Where to Purchase an M3 Perfect

[scarper]

I'm looking into buying an M3 Perfect flash cart for GBA. I've perused google, but haven't really found a site that looks trustworthy.

[jp1]

You can get an EZ-Flash 4 from priceangels. I have ordered from them and they were pretty good.

http://priceangels.com/Video_Games_Game ... dtypeid=78

I'm not sure why you want M3 Perfect.

[Anapan]

I've read negative things about http://www.modchipstore.com tho there are many reports of successful purchases too, and people mentioned that they have new owners since most of those orders never arrived. If you decide to give them a try here's a coupon code for $5 off: "modchip"
I've seen some rare stuff requested and sold on the Tototek forums. You could try requesting one in their B/S/R section:
http://www.tototek.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=11

If you decide to try another cart instead, I can recommend http://www.0shippingzone.com http://www.gamersection.ca/ as I've ordered stuff from them. I heard good things about http://www.consolesource.com/ http://priceangels.com/ and http://www.realhotstuff.com/ too.

[gtmtnbiker]

If you use a credit card to buy the card, you can always file a chargeback if there's a problem (e.g, didn't get it delivered).

modchipstore.com seems to be the only place where you can buy it new. Another option is to post in the gbatemp.net B/S/T forum that you're interested in buying one. They turn up from time to time.

I bought mine from RealHotStuff about 2 years ago for $60.

[Anapan]

I thought my friend had one, so I called to ask him about it. It's the M3 Lite Micro SD with a pass 3 Slot 2 card. Apparently his is fully compatible as a stand alone GBA cart. From what I can gather it's the same hardware (or a bit newer) as the M3 Perfect you're looking for. It's the Pro carts that aren't compatible with older GBA stuff (outside a DS) I think he'd sell it for the price of a good NDS slot 2 cart (He likes my M3 DS Real bundle) since his is really a GBA cart and he already has a EZF.

Edit:
More information we dug up, the email Brandon sent and a picture of his cart:
Reviews of the M3 variants at the bottom of the page here:
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/M3_Adapter ... ro/Lite%29

Here's my M3 Lite. Tell him that it comes with several
replacement shells, too, including one that will fit in a GBA.
Picture Link

[gtmtnbiker]

The only reason to get an M3 Perfect is for the GBA. Otherwise, I would stick with a regular slot-1 card (Acekard 2 or CycloDS or M3 DS Real) and the slot-2 expansion pack.
The M3 Perfect Lite or M3 Perfect Pro can't be used with the GBA.

[scarper]

Holy crap!! That is a ton of useful information... This forum is awesome!!!

But yeah, I wanted to get this for my GBA SP. No plans to be using this one a DS. Figured the idea of having all of my game boy stuffs in one device would be real nice. On top of it all being free, and being part of the homebrew scene.

I looked at both the EZFlashIV and the M3 Perfect, and noticed that the M3Perfect has GB/GBC/NES/SMS/PCEngine Emulators built in. I understand that I could get emulators for all of those things with EZFlash, but this sounded slightly better. The flash cart would wind up being a great step toward my quest for simplicity. All of the great retro ports and rehashes made for gameboy, and all the NES games in one handheld.

I guess the only thing I'd be worried about now is compatability issues. Does one technically work better than the other, or is it really... PERFECT

Thanks for this guys.

EDIT: I suppose I'll probably be getting the EZFlashIV, now that this is a conflict of pricing and availability. So far, the only real bad thing I've read is bad NDS compatibility, which I won't really care about at all. Real time saving is also not an issue to me, since my Pokemon playing would probably still be done on actual copies.

[Jrecee]

Every time I see this brought up I think someone's on the wrong forum or something. . .

[D.D.D.]

Every time I see this brought up I think someone's on the wrong forum or something. . .

I'll take one. If it's an E30.

[Anapan]

Don't stop now. For 38 USD you can have the M3 you want (+ it's rare apparently). This will be a win-win situation. The M3 Real bundle Brandon would trade it for does all the DS home-brew in DLDI compatibility mode using the Slot 1 cart as a ram/rom host but the slot 1 cart is useless in a real GBA.
This would make Brandon's DS complete for his needs and you'd get a perfect GBA flash cart with forward compatibility to DS software if you ever needed it through the pass3 cart (this was the best DS option available at the time - fully compatible with all the current software, tho not as slick as the slot 2 DS options available now). Even I still use a lowly SuperCard Mini SD for my GBA home-brew loading (it's not bad at all unless you wanna play backup FPS titles or some other seemingly random cycle-intensive commercial games). The M3 Perfect& Perfect-lite is far beyond the Supercard's slow ram in regards to backup rom execution (hence the earlier "perfect" label).
Truthfully, the reason I use a Supercard is because except for a few GBA titles and It's TG16-US support (gotta make a compilation manually to play 'em) it's software is only a few releases out of date so it's built-in oldschool rom compatibility is quite adequate - it's slow as molasses on a GC-GB-Player tho. Also I was able to get them far cheaper than any competitors years ago so I bought them in bulk. M3's built-in emulator/rom compatibility may be better - I don't know cause I never got one - what I do know is that it's hardware is as fast as any backup can exploit. EZF4's built-in emulators are not adequately updated or non existent from what I I can remember when I looked it up long ago (someone correct me plz - they're cheap and readily available so I should prolly get one! - right? - Is my information a few years out of date? I don't have any current information on EZF's emus or compatibility... Someone in-the-know plz continue ranting...
^(Lol guess that drink Melssa gave me was potent... but yeah I'm tapped for info. Is there a current-gen readily-available GBA cart that bests the old-school ones I know about?)