Hacking Just curious, but where did everyone hear about these flashcarts?

[helpme]

i bought a cart for my GB/C & never got anything else until the NDS came out then i got a SCCF & a passme by lynx

then joined scdev then gbatemp

here a pic of the GB/C cart i ownd

 

[Tikker]

I was going to try and engineer a mame emulator to put onto a sega nomad when I discovered GBA flash carts

thought screw it, picked up a gba, and went from there

 

[Arsic]

Word of mouth since the PS1 era. You kind of keep an eye out for alternative methods while browsing the internet.

 

[Urza]

I had an EZFA about 5 years ago... but for the life of me I can't remember how I heard about flashcarts.

 

[Ferrariman]

An ad on IGN's website lol.

Lol jk, but I first heard for flashcarts about the time GBA was still around, so maybe 4 years ago, when they were still like 120$ or something. I was just looking for some cheap alternative to buying games, knew about roms and emulators since '97? Main reason I got one for the DS though is because I bought Lunar Dragon Song used, and it was horrible, and I didn't want to go through and buy crappy games again. I still go and buy games I really like right now, but it's really niffty being able to try a game before you buy it. If Nintendo probably had demos for literally every game to come out, then I probably would have never even bothered buying a flashcart. Maybe I would so I didnt carry around like 30 games, but it was the demo thing what I was really looking for.

Sponsored Links? What has happened to IGN?

 

[da_head]

Sponsored Links? What has happened to IGN?

didn't he say "lol jk"? as in he edited this pic?

 

[BakuFunn]

No, he meant he didnt find out on ign.

 

[perkele]

Then PS1 (learnt to chip those myself - made a huge buck doing it)
Then DC (Ditto)

DC didn't even need a modchip.

I found out about flash cards when I was looking for pr0n.

 

[Sticks]

Heard from friends. Saw them playing around with R4's one day, I was hooked. I shuffled over to ozmodchips.com, then luckily saw their little comparison with the CycloDS. Needless to say, a few weeks later after some research my Cyclo came to my door, express mail.

 

[cracker]

My 'first time' was when I got a GBC cart on ebay. It was similar to the GB Backup Station but it was definitely a cheap wannabe cart. It died on me after a month or so of usage. But then I shelled out for a GBX+Mr Flash 64M and I've had it eversince. And then onto N64, GBA, DS and of course PS1, etc before and after the cartbased systems...

I've known about flashcarts since I saw an SNES backup device advertised in the back pages of EGM when I was a kid. I never bought a flashcart until I got a DS Lite, though my friend had a GBA flashcart so I knew they were easily available.

I found GBAtemp because of the G6 Lite reviews, which I found via Google while researching which cart to buy.

Are you sure they were actually for backing up and running games? I remember ads in various magazines in the SNES' day that were able to backup and restore save states to a floppy disk and were also termed 'backup units/devices".

QUOTE(Fission @ Apr 26 2008, 05:00 AM) I got fed up of buying crap games which supposedly got great reviews.

Hence my decision to 'do the pirate'

Starting with the NES many moons ago (had a little switch on the front)
Then the SNES - with a similar switch
Then PS1 (learnt to chip those myself - made a huge buck doing it)
Then DC (Ditto)
GBA Flashcard was bought 2 years ago
CycloDS this year
PSP with all the trimmings a few weeks ago

Don't intend to mod Cube/Wii/PS2.

DC? Apparently the people didn't realize that no chip is required...