What systems are flash carts available for?

Post by **pixelbender** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:21 pm

Hey guys and gals, I'm looking for some flashcarts. I'm currently interested (aka I'd like to buy soon if possible) in one for GBA (for a gameboy micro), as well as NES and SNES mainly. However, I'd also like to know if any are available for Genesis and N64.

What are everyone's experiences with any types of flashcarts? I want to have the ability to sit down and play some NES and SNES for 15 mins here and there, but its sooo much more convenient to download ROMs then to track down carts, and I'd rather use the original hardware.

Discuss...

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:28 pm

One for the NES was released a couple months ago, still has to achieve full compatibility. There are also zip drives for the N64, but they cost a few hundred dollars

Post by **pixelbender** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:48 pm

Pullmyfinger wrote:One for the NES was released a couple months ago, still has to achieve full compatibility. There are also zip drives for the N64, but they cost a few hundred dollars

Yeah I've read about the retrozone one. There was one a while back on here that was blue and he was supposed to start selling dev kits or something... what happened?

Anything available for those systems that is financially feasible?

Post by **Perseid** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:20 pm

Some sort of floppy adaptor exist(ed) for the SNES, too. I don't remember much about it but I remember wanting one bad but they were insanely expensive.

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:26 pm

They were called Pro Fighter Q

Post by **turkey** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:45 am

here is a link to a very good site on the subject with loads of actual devices listed (as there are quite a few for each console) with data on each unit. I personally have a unmarked snes something i got from a carboot for £20 but never tested it (tisk tisk), I have used a cd based one for the n64 that was pretty cool when I was at uni I would like to get one of thoes as floppys seem a poor option to me as you cant have multiple games on one disk, and I am just lazy and the load times are not great.

This guy also has some for sale should anyone be interested, but he is UK based :p

http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/backup/

Post by **fuctfuct** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:39 pm

There are flash carts for the SNES, GEN and i think the TG-16. The SNES one kinda sucks because it doesn't support any of the special chips included in some carts (Last time I looked). Trying to find the site now.

EDIT: http://www.tototek.com/ & http://www.gbax.com/new/retrohack.html .. looks like GG and SMS to

Post by **fuctfuct** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:44 pm

I forgot to mention that the best, cheapest and easiest to find cart for the GBA is the EZ4 (IMO)

Heres some pics of mine. It's got a 1GB MiniSD card in there so you can have a ton of games.

And some pics of one in a Micro