Still no Mother 3 repro's eh?

noisereduxnoiseredux
in Gamer's Gauntlet
With all the amazing NES repro's being produced (even on this forum alone), and with all the GBA bootlegs of official titles floating around on eBay, I'm surprised that GBA repro's aren't a common thing. I'd imagine that there's a ton of us here who would snatch up a nice English repro of Mother 3 for instance. And that would really just be the chip of the iceberg.

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  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    I suspect the actual work to make one is a bigger pain in the ass since the chips/boards are smaller, and the pin-out is probably higher count (like SNES games).



    Usually, I think people just get GBA flash carts and flash individual games, rather than doing a "proper" reproduction.
  • removed-07-06-2016removed-07-06-2016
    This is pretty much the case with Mother 3. The Starmen.net community released an English patch and pretty detailed instructions on how to put it on a flash cart. Make that the only game on your cart, print a nice little label for it, and BAM, you've got yourself a dedicated Mother 3 repro. Only difference is the hardware it's stored on.
  • noisereduxnoiseredux
    Originally posted by: nesguy

    This is pretty much the case with Mother 3. The Starmen.net community released an English patch and pretty detailed instructions on how to put it on a flash cart. Make that the only game on your cart, print a nice little label for it, and BAM, you've got yourself a dedicated Mother 3 repro. Only difference is the hardware it's stored on.


    I guess I'm surprised that nobody has made a bunch of these with repro game cases, etc though. Even if it is a flashcart, if the label and packaging were cool then I'd be sold. I believe I've also heard (rumors?) that you could flash it, take the innards of the flashcart out and stick em in a donor cart. But I'm not sure how true that is.
  • removed-07-06-2016removed-07-06-2016
    Not sure how true that is, either. However, flash carts aren't all that cheap. I think the most prohibitive factors here are that, and the fact that GBA flash carts aren't quite as common as they used to be with the dominance of the DS the last 4-5 years.
  • TanookiTanooki
    It doesn't exist as there's no room in those little carts to jury rig up a spare chip like they do in home system carts to bypass the original load and put your repro game in action. Bust open a GBA game some time, that whole damn space is being well used. It has to be that really.
  • kcsimskcsims
    Does anyone know a flash cart that is still available for the gba that I could do as described with printing a label and such?
  • BerserkerBerserker
    Is it possible to use a flashcart's computer connector to overwrite the Jap cart with the translation?
  • jajajajajaja
    Originally posted by: Berserker

    Is it possible to use a flashcart's computer connector to overwrite the Jap cart with the translation?
    No, retail GBA games uses ROM chips that cant be overwritten. You need to change the chips in the game first then at least.


  • kcsimskcsims
    How do the chinese pirates make the 8 million carts all over eBay? Let's just do what they did.
  • collectorvisioncollectorvision
    Originally posted by: kcsims

    Does anyone know a flash cart that is still available for the gba that I could do as described with printing a label and such?




    That's what you need image

    I'll consider selling this... 

  • noisereduxnoiseredux
    Originally posted by: kcsims

    How do the chinese pirates make the 8 million carts all over eBay? Let's just do what they did.


    that's what I'm thinking!
  • collectorvisioncollectorvision
    Originally posted by: noiseredux

    Originally posted by: kcsims

    How do the chinese pirates make the 8 million carts all over eBay? Let's just do what they did.


    that's what I'm thinking!


    Couples months ago, I contacted a chinese company to inquiry Custom GBA cartridges (I asked for Mother3).  They wanted to charged me about $10 per cart..... the only downside was that I needed to ordered a minimum of 1000 carts

    So yeah, its very possible to make GBA carts, but you have to spend alot of cash for making them

     

  • 0xero00xero0
    You could ask around over at http://www.gbadev.org/
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