GBA Everdrive Prototype Finished, into testing now.

[Tanooki]

Pulled this from reddit, goes back to a twitter account with an image.


Can not wait, love to know a price point on this vs the ez-flash iv.

[Ziggy]

Looks like it's a little taller than a GBA cart. Although, that IS just the prototype.

[samsonlonghair]

Reminds me of a GBColor cartridge.

[fastbilly1]

Whats the estimate on the price, $99ish?

[Ziggy]

Whats the estimate on the price, $99ish?

I would expect it to be closer to the GB price, which is $88 in Krikzz's store.

[fastbilly1]

Hmm, might have to kit out an original GBA now.

[Tanooki]

Shell to me looks like a copy molding of the Drill Dozer cart except it's transparent. I think that's not a problem at all. I'd rather it stick out and use high quality parts with a rugged shell, solid chips and board. I've had a couple EZ-Flash IVs over the years and they're super cheaply built and the frames of them are easy to compress flimsy garbage. One of them (1st) wasn't even cut well so I had to use tweezers to dig out the mini memory card in there just to update it which sucked.

That thing stays at $100 or under I'd buy it. I'd like to have my entire GB collection portable on the go in my GBA using Goomba and I do miss PocketNES as well. Also PCE Advance was pretty badass when I threw Dracula X and Ys Book1+2 on it in ISO format when I owned those discs in the past.

[MrPopo]

Aren't GBA flash carts old news? Or does the Everdrive brand mean something extra? I've got a GBA flash cart I got 6ish years ago (and it was a few years old then) which came with two shells, one for full sized GBA and a thin one that was flush in a DS Lite.

[Sarge]

I'm sure the attraction here is that you can load straight from SD, as opposed to the older cards that required a linker to a PC to flash with a small set of games.

But no, it's definitely not the first cart out there, and there's the EZFlash line of products, one of which I believe also loads from microSD cards. Then you've got the ones that can utilize a DS to flash them, like the 3-in-1 expansion carts.

[MrPopo]

I'm sure the attraction here is that you can load straight from SD, as opposed to the older cards that required a linker to a PC to flash with a small set of games.

But no, it's definitely not the first cart out there, and there's the EZFlash line of products, one of which I believe also loads from microSD cards. Then you've got the ones that can utilize a DS to flash them, like the 3-in-1 expansion carts.

Yeah, I've got the EZFlash and it's microSD. I suppose the main thing that would be nice on it would be a port to either easily get at the microSD or a USB connector port so I don't have to open the shell when I want to flash games.