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Beginners > MBV2 and Flash Carts

#12398 - LOOP-HOG - Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:36 am

I've looked around, and read a few FAQs, but still can't quite seem to get the info I want so here are some questions.

i would like to dabble a bit in GBA Development, maybe write some test patterns and some sprite demos in Assembly and then show my friends to gross them out. No big Whoop.

Ok, so there is the MBV2 cable, which seems like a pretty good choice because there is a comms mode so you can send debug info back to the PC, also if i am not mistaken you should be able to send data to a running GBA program through the samesaid interface. correct? did I read the FAQ wrong?

That should be ok, but I would also like to be able to program a Flash cartridge so I can just bring my goo to work and show them without setting up something on a PC at work.

In this FAQ

http://www.devrs.com/gba/files/mbv2faqs.php

It says " Only Flash Advance, Flash Advance Turbo, and official Nintendo flash carts. EZF Advance, Flash2Advance, and game carts that you buy at your local game store are not supported."

So, which ones where those?

http://home.t-online.de/home/marhal/gbxreview.htm ?????

http://www.flashadvance.com/ ???? the one with the 256M in bold letters

http://fafaq.gbaemu.com/ ????? the Xtreme one?

http://www.gameboy-advance.net/flash_card/flash_advance_256m_card.htm

are the aforementioned carts still even evailable??

thanks for your help in ADVANCE :^)

LOOP-HOG

#12399 - yaustar - Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:22 am

http://www.gbax.com
or even check out the retailer feedback topic for more shops.

No, you wont them in your local high st store like EB/Game
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#12401 - tepples - Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:18 pm

With the MBV2 cable
Some people have reported successes programming F2A 256 Mbit carts (but not the smaller carts) with the MBV2 cable.

With the F2A linker
If you buy an F2A cart, it'll usually come bundled with a linker similar to MBV2 except that it plugs into USB. The most recent F2A host program can transfer any .mb program to the GBA as well; you may not even need the MBV2 cable at all.
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