There are two small improvements possible to your flow using those flash carts. 1. If you format the MicroSD and you ensure the OS files are the very first things added to the system the cart will find them first and boot up slightly faster, cutting down on the wait until you're in the menu. Smaller folders also load slightly faster so keep the amount of roms in the root folder light. 2. If you press Start you get a dialog to start the last played game, which you then accept with A to boot it. It's not instant-instant, but it's much faster than searching manually if you want to continue where you left. This also works if you overwrite the rom, which might be really useful if you want to quickly test multiple builds, just keep the file name and location the same. I do wish they would come with a setting that would allow them to directly boot into the last played game on start, but I'm guessing the timings don't work out well enough and the carts can't configure themselves fast enough before the boot logo is done, so that little delay will likely exist until they can have hardware that is much faster with the whole initializing stages. Also the EZ Flash Jr only really corrupts anything if the battery runs dry, or if you play some of the more involved romhacks that rely on a real time clock. That problem still hasn't been fixed by EZ Flash, and the Everdrives are more compatible there. Personally I'm quite happy with the Jr, apart from the lack of properly working RTC for some hacks and lack of Super Game Boy support. I eventually upgraded to the EverDrive GB X7 because of those issues (and the slightly better battery life), but then upgraded further to dedicated insideGadgets cart because I don't know what moderation means.

Insanely cool and very informative. Thank you so much for your hard work!!

I find the sound effects quite annoying/distracting

If you switch to the GB core then you can play it at normal speed but with no colors :(

HOW DOES THIS HAVE 70 VIEWS THIS IS SO WELL MAD

Thanks again for these breakdowns. Very informative.

I wonder what an original GameBoy's Bill of Materials would cost today.

2:06 Two cameras?! Production values 📈

Bravo! Very well explained and informative. Thanks a lot. Great job :)

Finally got my FPGBC kit and the battery was completely dead so of course it did nothing when I went to test it...plugged it in for a few hours and it works fine. Thought I had a dead board at first but no - just a dead battery. Anyway, I'm using the EZ-Flash Jr with it and very very few games seem to work from it. Mostly I just get frozen at a white screen when it tries to boot the game.

3d print file?

Man, I found a new thing to add to my never ending bucket list. 😭😭

Orrrrr you could just 3D print something like that for 50 cents instead of playing a Chinese factory ten times the amount

Metroid 2 front and center, I see everything is in order. I actually wanted this thing because it looked like a startrek TNG hardcase.

But the thing is most people use emulators and rarely own a game boy anymore because these have soared in terms of price

I used to have one of these! My brother had a matching one. Never had any accessories or too many games, but they always fit quite a few extra batteries and a small light for long road trips 😄

Where can i get this?

What are you protecting, the ground or the Gameboy

I too have bought a GameBoy flash cart for gameboy programming, specifically the EZ-Flash Jr. like the one you have! Very convenient & satisfying to see your program run, especially on real hardware!

How is this working out? I have heard some bad things about RetroSix products.

Great video but i am having a hard time with how they divided the ram up like what if a component needed more or less how would it change the start and end address of each

Saturn modders have figured out that you can use FRAM to avoid losing saves when batteries die. When will flash cart makers learn the same lesson?

I encountered a problem with my EZ flash Junior. Upon booting the cartridge, sometimes it would say that the battery is dry, however, when I would save a game sometimes the save would work. So I thought the logical sense that the battery was dry and I needed to replace it. Until I read the instructions that said sometimes that message will appear despite the battery's age. It says to continue forward anyways and then select backup save, but the problem is sometimes backing up the save does absolutely nothing and doesn't save the games from the ram. Or that the flash cartridge has problems booting up a save from the micro sd card. I found that saves can be corrupted and cause you not to be able to continue the game as normal, however, I have found no signs of a corrupted file since it doesn't even load the sav files from the saver folder... I'm considering sending this back and purchasing a flashable cartridge instead to play backed up games on.

Extraordinary as always. I can't get enough of this!

I was not prepared for you to start the video from the GameBoy, good stuff! As someone that got interested in computers in part because of the GameShark I was really happy to learn a bit more about that old memory map.

Sorting the games into folders like shooter, platformer etc really helps with this. I do use the random function to find games I've never heard of too. The save states I've been using on lemmings instead of having to bring a piece of paper with me to write the password.

Loved loved loved this. Just incredible content, obviously a ton of work to make a video like this and I appreciate it 🙌🏻

Awesome video!

Thx for the video, now it works oin my fpgbc but unfortunately not all games run.

Very nicely explained!

I also use the inside gadgets flash carts for game play and development. I have too many games so I like to focus on a few when I get the time to play.

What a fantastic thing this is to build your own console, I can see this sort of thing to be the best way of preserving retro gaming, Keep your original gameboys original, and go with this method for modding etc it also looks fantastic. Great job! I will be doing this and referencing this vid as I build it.

wait, you dont need to update anything and able to play after assembled?

Good to know that adjusting the speed control can help with some games. Probably would've taken me a while to figure out, so I'm very glad you made this video! Thanks

Will the flash carts work using a regular GBC?

Everdrives can load the last played game with the press of a button, so menu navigation and game selection is a non-issue.

where can i buy this?

I am more of a Geek Tech Premium FRAM Cartridge man with the Epilogue GB Operator. I used the Gameboy MOM Analyzer for Windows to change the cartridge type to 1EH and then fixed the header for Legend of the River King 2 and added Rumble so I can play with a Rumble controller. Oops that first M in MOM was supposed to be an R. My bad.

If you wanna good reproduction get Geek Tech Premium FRAM Cartridges. Pokémon Green English Translation sounds good. Go back to basics with the original. Epilogue GB Operator helps.

Battery in the og cart is upside-down

No wonder they’re so faulty..

thanks - very helpful - used this video to assemble my own FPGBC

Using a single game cart for each game can be an economic ruin. Perhaps the problem with fash cards is solved by creating a folder with your favorite games.

I updated the firmware on the ez flash but my im trying to load up pokemon crystal but it keeps saying error file what do i do? where did u get your roms?

"there's no menus to go through, just right into the game" uhh doesn't super mario bros have a menu when it starts? I think like 95% of cartridge-based console games start with menus. thumbs down, why was I recommended this?

Finding a game is hard and slow? You HAVE heard of subfolders, haven't you...? A to Z folders, and you're done. And how do you play homebrew games, that are only available as download? And what do you do while travelling? Take all your modules with you? No no no, BUY a gameboy flash cart!

The ez flash specifically consumes a lot of power. But one thing nice with a flash cart is that I dumped my Japanese "Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls" and applied a translation patch, now I get to play on original hardware!

Pretty weak arguments IMHO. Even if you collect, there are serious reasons to get one. If you cannot dedicate time to one game due to the large ROM collection, it is not the fault of the flash cart. Emulation is the same.

Huh, not unlike how my EZ Flash IV works! Just with better English lol

what do i do if i dont have another gb or gbc?