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OffTopic > Pogoshell and EZF Advance

#15539 - shadowfox44 - Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:46 am

Im using a EXF advance 256 cart. And im wondering what exatly do have to do for it work? I looked on different sites and all but it dosent really tell you and in the flash program there isnt any option for something like that. And i was also wondering that in all these pics they show of flash carts they got like 9 GBA games (and yes they were 8megs-16meg games) on it when it can only hold like 4 depending on size.

#15549 - dagamer34 - Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:51 pm

Go to this site, switch to English in the top right-hand corner. Then click on the forums.

Look for a topic that has 8000+ views. Its posted by MadBob.

It has some instructions there. PogoShell with EZF-Advance isn't fully supported but most EZF-A people don't use it. There really isn't a need for it.

www.gba-toys.com

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#15550 - tepples - Sat Jan 24, 2004 6:55 pm

shadowfox44 wrote:
Im using a EXF advance 256 cart [...] And i was also wondering that in all these pics they show of flash carts they got like 9 GBA games (and yes they were 8megs-16meg games) on it when it can only hold like 4 depending on size.

Three reasons:
  • Some GBA games such as Tetris Worlds, Mario Kart Super Circuit, and the Super Mario Advance series are only 32 Mbits. Did you mis-remember the Mbit size of one of your Game Paks or overdump it?
  • Some 64 Mbit games are actually a bit smaller; flash carts can usually deal efficiently with games that end in several Mbits of repeated 0xFF or 0x00 such as the first Castlevania for GBA, which is actually only about 52 Mbit. I learned of this when trying to rip sounds from ROMs in an audio editor.
  • There exist 512 Mbit and 1 Gbit flash carts.

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