I found that some games wont work even after being patched with supercard software, or they wont save (talking about in game save), or wont be patched. The solution to those problems is to run the supercard software as an administrator!
@@lewis1285 Honestly I haven't noticed since I didn't play that many different games... the only game I played that was a bit slow sometimes is Doom 1 and 2, but soon after I discovered that those games are supposed to be sometimes slow because of the stress they put on the unit / hardware... maybe it's the same with Tekken and GTA. Have you tried this method?
@@Metallicarlangas First of all you should download the software which you can get from here www.minihere.com/supercard-mini-sd-gba-flashcart-firmware-v1-85-software-v2-71-download.html Next you should install the SC MiniSD v2.71 software on your computer, and other two Firmware V1.85 and MoonShell Reset for SC copy on to the sd card of your flash cart. When you installed the MiniSD software, if you decide to patch some games, you should run it as admin. You do that like this: 1. Right click on shortcut of MiniSD software and click "Run as administrator" - for momentary use, means you will have to do this every time you want to patch a game or 2. Right click on shortcut of MiniSD software and click Propertis > Compatibility > check the "Run this program as administrator" under Privilege level > Apply > OK - for pernament use, do this once and you can patch games any time you want to. Hope I was helpful, but you should know that some games will not work even after being patched like this, cheers!
Normal Save is to save the in-game save into your SD card. For example, in a Pokemon game, you hit SAVE from the game menu and turn off the GBA - when you turn and load the Pokemon game, your save will not be there. You need to SAVE from the game menu + do the Normal save combo, and Save it. This will write your normal save on your SD card.
@@RepAir06what I think fixed it for me, in the software when you’re enabling the rts and normal save there are two extra save options. I think one of them is titled “More rts” or something. I ticked those and both rts and normal save work now
Just bought that card, and it's really the cheaper I've ever found, and it's worth every single cent. I really thank you for this video, it explains everything perfectly, and I'm loving playing all the old games I just downloaded! Thank you again!
some info about the Supercard what the Normal Save feature does is move the savefile from the temporary chip to your SD card, and i mean the savefile as in when you save in-game, everytime you save in-game you need to bring up this menu and do a normal save so your savefile is actually written to the SD another feature is, actually it can play NDS games, on a DS of course and you also need a forwarder or having FlashMe installed in your DS, but it can play DS games some of the bads of the SuperCard is that there are some games that no matter if you patch it or not, it won't load some games run a bit choppy as you probably noticed all in all, the SuperCard is a good cheap choice if you want to go a bit farther you could go for an EZFlash Omega, which i have tried as well and works a lot better than the SuperCard without being as expensive as an Everdrive, it also has some quirks and doesn't supports DS games like the SC does
@@frostycomedy-man9985 yeah, one of the main big quirks of the EZFlash is remembering that writing the save file to the SD takes a bit This is for situations where your are done playing and want to turn off your console just right after saving, you need to wait around 10-20 seconds to allow for the card to save your file after the game tells you "save completed", unlike the SuperCard, the EZFlash saves automatically when you save in-game One if the big pluses the EZFlash has is actual hardware RTC SuperCard doesn't supports it at all and Everdrive emulates it which can cause some wonky behavior
@@DragoSmash Wow thanks so much for the reply, extreme useful to know. The fact that you have to wait for the EZflash to save might mean it's just as convenient to do the manual save with the SuperCard right? Still not a huge deal to wait for the save so it might be worth it just for the extra game compatibility. Which card do you use today? If any?
