New and updated utils for Flash Advance Pro carts

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:47 pm

I've made some utils for us who still use old Flash Advance Pro carts.

1. Updated Jeff Frohwein's GBA FLinker to work on XP and Linux.

2. tftpds, a new app to transfer a file and program a Flash Advance Pro cart over wifi on Nintendo DS.

See my new page: http://www.itstud.chalmers.se/~larssten/nds/

qw3rty · Post by **qw3rty** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:51 pm

This is an awesome app, if only my old Visoly-Card would fit in the DS :-/

The 9th Sage · Post by **The 9th Sage** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:16 am

qw3rty wrote:This is an awesome app, if only my old Visoly-Card would fit in the DS :-/

It will if you take the casing off or shave the sides of the casing down like I did.

Joat · Post by **Joat** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:39 am

I took a GBC case from a game I'd already destroyed for another project and liberally applied an x-acto, then put the visoly pcb in it.

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:28 pm

I've released tftpds v2.0. Changes:
* A GUI which lists files on cart
* Boots gba files
* Read and write sram
* Using paths to select where to write
* Fixed a bug in dswifi which prevented large files from working correctly

grovedabg · Post by **grovedabg** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:27 am

I get a header error reading on both files when trying unzip them.

I have an old Flash Linker/Flash Advance Pro 128 cart but the Flash Linker for some reason no longer works, is it possible through use of tftpds to flash a program on the cart without the Flash Linker?

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:37 am

grovedabg wrote:I get a header error reading on both files when trying unzip them.

What program are you unpacking with? Make sure you use a program that supports "tar" and "bzip2". On Linux you would unpack with "tar xjvf tftpds-2.0.tar.bz2". If you're using Windows you can use a program like 7-zip (haven't tried though).

grovedabg wrote:I have an old Flash Linker/Flash Advance Pro 128 cart but the Flash Linker for some reason no longer works, is it possible through use of tftpds to flash a program on the cart without the Flash Linker?

Yes absolutely. The only problem is that you need a way to run tftpds, but after starting tftpds swap whatever you have inserted in the gba slot for your flash cart, then upload a file according to the instructions in the readme.

MaHe · Post by **MaHe** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:25 am

Could you add some support for X-ROM? I've always wanted to buy one(GBA homebrew dev. on GBAmp simply sucks), but I haven't got a GBA to write data on it ...

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:43 am

MaHe wrote:Could you add some support for X-ROM? I've always wanted to buy one(GBA homebrew dev. on GBAmp simply sucks), but I haven't got a GBA to write data on it ...

There are two problems
1. I don't have any info on how to write to an X-ROM cart.
2. I don't have one to test with.

MaHe · Post by **MaHe** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:56 am

Ummm ... What about eCube?

BTW, awesome application ;)

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:12 pm

MaHe wrote:Ummm ... What about eCube?

BTW, awesome application ;)

Thanks. Unfortunately I only have a Flash Advance Pro 256M cart. I don't know how to flash any other cart. Sorry.

grovedabg · Post by **grovedabg** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:48 pm

Stonebone wrote:
grovedabg wrote:I get a header error reading on both files when trying unzip them.
What program are you unpacking with? Make sure you use a program that supports "tar" and "bzip2". On Linux you would unpack with "tar xjvf tftpds-2.0.tar.bz2". If you're using Windows you can use a program like 7-zip (haven't tried though).

grovedabg wrote:I have an old Flash Linker/Flash Advance Pro 128 cart but the Flash Linker for some reason no longer works, is it possible through use of tftpds to flash a program on the cart without the Flash Linker?
Yes absolutely. The only problem is that you need a way to run tftpds, but after starting tftpds swap whatever you have inserted in the gba slot for your flash cart, then upload a file according to the instructions in the readme.

Thanks, now I just got to find me a wifi USB cable.

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:04 pm

grovedabg wrote:Thanks, now I just got to find me a wifi USB cable.

Wifi USB cable?

grovedabg · Post by **grovedabg** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:10 pm

I meant the Wifi USB connector, I don't have a wireless router.

Stonebone · Post by **Stonebone** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:31 pm

grovedabg wrote:I meant the Wifi USB connector, I don't have a wireless router.

You must have an wireless access point. It might be possible to use the official Nintendo USB connector but I have not tried this. Take a look in this thread:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?p=64212#64212