Best GBA Flashcart as of 2019?

[supermist]

I still have a really old G6 which isn't ideal.

As far as I am aware, is Pokemon R/S/E the only game that requires real time clock? I'm also aware that those games have patches to bypass the need for it so I don't know if I really need to worry about that if it's significantly costlier to get a cart that supports RTC.

 

[machinoman]

I still have a really old G6 which isn't ideal.

As far as I am aware, is Pokemon R/S/E the only game that requires real time clock? I'm also aware that those games have patches to bypass the need for it so I don't know if I really need to worry about that if it's significantly costlier to get a cart that supports RTC.

I'd say EZFlash Omega, of the ones that are still on the market. Can't do RTC, but you can patch the Pokemon games, so it doesn't really matter. EverDrive GBA X5 is another option, but that is a bit of an investment to make just to avoid patching three Pokemon roms. Supercard is pretty cheap. I'm not sure what the catch is there, maybe someone else can explain.

 

[zfreeman]

Supercard's RAM is sometimes too slow to keep up with the game. It needs its respective software to patch the ROMs before playing. AP patches also need to be applied beforehand.

Supercard slowdown fix: https://gbatemp.net/threads/supercard-sd-100-games-speed.211517/

https://retrocomputing.stackexchang...ram-actually-do-to-gba-and-nds-roms-to-make-t

 

[supermist]

Oh yeah Mother 3 support would be something I need as well. I recall due to the file size it's a tricky one.

 

[supaplex]

Can't do RTC

Wait, what? I have EZ Flash Omega and it has RTC.

 

[machinoman]

Wait, what? I have EZ Flash Omega and it has RTC.

oh, word? oops. i must have been thinking of IV.

 

[Tac 21]

I had ezflash III for years it was awesome... but the software was trash

it went all "brick" on me and I still sold it fora good price... those were rare

 

[supermist]

I have the EZ Flash III as well but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be Windows 10 support for it.

Also Mother 3 didn't work on it.

 

[kuwanger]

I'd say it's a toss up between EZ IV/Reform and Omega. The former has battery backed SRAM so can have annoying "Dry Battery" issues, requires quick power cycling if you want to ensure saves are written to microsd (as long as you have a good battery, it shouldn't matter much), and has longer load times. The latter writes saves directly to microsd which risks corruption, for which I'm still rather hesitant because of the inconsistency of that corruption, but it has great load times (once a save is created) and it has a RTC if you're into that sort of thing.

Having said that, I've never used an EverDrive so can't really speak to how good/bad it is. I mean, if someone wants to send me a free review copy.. j/k