How Flash Advance Linker & Card work

This is a general description that works for all types of linkers & cartridges. The software that you have to use may be different, but the basic operations are the same.

1. First You have to install FlashWriter Drivers, than Software
You can install:

• Little Writer (the best writer software with most features)
  supports:
  - All Visoly Cards (Turbo, PRO, Xtreme) 64 Mb, 128 Mb, 256 Mb
  - EZ-card 128 Mb, 256 Mb (EZ-Flash), XG-flash 2 128 Mb, 256 Mb
• Flash Advance Writer 3.2
  supports:
  - Visoly Cards (Turbo, PRO) 64 Mb, 128 Mb, 256 Mb
• XtremeLink (USB)
  supports:
  - All Visoly Cards (Turbo, PRO, Xtreme) 64 Mb, 128 Mb, 256 Mb
• XG-Writer (USB)
  supports:
  - XG-flash 128 Mb, 256 Mb
• Flash 2 Advance Writer
  supports:
  - Flash2Avance cards 64 Mb, 128 Mb, 256 Mb
  
•  More FlashLinker software

2. Connect FlashLinker to the PC USB or Parallel (Printer) port.

Xtreme linker can be connected to USB or Printer port, EZF Advance, XG-Flash and (EZ-flash) to USB, Flash2Advance linker and FA Pro Linker to LPT

3. Insert the Flash Card into the Linker

Inset the ReWritable Flash Card in the linker and only than turn the linker ON. For EZF Advance and F2A Linker cables you have yo insert the cart into the Game Boy and turn it on.

4. Open the FlashWriter Software

Double click on the linker icon to open the Flash Advance Writer/Manager software

Click on the image to see a larger screenshot

5. Select GBA roms to be written to the GBA Flash Card

Drag-and-drop the GBA roms that you want to write to the cartridge into the LittleWriter window or select the roms from open/add roms menu.

Most of GBAvance games are 32M or 64M big but some games that use rich graphics, music and long movies in them are up to 128M big!

6. Write GBA roms to the Flash Cartridge

Click the [Flash] or [Burn] button - depending on the software you are using.

7. Put the Flash Card in GAMEBOY and PLAY!

If you have written more than 1 gba rom to the card when you turn on your GameBoy you will be presented with a boot menu. In the menu you will see names of all the games/ software/ demos you have on the card. With the D-pad select the game to you want to play and hit [A] or [Start]. Gameboy will restart and lunch the game you selected!

The type of GBA ROM / game selection menu you will see when you turn on your Gameboy depends on the software you use for writing the roms and also you get a different menu if you use the Flash Card to play GB/GBC roms on the old GAMEBOY or GB COLOR - the menu will be black and white, when as menu used for GBA/GBASP can use true color!

Click here to see some of the boot menus used in FA Cards

The things you can do with GBA Flash Card

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• R4 3DS - the official R4i Gold SDHC website.
• 3DS Emulator - PC Windows 7 & Vista, Android and for Mac OSX
• AceKard 3 - cheap 3DS compatible alternative cart.
• R4 3DS Mod-Chip - Jailbreak and Unlock N3DS.
• NDS ROMs - Nintendo DS Roms, 3DS ROM files and emulators for classic consoles.