Q: What happens when you don't do yer study before doshing out a
wad of money on expensive electronics?
A: You end up wasting money and buying a load of crap just like I did with
the
Flash2Advance
Ultra 512.
One owns one of these carts for the
Gameboy
Advance for all the good reasons
I state in my review of the
EZFA (which you can find in an earlier blogg
entry) - I wanted more memory - so based on the popularity of the
Flash2Advance(known as
F2A) I paid 18000 yen for this piece of shit - and had to buy
the
Linker (the USB cable which links your
Gameboy Advance to your PC)
separately for 3900 yen.
This has to be the worst 'gadget' I have had the displeasure of buying
and I am going to lace this review with enough
SEO (Search
Engine Optimization) so that people thinking of buying
F2A can read about
it when they do a Google.
Here are all the reasons why you should not splash out your hard earned
cash on
F2A.
Its
expensive.
The software client provided does not tell you what software you have on the
cart! Thus each time you want to add new games, you have to erase the
entire cart. But wait! There is no functionality which allows you to
erase games OMG! You have to create a 'dummy' file which is equivalent
to the size of the cart and then burn it to the cart to erase all the
previous games - and then re flash the cart with games which you want
on the cart.
The loader (pictured here) looks like it was put together by somebody who really
wanted to take the piss out of some poor bastard who was unfortunate
to buy one of these carts - just take a look at it! What the @#!$ are
those icons!
The two buttons on the cart are supposed to provide some sort of cheat functionality
- but it does none of that instead they stick out of the cart by about
2mm and means that you cant rest your Gameboy on a flat surface. the
buttons are plastic and not rubber meaning that they also dig into
your fingers.
As with any cart - you cant return it without spending 50 hours trying to prove
that its faulty - I don't know if my cart is faulty or if its supposed
to be like that. After reading a ton of complaints about F2A, I am
lead to believe that its they way they made it.
So there you have it - if you are ready to waste your money then get this.
