Worth: GBA Flash Advance Cart & Reader

[jasonbar]

[I debated putting this in B/S/T, but I guess this is more of a "what is it worth?" query than an "I'm selling this for sure" sale post...sorry if I chose porrly...]


Howdy-

Before I bore you with a lot of text, here are a whoooole lotta pictures: http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff97/infernolab/forsale/FlashAdvance/


I've got a Flash Advance Pro cart & reader & cable that I'm considering selling.

This lets you put GB, GBC, or GBA games onto a card for your GBA.  Tested working on an SP model & on an original GBA model.

I don't have a parallel port on my current computer, & I don't play the handhelds too often anymore, so I'm interested in selling the setup.

Everything worked when I last used it a few years ago.  The Linker power LED lights up w/ batteries inserted & when powerd on (see pic) & has no battery terminal corrosion, & the cart currently has Thunderbirds on it & plays fine.  As I recall, depending on the size of the games you put on the card, you can fit up to 4 games on the card at once & I recall a menu popping up on power-up when there's more than 1 game installed.


Package comes with: Flash Advance Pro Linker w/ box & manual & plastic insert & 2 floppy disks (I don't have a floppy drive anymore, so I can't verify what's on them); Flash Advance 128M cart with case & box; parallel cable.  Except for a little whitening on the corners of the Linker box, everything is in *superb* condition!



So, what's this stuff worth these days?


Thanks,
-Jason

[Ginsu Victim]

Flash Advance 128M? That's terrible. It's only enough to hold one 16MB game. Throw it on ebay at 99c with no reserve and hope for the best.

I have an EZ Flash III 2 Gig that holds close to 40 games depending on the size, plus a section that holds one 32MB (256M) game.

[opt2not]

I've got the same cart, they're not really worth much anymore.

One thing to note, these carts don't work with the DS slot-2 support, nor is it supported by the DS mod scene (R4, CycloDS, etc..) as a slot-2 loading device. Which is what people would probably want to be using this for.

I tried for a while to get GBA games running on my DS, because the screen is just soooo much brighter than the GBA SP. The games run for about 3 secs, looking beautiful, but then crashes.
 

I'm thinking about picking up a EZ 3in1...there are just too many good GBA games to let it go.

[opt2not]

GBA games run fine on my CycloDS SD - the one that's the ripoff of the SuperCard.

Without a slot 2 device?

I have that card too...with the latest firmware, but I haven't got any gba games to run off it...it keeps complaining that I don't have a supported Slot 2 device.


***Edit**  Oops, no I don't, I have the Evolution... durrrrrp!

[jasonbar]

Thanks for the info, guys.

-Jason

[Mario]

If some 'completist' collector type wants mine for $20 shipped, drop me a PM.

Otherwise go here:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25752

And get the same thing for eight bucks.

I have one of these, and use a 2GB card with it. Holds LOTS of games,. It plays GB and CGB games, too (but they have to be "packaged" into a GBA file.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2734

Mario

[pmc]

Just got a DSi for my kid. Which card do I get? The $13 AceKard 2i at DealExtreme?  I haven't bothered to do any homework on the subject and I don't even have plans to use it immediately. I'm pretty sure we can't load our GBA stuff on there, but that's OK because we have a GBA SP for that.

[Mario]

Just got a DSi for my kid. Which card do I get? The $13 AceKard 2i at DealExtreme?  I haven't bothered to do any homework on the subject and I don't even have plans to use it immediately. I'm pretty sure we can't load our GBA stuff on there, but that's OK because we have a GBA SP for that.

While I haven't tried this cart, I expect that it it's probably the same as many of the others and should be fine for your kids DSi. And while you won't be able to play GBA games, you will be able to play original B&W Gameboy and Gameboy Color games using the Lameboy emulator.

Mario

[pmc]

Perfect. Thank you Mario.

[northerngames]

TTDS with m3ds real gba pack

that would play ds and gba all off one SD card through the TTDS for less then $28.00 shipped I think it can do 32gb max but it may be more.

[Mario]

TTDS with m3ds real gba pack

that would play ds and gba all off one SD card through the TTDS for less then $28.00 shipped I think it can do 32gb max but it may be more.

But will it work with the DSi?

Mario

[northerngames]

yeah the regular is like $6.00 and the dsi version is like $8.00

The TTDS is the least expensive but does the same as the most expensive so there's no point in buying a expensive one becuase there is no difference becuase the TTDS is compatible with the parts that come in the more expensive kits like the M3DS Real GBA player.

The M3DS real gba pack also still holds the best results for performance like no lag sound skipping game compatibility etc.

[TheSlim]

If you can get $20 for it, that would be a good deal.

I cannot seem to get rid of my Supercard with 512 compact flash card and reader for any amount of money.