@@frostycomedy-man9985 for the saving process, yeah, both might as well take the same time, the SuperCard needs the button combination while the EZFlash does it automatically The EZFlash is very worth it, just like i mentioned in the first post, the SuperCard has game issues, some may not run at all, or run choppy, while the EZFlash has run everything without a problem, from Pokemon ROM hacks to obscure games that the SuperCard can't run Another benefit of EZFlash is that you don't need a program to patch the ROMs, the EZFlash also does this automatically So while i keep my SuperCard for testing, i mainly use my EZFlash for playing
@@DragoSmash Okay terrific thank you very much for the info, I was very worried about edge+case games that perhaps wouldn't run or not a full speed with the EZFlash, I want to be sure games are going to run well spending that kind of money. I'm glad to hear you've found compatibility good around the board. I don't mind patching roms or dealing with annoying software so long as the games run okay, but if the SuperCard place a substantial amount of games choppily, then you may as well just emulate. Thanks so much I'm not gonna waste my time with the SuperCard. I'm gonna try to track down an EZFlash
Some useful information to save anyone time: 1. The system recommends you right click on super card program on your PC, and gonto properties and then to compatibility tab. Select compatibility mode and choose Windows XP service pack 2. I always run the software as administrator after that. 2. Once you load a game into the super card program. Double click on the title you want, and select all the save stuff so it works just like a normal save when you save in game. The save state sjust flat out don't work for me. Glitches out and doesn't even work. This method works for all the pokemon games so you can save in game. 3. If your games just flat out aren't loading. It's probably due to your console. One of my two gba simply would not load any games. My other gba loads fine. Thank God I had 2. It works superb in nds. 4. Rom hacks feel REAL buggy. I may just give up on them and stick to fully legit games. 5. I also only copy/patch a single game at a time. Not sure if this helps, but I do it.
I have had a super card ds mini sd for a few years now and it doesn't have any of these issues except the HD card issue yes you have to use a mini to micro adapter on it or use the obscure mini sd card but it is fairly straightforward you just load the roms on the card and go through the menu and select the rom you want.
Thanks for the vid, cleared some things up. Glad to be able to add roms and play them well on my GB micro but the Supercard has a lot of quirks, specially when saving. The upside is the expandable storage, but I had an EZ flash as a teen, even thought it had limited storage it was a more seamless, traditional experience.
thanks a lot for the solution there's not instructions at all in the box, so i'm grateful, i wasn't sure it will working so good for a so cheap price 👍
Thanks for the video. I came across this while waiting for mine in shipping. It's up to $17 now, haha. I had to dig around but found a couple low-density sd cards tucked away in a drawer. I was able to unbox the Super Card and have it working in minutes. For me it works great on the Gameboy Player adapter for the Gamecube. I might have to get another Gameboy and upgrade the battery and IPS screen. Cheers!
I mean if you want a cheap Flash cart solution and you already have a GBA this is a perfectly valid way to play roms on your GBA on the cheap. And while the capacity may not be much you also have to remember its plenty for just GBA as most Roms are 8, or 16 MBs certain special roms do run up to 32 MBs like Kingdom Hearts Chain of memories but most are 8 to 16MBs. With Saves being around anywhere between 50 to 200KBs in other words it would take over 100+ Roms to actually fill a 2GB card up also you can find a 2GB micro SD easily lying around or for dirt cheap online.
Awesome. I'll totally pick this up when I get around to doing advance stuff. I just got a PlayStation classic in the mail yesterday. Had my retropie with the 3b and I've got the 4b+ on back order. Hopefully it'll be here next week. But this is an awesome and adorable solution, thanks for making a video
I have done what you indicate but it does not work, in my case using it on my original Game Boy Advance model, I have observed that it is a cartridge voltage problem. When I change the internal battery that comes with the Supercard to an AAA battery or directly connected to GBA batteries, it gives it enough power that it doesn't stagnate on a white screen when running the game.
I just got this flash cart, it had that version of the firmware. I can confirm it works fine on my GBA SP AND DSi with a 2GB SD card - when they say FAT, they mean FAT16 and not FAT32. If you get crashes converting roms, remove the converted ones and convert again. I do one by one, double click the file, it sometimes thinks it can apply cheats that don't exist... or just disable everything. if the double click doesn't work, untick all the options, close the app, restart it, load the rom and it should export as a single file. I convert roms per letter and remove the roms that converted and find the bad ones by double clicking all of them, the bad ones are extract for debuging and I try again the conversion repeat.. it's kinda painful process :/ lastly I convert the extracted roms with no save/cheat features. The saves work fine on the games that support it on both GBA and DSi. It also supports folders. Great cart for the price.... if you already have the SD 2GB ;)
Thank you so much. This and the tip from the pinned comment made it work perfectly. Unfortunately emulating a GBC game was pretty broken. It started and all but ran slowly and glitched.
I have this card and it works great. Mind you, I'm coming from a 20 year old xrom ezflash card, so it's an upgrade. So you've got a use an app to compile the games, and when you add new games it screws up the order, so you just cut/paste the whole directory again and you're good. Some games don't work, so you recompile them without the save or cheat options and they work. If i had one of the better cards to begin with I'm sure I'd hate this one, but for the price, and compared to my old one, this is great
I've formatted my SD card using multiple programs and it still gives me the "Not FAT Format Please turn off GBA" error. I know its needs to be standard fat16 and not fat 32, but no matter which method I use to format it, I get the same error.
