A Game Boy Advance flash cartridge is one of several cartridges containing flash memory that have been developed for use in the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. These cartridges enable homebrew applications and games to be used on a GBA. The capacity of the cartridges ranges from 64 Mbit up to 8 Gbit (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. More recent cartridges use external memory cards as memory, in place of onboard memory, such as Compact Flash, Secure Digital, etc. memory cards.
These cartridges remain the best-known way to create and distribute homebrew 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).
Read more about Game Boy Advance Flash Cartridge: Linkers, Flash Card Adapters, Software, Other Flash Carts, Legality
Famous quotes containing the words game, boy, advance and/or flash:
“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art ... is merely romantic fiction.... The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)
“It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:18.