New EZ4 SDHC in house at GBAtemp

[KidIce]

http://www.3dsgamerworld.com/ez4-ezflash-iv-ezflash-4-sltt2-gba-card-for-gba-nds-ndsl-p-27.html

From the front page of ShopTemp.

 

[cracker]

You should use a regular miniSD card, SDHC cards are not compatible.

WTF? Must be remnants of the old EZ4 description.

 

[Technicmaster0]

Any Idea where I can find one of these new models everywhere i've looked only has the MiniSD model

There have been serveral links to shops in this discussion. Please just re-read the first page.

 

[Acidflare]

So the review is model black colored but all I see on re-seller pages is a blue cart not that it really matters a dark blue or black one will go good with a dark blue NDSL. i'm just confused as to what color the shell actually is now

http://www.3dsgamerworld.com/ez4-ezflash-iv-ezflash-4-sltt2-gba-card-for-gba-nds-ndsl-p-27.html

From the front page of ShopTemp.

I don't usually go to shoptemp I bought an R4i Gold 3DS RTS card + Sandisk 16GB Micro SDHC combo and the microsd card was bad wouldn't allow any more files after filling up to just over 9GB out of 13GB which was odd enough to me for a 16GB card and the re-seller wouldn't respond to my e-mail's after them telling me to reformat the card, wouldn't offer me a refund or exchange the memory card, the R4i card works great however, and that was my first and only experience for shoptemp kind of reluctant to buy from the sites listed there

 

[KidIce]

I don't usually go to shoptemp I bought an R4i Gold 3DS RTS card + Sandisk 16GB Micro SDHC combo and the microsd card was bad wouldn't allow any more files after filling up to just over 9GB out of 13GB which was odd enough to me for a 16GB card and the re-seller wouldn't respond to my e-mail's after them telling me to reformat the card, wouldn't offer me a refund or exchange the memory card, the R4i card works great however, and that was my first and only experience for shoptemp kind of reluctant to buy from the sites listed there

Because you think all the vendors listed there will do that? o.O

It's not a list of vendors that GBATemp knows to be shady. There are good and bad vendors on Amazon, eBay and any other marketplace. But OK.

 

[Acidflare]

Because you think all the vendors listed there will do that? o.O

It's not a list of vendors that GBATemp knows to be shady. There are good and bad vendors on Amazon, eBay and any other marketplace. But OK.

No I don't think all the vendors will do that. I do agree with you there are good and bad vendors on any marketplace, just having used a bad vendor on my first experience really throws me off it's just the kind of person I am

 

[Lou-GBA]

Any Idea where I can find one of these new models everywhere i've looked only has the MiniSD model

I think best price for microSD model is at chollomedia.es for 29.95eur, about 35usd after change.

They accept credit card payment and do worldwide shipping.

 

[The_Hulkster]

I think best price for microSD model is at chollomedia.es for 29.95eur, about 35usd after change.

They accept credit card payment and do worldwide shipping.

Too bad they won't ship until the 17th.
And then it will take 2 weeks within Europe and even longer outside of Europe.

Great price, bad shipping.

 

[kiryu1]

Good thing I didn't order EZflash IV last year, just pre-ordered the new cart.. Ordered from 3dsgamerworld.com are they good? I see that they used singpost, but I see that the status of my order is..

"Information Received (This is not an acknowledgment of the physical receipt of the stated Registered Article)"

..for a week now. Am I screwed or what..

 

[Metoroid0]

this is funny...i just bought an old model and now there is new one xD oh well, this one is also good

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

Any idea when the review will be out?

 

[FAST6191]

Afraid it is going to be one of those "when I get around to it" things as it will likely have to end up as a review and in depth guide to every quirk I know of.

Review wise there is not an awful lot to say though and I already have the pictures up for it.
It is an EZ4 as most would know it, just using microSD/microSDHC in a side loading spring slot. There is a new battery and the case is slightly thinner, neither detracts in any real way though (the battery is non rechargeable so you may have to replace it in a few years).
It does not have a DS loader and thus you can not use the DS ROM dumper, though some people were saying you might be able to crowbar it back in and I will have to test that.
All the games on http://gbatemp.net/threads/buying-a-gba-flash-cart-in-2013.341203/page-18#post-4756995 are still troubled the same and fixed the same (links should be there as well and nothing new has happened, save perhaps boktai but I linked the thread there anyway).
The loader defaults to soft reset so you probably want to learn the L and A combo to do a hard reset launch for those games that do not care for it. Likewise for cheats you are probably better of going with GBAATM and trainers.
You probably want to treat homebrew as you did for earlier EZ4 kernels. http://ezflash.sosuke.com/viewforum.php?f=12 covers that.
The EZ4client program is your typical bit of slightly wonky code you get with embedded devices like this, however if you speak to it nicely it will happily patch games all day long. You can probably even get it working with WINE but there are other SRAM patching options out there.
I am guessing as they moved to a nominally 512 Mbit NOR chip and soft locked it to 256 the every byte matters issue that troubled mother 3 on the last few batches should not apply any longer.
I have yet to test the pokemon pal park patch, as a ram expansion (be it patched opera browser or with DS homebrew) and as ever it is probably not going to do you much good if you want to link it up to gamecube games (it uses a certain type of SRAM where the two or three games that read the GBA game's save expect a certain type of flash or EEPROM).

