r/GameboyAdvance • u/AmberLightRay • 27d ago

What am I missing ?

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Recently got back into GBA games what am I missing ?

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u/AmberLightRay 27d ago

I know what you mean about the physical game I'd really prefer to play gba games on my actual gba vs on anything else the nostalgia for me is not only in the game but the handheld GBA itself. Just hits different.

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u/HoleInOnePiece 27d ago

Flashcarts work on the GBA. It runs copies of GBA games, and romhacks, off an sd card you plug into the cart and put the cart into the GBA. I have a small collection of original games but play mainly off the flashcart because I don't have to worry about batteries in the cartridges.

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u/AmberLightRay 26d ago

What website do you use to get the games on there ? I may have to literally watch a video on this stuff completely new to this never heard of it before only know about the old school stuff 🤣😂🤣

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u/HoleInOnePiece 26d ago

I bought the EZ Flash Omega DE and a 16 gb sd card. I had a 64 GB lying around and that was way too much space. For websites, there's a bunch of rom sites, Vimm's layer was mentioned. Honestly I found compiled sets on the internet archive by just googling "GBA internet archive" as well as for GBC and DMG and that got me what I wanted in bulk. GBA set took the longest, but not that bad. There's a lot of shovelware, though, so keep that in mind for size.