Flashcarts

Flashcart is the term given to devices that can have ROM game backups written to them, then plugged into into a game console to play. This can be useful to play especially rare games on the original hardware, without having to pay for expensive collectible cartridges. Usually a flash memory section or a flash memory card is used to hold the data: hence the name Flashcart.

There are flashcarts for all sorts of devices from very old devices such as early commodore "personal computers" through the SNES and Genesis/Megadrive right up to the N64 and GBA and DS.

For more info, read about the History of the Flashcart.

Game Boy Advance

EZ-Flash

The last GBA Flashcart still in production. Uses a microSD. Since the original wiki is disused and falling apart, we have imported it's data into here.

EZ Flash V

Designed for the Nintendo DS Lite, the best way to play GBA and DS games around.

SNES

Flashcarts on SNES can be a tough and expensive proposition depending on the game you want to play, since some SNES games use special accelerator chips such as the SA-1 and the SuperFX, which can only be simulated through FPGAs.

• SD2SNES $200 - Contains an FPGA allowing you to simulate some accelerator chips with high accuracy. Of course, this makes it cost $200, but that may cost less than most of those rare cartridges.

Custom Made

If you're cheap and handy with electrical engineering, you can create your own flashcart by hacking shovelware games that have the accelerator chips you need.