It really is just an EZ4 with a microSD slot. It is basically the only standalone GBA flash cart worth considering unless you luck out and find a suitable old M3 that someone is selling or found at the back of a warehouse (unlikely), however that is OK as it is made well enough and plays basically every game without too much trauma. Everdrive did tease something but so far it was just a tease, equally I am not sure what they can do to take over like they had scope to do for all the other stuff they did. If it had appeared during the height of the GBA era then the removable memory would have been a treat but it would have otherwise been a solid, if unremarkable, flash cart.

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

Afraid it is going to be one of those "when I get around to it" things as it will likely have to end up as a review and in depth guide to every quirk I know of.

Review wise there is not an awful lot to say though and I already have the pictures up for it.
It is an EZ4 as most would know it, just using microSD/microSDHC in a side loading spring slot. There is a new battery and the case is slightly thinner, neither detracts in any real way though (the battery is non rechargeable so you may have to replace it in a few years).
It does not have a DS loader and thus you can not use the DS ROM dumper, though some people were saying you might be able to crowbar it back in and I will have to test that.
All the games on http://gbatemp.net/threads/buying-a-gba-flash-cart-in-2013.341203/page-18#post-4756995 are still troubled the same and fixed the same (links should be there as well and nothing new has happened, save perhaps boktai but I linked the thread there anyway).
The loader defaults to soft reset so you probably want to learn the L and A combo to do a hard reset launch for those games that do not care for it. Likewise for cheats you are probably better of going with GBAATM and trainers.
You probably want to treat homebrew as you did for earlier EZ4 kernels. http://ezflash.sosuke.com/viewforum.php?f=12 covers that.
The EZ4client program is your typical bit of slightly wonky code you get with embedded devices like this, however if you speak to it nicely it will happily patch games all day long. You can probably even get it working with WINE but there are other SRAM patching options out there.
I am guessing as they moved to a nominally 512 Mbit NOR chip and soft locked it to 256 the every byte matters issue that troubled mother 3 on the last few batches should not apply any longer.
I have yet to test the pokemon pal park patch, as a ram expansion (be it patched opera browser or with DS homebrew) and as ever it is probably not going to do you much good if you want to link it up to gamecube games (it uses a certain type of SRAM where the two or three games that read the GBA game's save expect a certain type of flash or EEPROM).

It really is just an EZ4 with a microSD slot. It is basically the only standalone GBA flash cart worth considering unless you luck out and find a suitable old M3 that someone is selling or found at the back of a warehouse (unlikely), however that is OK as it is made well enough and plays basically every game without too much trauma. Everdrive did tease something but so far it was just a tease, equally I am not sure what they can do to take over like they had scope to do for all the other stuff they did. If it had appeared during the height of the GBA era then the removable memory would have been a treat but it would have otherwise been a solid, if unremarkable, flash cart.

I see I have hoping there were some improvements over the old version such as drag and drop support. Thank you for your time.

 

[FAST6191]

Drag and drop is more of a hardware limitation -- there is no easy way to know on a GBA what your save type is (PC has the benefit of lots more memory and a far superior processor). There are some ways it could be worked around (savelist, user selection, waiting a minute or two to scan like some DS stuff) but PC patching program works and is easy enough so there was probably not a great need to go to that length.
I would like to see a properly thought through save emulation (as opposed to save patching like all known GBA flash carts employ) but for the most part other than DS games reading the GBA saves and gamecube games reading GBA saves (two very small lists of games on both counts), and possibly dodging the need for a SRAM battery, there is not a lot of reason to go down that path. I guess it would be possible to do drag and drag save patching but that really does seem like a lot of effort for no great gain (open rom(s), press send is hardly a difficult action).

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

I see I was unaware of the more technical story behind it. For the price it seems to do what it sets out to do well. Originally I had issues with it because of the miniSD card adapter keep going bad on me corrupting all my games; however now that is uses micro sd cards I may have to go ahead and pick this up and give it another try.

 

[Acidflare]

FAST6191 is it possible to use the palpark features with an EZ-Flash 3in1? I have a ruby save on the NOR i'm working on I just want to know if palpark is possible before I continue playing

 

[FAST6191]

Yeah you can use a 3 in 1, most things stem from the patches originally made for it. You just need a way to patch the DS game to read from the flash cart's SRAM. If you need it for an original cart (perhaps to send on to the pokebank) then you will probably have to dump the save off that (there should be options nowadays), run it on a patched ROM, do your pal park stuff and then export back to the original cart.

http://filetrip.net/nds-downloads/rom-hacks/download-pokepatch-4-2-f27240.html is the patching program for the DS games.

 

[Acidflare]

Okay sweet thank you, I was using GBAEXPloader before then I couldn't get ruby to boot so I tried the wood 1.64 kernel it works I just have to save twice. I tried palpark and my pokemone heartgold rom wouldn't pick up the ruby stored on the 3in1 NOR

 

[apoptygma]

Got mine today, works great! Even tested a couple of NOR-reliant games like SSF2TR. Just need a nice 1.75 kernel skin and I'm happy. That black nintendo one would be awesome. I might get time to build it with the EZPDA_1.7.5 program I just need to figure out the menus because it's all in chinese...

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

Got mine today, works great! Even tested a couple of NOR-reliant games like SSF2TR. Just need a nice 1.75 kernel skin and I'm happy. That black nintendo one would be awesome. I might get time to build it with the EZPDA_1.7.5 program I just need to figure out the menus because it's all in chinese...

There SHOULD be an english version at least there was when I last used it a few years ago.