• Gameboy Flash Cartridge

Game Boy Advance flash cartridge A Game Boy Advance flash cartridge is one of several containing flash memory that have been developed for use in the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. These cartridges enable applications and games to be used on a GBA.

The capacity of the cartridges ranges from 64 up to 8 (Commercial carts range from 32 Mbit to 256 Mbit). Sizes of cartridges are always measured in megabits or gigabits as opposed to megabytes and gigabytes.

Fact date=November 2007 More recent cartridges use external memory cards as memory, in place of onboard memory, such as Compact Flash, Secure Digital, etc. Memory cards.

Gameboy Flash Cartridge

These cartridges remain the best-known way to create and distribute games for the GBA (the other being the GBA Movie Player, which can run specially designed homebrew programs but cannot run illicit copies of commercial GBA Game cartridges due to the lack of onboard RAM for fast data access). Linkers Games are written to the cartridge with a device called 'linker'. Depending on the brand of flash cartridge, the linker either connects to the GBA's serial link port and writes to the cartridge through the GBA or connects to a mini- USB slot on the cartridge itself and writes directly to the flash cartridge. These linkers usually connect to a through a USB or parallel plug on the other end.