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Flash Equipment > About Flash Advance Linker

#14512 - Serain - Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:15 pm

I was thinking of buying this Flash Advance Linker but I wanted to know what it's like. I mean, on the site I found it they say it loads fast, does it really? And isn't there a limitation in the size of the rom you can load?
Thanks!

#14520 - malone - Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:23 pm

Hi Serian,

Are you talking about the Flash2Advance? Almost every flash card can load GBA ROMs very quickly for immediate play on the GBA. If you're talking about uploading ROMs to the card from the computer, the EZF-Advance is one of the faster cards out there.

Yes, flash cards have size limitations. The most common ones are 128Mb and 256Mb. There are a few GBA games that are 128Mb in size, which will fill up a 128Mbit card right away (just one game). 256Mbit is recommended in most cases.

On average, a 128Mbit cart can hold up to 2 games. A 256Mbit cart can hold up to 4 games.

I suggest reading the flash card reviews in detail on this site (gbadev.org) and at www.gameboy-advance.net. More than a few people already posted questions nearly identical to yours here, so try using the search feature.

#14555 - Serain - Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:33 pm

Thanks for responding ^^
But actualy I wasn't talking about the cards. I was talking about some cable that you plug in a USB port and that directly connects to the gba letting you play you're demos on the gba without using a card.

#14557 - Lord Graga - Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:18 pm

Serain wrote:
Thanks for responding ^^
But actualy I wasn't talking about the cards. I was talking about some cable that you plug in a USB port and that directly connects to the gba letting you play you're demos on the gba without using a card.
Flash2Advance does that.

It's reasonably fast, but you can only play specially compiled games on it, limited to a size of 256 Kbyte.

A nearly free alternative is the xboo cable.