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axlton
06-29-2006, 01:47 AM
hey, couple of quick questions... hopfully you guys can help.

first off, can anyone recomend a good source for snes / gba flash carts...? lik-sang dosn't carry seem to carry them anymore and i don't know of any other importers that i can trust.

second, what carts would you recomend...? I'm not really into what's new hip and trendy when it comes to this stuff.

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CEpeep
06-29-2006, 02:03 AM
I've got a Supercard MiniSD for my GBA/DS. It works great and uses MiniSD cards instead of onboard flash for storage. It was $70 and came with the SuperPass 2 that I needed for the DS. If you pick one up, just make sure you get a fast (at least 133x) MiniSD card to use.
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The 9th Sage
07-02-2006, 04:07 AM
> I've got a Supercard MiniSD for my GBA/DS. It works great
> and uses MiniSD cards instead of onboard flash for storage.
> It was $70 and came with the SuperPass 2 that I needed for
> the DS. If you pick one up, just make sure you get a fast
> (at least 133x) MiniSD card to use.

I myself have an M3 CF version. Around the same price as that SuperCard, you can get it with or without their version of the PassMe you need to boot it in DS mode. Actually, it works similarly to the newer Supercard versions like CE has...stores stuff on the compact flash/SD/whatever, then either runs the file from the compact flash or loads it into onboard memory (needed for all GBA games and some NDS homebrew that needs a GBA flashcart) and then runs it.

If you care about NDS stuff, it's great because you get the best of both worlds...compatibilty with GBA and NDS stuff (including the various kinds of homebrew), and the benefit of having an easy to use memory card as it's storage medium. This is used a lot lately in homebrew as well for storing save data or other sorts of data. Many programs run using files directly from the memory card as well, bypassing the 32 meg limit of stuff that runs from a normal GBA cart or the M3's internal RAM.

I'm not sure which would be better...I'd bet compatibility with things is about the same. A lot of the features are similar as well.
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Oh yeah, and if you care about mainly GBA, you could always get an X-ROM...http://www.easybuy2000.com/store/nintendo%20accessories/x-rom512.shtmlfrom here.</a> It's cheaper than M3 or Supercard at $69 dollars, though I guess it's not THAT much cheaper. Compared to the old style GBA flashcarts it was much cheaper though and honestly after having my M3 I don't want to go back to the old style GBA carts.
*edit 2*
And wtf?
http://www.easybuy2000.com/store/nintendo%20accessories/resources/qbus_tumbzzz_1.jpg
A newer product on their site...is this some kind of knockoff GBA?
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CEpeep
07-05-2006, 01:57 AM
> A newer product on their site...is this some kind of
> knockoff GBA?
>

Easybuy is teh sux.
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The 9th Sage
07-05-2006, 05:28 PM
> Easybuy is teh sux.

Yeah, personally I don't like the sound of it since it says on the site 'Hey! We have this thing here, it connects to a special server so you can now pirate games with absolutely no thought whatsoever!'
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