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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - General Emulation - GBA USB Cartridge (a little help, please) |
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blankpika_re Micro-Goomba                  Since: 11-23-05 Last post: 6657 days Last view: 6657 days |
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| Man. I always need a little help. Anyways,
I was wondering if there was a GBA cartridge with a USB port on it so you could plug in flash drives and stuff. If not, is it possible to make one? If you can't make one, why? (Yeah, why is a dumb question, but how else could I say this?) I thought of the idea when I saw the expensive price for 512MB cartridges, and I realized (having 2 512MB drives) that if I could wire my drive(s) to my GBA/DS, then I could use roms on there and whatnot. And normally, I would google it, but seeing that I can't find a logical name for it (GBA USB cartridge? No. GBA to USB cartridge? No. GBA cartridge with USB port? Too long.), I'll have to ask it here. Thanks for any help. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828   Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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No, and it would kill the batteries really fast. However, there is the GBA Movie Player, Supercard and M3, which have Compact Flash or SD card slots on them. M3 and I think Supercard can be used as a GBA flash cart; GBAMP can launch multiboot GBA apps, play movies and music in its own custom format and view images and text files. (It claims to be able to play NES and GBC games, but all they mean is you can run PocketNES and GoomBA on it.  ) |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Actually yes there is and I have one. It's called EFA (for Extreme Flash Advance), it's worked out just fine for me, bought it at kicktrading.ca. also note that sizes are typically measured in megabits, not megabytes. So a 512M card would be 64MB (divide by eight). (edited by FreeDOS + on 03-06-06 11:40 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| That's just a flash cart that connects to the computer through USB. He asked if there was a flash cart that you could connect a USB flash stick to. (edited by HyperMackerel on 03-06-06 11:46 PM) |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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| Oh I see... well it seems like a good idea, but yeah the batteries would die. Like HH said, you can use GBAMP with CompactFlash and SD cards though, they're low-power storage mediums. | |||
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blankpika_re Micro-Goomba Since: 11-23-05 Last post: 6657 days Last view: 6657 days |
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| Ok, so why did my name change to "-felinian"?
Anyhow, dang. I was really hoping. Ah well. Too good to be true. |
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Thexare Metal battleaxe Off to better places  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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Originally posted by blankpika_re Temporary board name change spree of some sort, dunno if it was automatic or out of *insert admin here*'s boredom. Some variant of that happened to most of us... (edited by Cheveyo Chowilawu on 03-08-06 05:15 AM) |
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PrincessPeach Buzzy Beetle  Since: 11-18-05 From: Rüti ZH Last post: 6316 days Last view: 6316 days |
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| As the Common Flashchips used on Memorysticks are too slow for direct use on a GBA, all those Flashcarts use Flashchips of another kind, like you see used for a CMOS-Chip for a computer BIOS. But as those are not widely needed in the size as for GBA games (8MBytes and up) it gets quite costly.
Cheep alternatives are the Supercard (Most DS and GBA games work) or the M3 (about the same quality). But expept loading times, while the game is copied to RAM inside the cartridge, as a CF or SD-Card is also slower than ROM-Chips in GBA Cards. I myself had a Flash2Advance Pro 256MBit, thats 32MByte and enough for all GBA-Needs, but for DS-Games, and more GBA-Games and homebrew, a Bigger card may be purchased (like F2A Ultra). You should get more help about Flashcards on Pocketheaven, there are also more news about PocketNES, SnesDS and other Emulators for GBA or DS. I hope I could help ya. |
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