#17476 - radjago - Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:07 am
http://nordicimport.com/import/magicUSB.htm
I've never seen anything about this flash cart. Does anyone know who makes it?
#17490 - ampz - Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:56 pm
Most of the product description text has been copied right off the F2AU website... Many of the descriptions are not even true for this "Magic USB" thing.
#17519 - Lupin - Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:19 pm
This appears dubiously to me...
I wouldn't buy it if no one would show me a positive review that i can rate reliably.
#22650 - Leo - Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:20 am
also may i know if it is good coz this is the only flash cart i can find in my country.
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#22737 - Leo - Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:14 am
sorry to post again but can i know if the gba magic is good?
pls help.
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#22741 - isildur - Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:34 pm
By what they show on their web site, they seem to advertise their flash cart for piracy purposes. In big it says "Get access to website with 2,800 roms!" I would not trust them.
#22748 - tepples - Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:15 pm
PDRoms.de may not have 2,800 ROMs (yet), but its respectable count of 1,877 (726 of them designed for GBA, and quite a few others compatible with GBA under emulation) is within the ballpark.
The GBA can't directly decode MP3 (yet). The "Play MP3s - Music" claim on the packaging seems to allude to things such as my recently updated GSM Player, right?
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#22753 - isildur - Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:30 pm
| tepples wrote: |
PDRoms.de may not have 2,800 ROMs (yet), but its respectable count of 1,877 (726 of them designed for GBA, and quite a few others compatible with GBA under emulation) is within the ballpark.
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At least, the roms at PDRoms are homebrew roms. In the example pictures on that Magic USB site, you clearly see commercial roms listed in there (Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter). That's why I thought they were encouraging piracy more than development.
#22757 - dagamer34 - Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:06 pm
| isildur wrote: |
| tepples wrote: | PDRoms.de may not have 2,800 ROMs (yet), but its respectable count of 1,877 (726 of them designed for GBA, and quite a few others compatible with GBA under emulation) is within the ballpark.
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At least, the roms at PDRoms are homebrew roms. In the example pictures on that Magic USB site, you clearly see commercial roms listed in there (Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter). That's why I thought they were encouraging piracy more than development. |
There aren't even that many commercial GBA games. Including all the foreign ones. Maybe they are including the NES games too?
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#22759 - ampz - Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:11 pm
Much of the text on their website is still copy-pasted from the F2AU website.. Very weird..
Question is, are they using a F2AU ASIC copy, or do they simply not know what they are talking about?
#22760 - SimonB - Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:16 pm
GBA Magic USB = EZ-Flash II = cheap copy of XG-Flash...or am I confused [I often am]
#22764 - dagamer34 - Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:39 pm
Yeah, you've got it right Simon.
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#22788 - ampz - Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:18 am
XG use a ASIC??
#24301 - Epyx911 - Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:41 am
Hi guys...I had a chinese co-worker buy this for me from an asian shopping mall. I bought the 256mbit version and I can honestly say it's not that bad...I haven't had any issues. I own several original games all of which run fine on the cart. Saves were a bit tricky to use at first because I didn't realize I had to back them up (to the carts sram) prior to running a new game or it would overwrite the save in memory.
I have had a couple of write failures which erases everything that was on the cart previously (cept for saves) but this after closing down TSRs and other programs and rebooting the flash program it would work fine.
I have tried it with Pokemon Saphire (daughter's game), Elite PD, Advance Wars 2, Metroid Fusion, Kirby in Dreamland and they all work fine.
I have also tested several of the emulators (DRM Sms, PocketNES and ZX Advance ) and the cart has performed marvelously.
So to summarize if you can find this cheaper than the more popular ones I certainly wouldn't have any trouble recommending it to you. Have owned it for a little over a month now and no major issues at all.