There's conflicting info online.
What is the best GBA flash cart and why?
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There's conflicting info online. What is the best GBA flash cart and why?
Whichever one costs me the least amount of money, flashcarts are poorgay aftermarket items.
Imagine having to carry several cartridges with your portable game system.
That's what a carrying case is for. Or do you carry it on your pocket like a neanderthal with anencephaly
If ANYTHING was made for digital software loading it's handheld game systems.
I think the EZ Flash seems better overall, the power usage is seemingly it's biggest flaw but I primarily want to use it in a GB Player
elaborate on this anon
i never seemed to have any issues
i used my older easyflash IV with a busted case on my GBmicro & gb player with no issues
also on a ips modded gba
i had the everdrive gba and everdrivegb as well never seemed to notice any issues
all i did was launch games and play them
however for shit like pokemonzelda longsave progression games i always used real carts
i would say just get whatever "base" model is available with closest shipping under $100
for my own use case; (chiptune music)
i was happy enough with my ems64mbs and everdrive gb
if i want to play gba roms i can just load them on my pocket
>elaborate on this
It uses power faster than an Everdrive, what else is there to say? You get more battery life by using an Everdrive.
here's a battery test using a gba micro
>no Definitive Edition
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This is accurate except you don't have to press A. Or at least it doesn't prompt you to press.it on the alternate menu for the DE anyway. There is a popup screen after boot that says it is saving, but it disappears on its own. I would like to add that it disappears way too soon because turning it off immediately after the screen disappears might still wipe your save.
I wish you could just enable something that would make it not do that shit, like save a backup before overwriting. Those save files are worth a lot more to me than an extra 64kb of space being taken up in current century.
Dude your GBA battery is just shit, those things die with time
>theres a variance in battery life cause the battery is shit
bro alot of you are really stupid.
wrong version there anon
Whatever you do, don't give any money to krikzz
How come? I haven't had issues with with other EverDrives that I purchased.
He purposely makes his products scarce in order to drive the prices up.
Krikzz isn't terraonion
Everdrive is the better flash drive
Why?
The EZ Flash Omega Definitive Edition Revision B is the best one.
Revision A had worse power consumption than the Everdrive GBA Mini, which gave it an advantage. But due to the chip shortage a few years ago, they switched to Rev B which reduced power consumption. Now the EZ Flash is cheaper, has more features, and offers more hours of battery life.
What are the drawbacks of the EZ Flash?
You're mostly limited to buying from chinks on AliExpress these days, so there is a worse customer experience.
There were legitimate problems with older carts like the original Omega's save bug which contributes to EZ Flash's poorer reputation, but they're solved with the newer Definitive Edition.
>AliExpress
I've never bought anything from AliExpress, I assumed that was a guaranteed way to get ripped off.
AliExpress does have good buyer protections. I buy there regularly and am able to get refunds when I have to. I know because I have been chinked before. Every flashcart I have bought has been fine though.
Can you link me to a Flashcart you would trust buying from there?
High positive feedback and good user reviews are what you're looking for.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005078327248.html
You could also check ebay, chinese sellers pop up there frequently and you have similar buyer protections. eBay always sides with the buyer, even when it comes to items which break Ts&Cs.
I have the everdrive and it has basically no features besides that it just works. It also emulates GB and nes games but whoopty doo who gives a shit
EZ Flash Omega DE is better for having better game compatibility and more features. Rumble, cheats, savestates, ram expansion, NOR flash, or you can just turn all that shit off and play like a regular flash cart. Only thing I wish it could do is gyro games. It does have a lot of emulators working if you use the alternate menu.
Here are the downsides:
>higher power use of debatable significance
>chink scammers on official dealer list, you may as well just buy from Amazon so you can dispute if you need to
>it still fricking erases saves if you turn it off too soon after turning it on, be careful
>it still fricking erases saves if you turn it off too soon after turning it on, be careful
This is the first I've heard of this, why is this a thing?
When you save a game and turn off the GBA, it doesn’t actually save to the SD card until you turn the GBA on again and hit A to confirm the save, so if you turn it off before you do that it won’t actually save
I went with the everdrive, since my other everdrives are great and I was wary of power consumption.
Downside is no savestates or cheats. But I just patch the games with cheats when I want them.
Krikizz posts on /vr/ sometimes to try to sucker people into paying for his marked up and often artificially scarified Everdrives. That alone is a good enough reason to avoid the product. EZ Flash is cheaper, better and you're not paying the Apple tax for a brand name.
oh look, it's that one resident schizo
if EZ Flash was as good or better than the Everdrive, at a lower price, then you'd have an argument. But it's not, so you don't.
Having your country get wiped off the map is a pretty decent reason to slow down production for less than a year. He even still did the fricking Christmas discount
>inb4 discount is proof it was marked up too high in the first place
EZ Omega DE is better than ED for GBA, but there isn't dick to compete with ED for any other console, unless you count the chinks using his leftovers or the two consoles with the even more expensive terraonion cancer.
>Having your country get wiped off the map is a pretty decent reason to slow down production for less than a year. He even still did the fricking Christmas discount
It was happening before the Ukraine disagreement.
I think the ezflash has the benefit of storing saves in flash memory as well
EZ Flash DE. Has more features than the Krikzz, has rumble, DS rumble, all at a cheaper price. No need to get the overpriced version with way less features.
The ED has the benefit of less battery usage
>The ED has the benefit of less battery usage
Not true. ED only has better battery usage against one iteration of the EZ Flash.
No, it has better battery than both
not many people like having to switch batteries more often
>No, it has better battery than both
There are more than two iterations of the EZ Flash Omega, Anon. Of the 3-4 that exist, the Everdrive only beats one specific model when it comes to drawing less power.
No anon, that is not true
there are revisions sure but ED is better than them, even the DE versions
>there are revisions sure but ED is better than them
Prove it
260ma draw when not using rumble vs 240ma draw
That's not proved anything. Post proof.
Not him but here's a battery test from 2022 where the Everdrive lasted almost 5 hours longer than the Omega DE
>one of the test systems crashes after an hour, meaning they're no longer running the same content
>"lol not sure if that affected anything oh well >_<"
The kind of highly scientific and valuable "evidence" you come to expect from the Everdrive shill army.
he should have redone the test but that was a handicap in favor of the EZ Flash. it wasn't doing anything and just had the screen on while the everdrive was running F-Zero all night
>that was a handicap in favor of the EZ Flash. it wasn't doing anything
You have absolutely no idea whether that's the case or not. It may have been infinitely executing an instruction upon crashing, which isn't an uncommon fail state, and as such working the hardware (and thus battery) harder than running the game normally. Your test is a failure. Your shill campaign is a failure. You are a failure. Come back with some ACTUAL evidence in a like for like test or... actually, just frick off. Everybody here knows what you're doing.
let me guess, american education?
hate it when mom won't buy me more batteries until I finish my chores
Who cares. It's worth it for more features.
I use a DE, I'm just stating what some people may want to know
there are people that hate products because they cost more money
Oh okay. That's fine then. I wouldn't really be bothered by how much battery a flashcart consumes, but it is something some people might be bothered about.
My gba has what feels like an infinite battery. And the everdrive gba mini is one of the worst everdrives I own. So I'm thinking about trying the alternative option and throwing the loser away
What a terrible thread