I don't know why, but I always forget that those newer carts exist. Thanks for reminding me!Rockman GFF said:http://smartboy.ugu.pl/index.html
Email and request one. They cost $50 with Free Shipping. Paypal is accepted.
I still don't trust bleepbloops. After going incommunicado for over a year the seller/creator, Jose Torres, finally gets back to me and sends me two carts, but they're not usb like the one I bought. Now I have two carts and no programmer. :/Takeshi said:BleepBloob's cartridge was sold at nonfinite electronics I think they're reliable. Sometimes there are carts on sale at 8bitcollective too.
I find that the program doesn't always work/stay connected to the USB programmer. It takes me 2-3 attempts to usually program it, sometimes more.DjoeN said:I have a smartboy and it works great under Windows7 x64, no drivers needed, just the software to write/read tot/from the cart.
I don't think this is going to happen except as a homemade cart. It just doesn't make economic sense since there's plenty of people willing to use the emulators on DS and PSP systems. That doesn't even cover cell phones and laptops. Sigh, but we can dream... What I can see being practical is making an SD adapter for the link port using a cheap microcontroller. Then 'just' make a loader(firmware) for the existing flash carts and firmware for the microcontroller. The major advantage to this is that it takes very little soldering skills. The hardest part to solder is the SD Card slot. The major disadvantage is that it would be "SD" SLOOOOOOOWWWW!!I found this page which lists the carts that actually are modern, so that 1) you may still be able to find one for sale, and 2) they run on USB, so you don't need an old PC with a parallel port. http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/1277/ems...s-info-request/ All these carts have already been mentioned here and they all have various disadvantages.
I'm hoping that somehow, someday, someone will make a modern SD card-based GB/GBC flash cart.
To bad these SD slot GB carts never happened. I love playing on original hardware.
http://gbatemp.net/t190927-new-gameboy-flash-cart
^^ This thing is old news. The new cart to rule all carts is about to hit the scene Drag'n'Derp
^^ This thing is old news. The new cart to rule all carts is about to hit the scene Drag'n'Derp
Features:
- 24MBit (3MByte) flash ROM
- 1MBit (128KByte) Ferroelectric RAM
Instead of battery-backed SRAM, the cart uses F-RAM, which maintains its contents in the absence of power, and has a data retention span on the order of a hundred years.- USB mass storage emulation
The cart appears similar to a thumb drive, allowing ROM and RAM contents to be copied via drag and drop. No drivers are required, and supports all USB-capable platforms.
I have a gb bridve and three 256mb f2a carts...