d love to play old Mario, etc. while riding passenger in my car??? Nice…
My one concern… Do you think it’s possible that the GBA could somehow catch a virus off a bad rom and quit working or something of that nature. Not sure if you’d even know that, but I’m thought I’d share my concern with someone and see…
Cheers,
~ J.
October 14, 2006 at 7:55 am
No. I have never read about such a thing happening.
The next thing is to get a flash rom based hack for my DS!
Get one! It’s well worth it! You won’t regret it – i promise.