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KnifeMissile · 08-26-2004, 11:40 AM

I'm trying to do some real honest-to-goodness GameboyAdvance development on my GameboyAdvance (instead of just running it on an emulator) and I can't get the Flash2Advance cartridge drivers to not BSOD on me.

I've gotten it to work on an XP machine at work so I thought it might just work on XP and not on Win2000, which is what I run at home. However, I tried using the latest drivers on my XP machine at work and it also BSODs. So, it's not the operating system. I tried the older drivers and they also BSOD, despite being the same drivers that worked on another XP machine at work. So, I try yet another XP machine at work (a P3 instead of a P4) and it works there.

So, now I can see no pattern in how to get these drivers to work. It's not necessarily the OS and it's not the processor.

My question is this: Has anyone had any experience with these flashable GBA cartridges and what was it like for you? I get the feeling, from the few successful transfers I've made with the device, that it's more of a pirating tool than it is a development tool, which explains why the quality assurance is so low. It's too bad, too, because I honestly wanted to do some real development and couldn't care less about pirating GBA games...

08-26-2004, 11:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
KnifeMissile Location: Waterloo, Ontario	Flash2Advance driver crash I'm trying to do some real honest-to-goodness GameboyAdvance development on my GameboyAdvance (instead of just running it on an emulator) and I can't get the Flash2Advance cartridge drivers to not BSOD on me. I've gotten it to work on an XP machine at work so I thought it might just work on XP and not on Win2000, which is what I run at home. However, I tried using the latest drivers on my XP machine at work and it also BSODs. So, it's not the operating system. I tried the older drivers and they also BSOD, despite being the same drivers that worked on another XP machine at work. So, I try yet another XP machine at work (a P3 instead of a P4) and it works there. So, now I can see no pattern in how to get these drivers to work. It's not necessarily the OS and it's not the processor. My question is this: Has anyone had any experience with these flashable GBA cartridges and what was it like for you? I get the feeling, from the few successful transfers I've made with the device, that it's more of a pirating tool than it is a development tool, which explains why the quality assurance is so low. It's too bad, too, because I honestly wanted to do some real development and couldn't care less about pirating GBA games...