There is
so much more to flash cards than just free games and backuping
roms to PC! No doubt games is why we get the GameBoy in the first
place, but why
limit it - your GBA can do a lot more with a little help from
XG, EZF Advance, F2A or Wise Card!
Note: Most of the emulators / roms / applications work on all types
of flash cards, but there are some exceptions, like Pogo Shell will
not work on the WiseBox - the rest of apps work ok!
GBA ROMS
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Without a doubt the most important purpose for
having a gba flash card is the ability to play freeware and
backuped commercial gba roms. You have access to literary thousands
of free games
on the net.
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NES ROMS
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If GBA roms isn't enough than hear this - you can perfectly
emulate 8bit Nintendo Entertainment System games that is NES
roms on you Advance or GBA SP |
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SNES
ROMS
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Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES
roms) emulator
for GBA called PocketSNES is capable of emulating
a handful of snes game roms at full speed. No sound and the
screen is unscaled but it is being worked on. |
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GBC ROMS
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GB and GBC games can be emulated meaning that you can write
gb and gbc roms to the cartridge an play on GBA. You can even
play old black and white games with colors. Flash2Advance,
F2A USB, FA Xtreme Pro and Turbo cards are backward compatible
with
GB/GBC consoles. Can use the above listed
flash cartridges both in the new Advance and old Color Game
Boy, but for that you need GB-Bridge adapter, that makes the
cartridge fit in GBC & GB b/w.
(remember - gbc game cartridges
were taller!) |
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Classic Console
Roms
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Now not to surprise you but yep - its not only nintendo games
that can be played/emulated on GBA. There are 3 emulators that
let you play Spectrum Z80 roms, 2 for SEGA Master System SMS
roms, 1 for PC Engine / Turbo GraFX, GB, GBC, Arcade, Atari
2600 and Chip8 roms, Asteroids!
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E-Books
/ .txt
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You can create your own gba e-books with pictures
and even sound or read regular PC .txt files.
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Movie files
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Finaly
you can encode MPG, MPEG and AVI movie files to be played
on GBA! All Flash Cards and Linkers are suppored. There are
some sample movies demonstrating what cone be done but I suggest
you go ehead and make your own gba movies!
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Music/MP3
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There are music players for Flash Cards that
merge MP3 files in a format that can be played on GBA
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Photo
JPG, BMP
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Make your own photo albums with transition and
special FX to show to your friends or just to keep your favorite
photos always with you. PogoShell has plug ins that support
direct viewing of JPG and BMP image files on the flash card!
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GBA OS
Pogo Shell
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PoGo Shell for GBA is something similar to Windows
for PC. It lets you install programs in the form of plug-ins
that will enable you to write NES, Z80, TXT, MIDI, JPG and
other files to the flash card and launch them inside Gameboy
with the appropriate application. Something like turning GB
into a PDA. Other features include SaveGame management - save
more game save files on one cartridge by compressing the files
and auto extracting when you load the GBA rom to play.
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so on... |
Other programs that you can use with Flash equipped
Gameboy include Advance CALCULATOR,
drawing application similar to Mario
Paint, Notebook / Calendar
and loads of PD
demo roms 
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If Nintendo didn't mean to make GAMEBOY open source that
Flash Advance Cards certainly did. Run any 3rd party
code on gba without any modifications of risk of damaging
the system. Before you take out the flash card all the
information is saved on it and erased from the GBA VRAM
memory so nobody can see if you used it or not.
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So
what can I do with a flash card?