Hi nice video, the "normal save" function is to save the game "battery save file" to the actual sd memory card, thats bc when you are playing and use a "save game option" in the game, its just saving a temporary file in flash card "battery", so after this yo have to do a "normal save" with the buttons combination to make a complete save in the sd memory card, otherwise you will lose your progress...
@@aikou2886 it's the metal on the cart. Put one up for sale tho haven't had a gba in awhile. It's not as conductive as most gba carts. Somehow the battery power also affects it tho. Could also be the alignment of the pins too but it is made out of different metal than the other repro carts I have, and the other repros work much better.
Not a bad deal to be honest. I suppose if someone is super serious they might invest in an Everdrive, but this seems like a good solution for those who don't want to carry tons of carts.
Im 5 years late but man this video was so helpfull i looked at some reddit forums but they said it does not work at all and you should not buy it but i got one and i was not sure how to use it properly but thank you so much you are a life saver man👏🏻👏🏻
Well, I feel a bit more reassured about this cart. I notice that you have an IPS screen however, thus I have a few questions (If anybody would be so kind to entertain them). 1. I'm told that more traditional flash carts like the everdrive and ez flash use more battery life (which is a premium w/ an ips screen), likely due to the fact that you're using a software to boot the games (which is likely still active in game considering you can use save states). Have you noticed decreased battery life with the super card sd? 2. Considering this is a gameboy, the elephant in the room for every bootleg/flash cart is: How well does it function with pokemon? Do trades still work? Can you import pokemon to DS? And most importantly, are there corruption/ lost save file issues? Thank you
Hi, I can answer your number 2 question. For Pokemon, trading works for GBA to GBA, I haven't tried it with Gamecube, though. I tested it with a trade between Supercard SD and a legit Pokemon Gamecart. For import with DS, I don't think it will work since DS needs an actual Pokemon cart in slot 2 to be able to import. For game saves, I haven't encountered any, however, if you will use the in-game save function of Pokemon, make sure that you save in-game and then do the Normal Save combo (L+R+A+Select) and then save there too. This will write your normal save file (SRAM) to your SD card. If you don't do that, you'll lose your in-game.
I’m currently waiting on mine to come and have everything ready. Am I able to run everything in the program prior to receiving the super card, save it to a folder for now so it’s done so I can then just copy it over and save time? Or would it be better to wait and put them straight to the SD card from the program once I have it? Thanks!
Hello, I have a problem with my Suppercard. Since I have tried with three 1 and two 2GB microsds, I have patched the games and inserted the firmware update file (which is not necessary because 1.85 is already installed by default), but I can't see ANY game on the screen. console. It is formatted in FAT and I have tried with different clusters 16, 32, 64 but nothing. What I can do ? Apart from claiming the seller
I believe "normal save" means you save the game without using a save state. Not sure how any of this works but as far as I've read, you're supposed to save as you'd normally do in your game and then use the button combination for the normal save. I believe the in-game save creates .sav file while the button combo updates it. I've read this card has some issues but your video made me feel a little better about my purchase. Cheers!
You can play gb|gbc games too, just put the roms into the sd and play, don`t need to patch them. To save, do the in-game save first, then click L and R at the same time, click A on "Save State", then click L, R, Select and A at the same time and click A on "Save in SD?". This only does the in-game saving, i don`t know about any save state method.
This does not work at all. Also cannot work as you describe, as Save States is a completely different matter than Battery Saves. There may be another method, but I have to experiment with it. But maybe it is just impossible to save in games for any other system than GBA...
Is this firmware version compatible with the super card that says mini sd and the one that says micro sd? so as not to cause a failure in the update and generate a brik😊
I followed the guide but my card doesn't see the folders. if I put the games inside without a folder everything works, if I create a folder it doesn't see it. Am I doing something wrong?
Hi RetroGameouch. Just short info from my side. I've tested my unit (SuperCard SD bought years ago - not a mini/microSD) works with 4GB SD cards (as long as they are _not_ SDHC).
It's usually the case that if the device works with a particular card standard - then anything within that standard will work. I often see specs sheets on various devices saying max supported card size to be 64GB or 128GB, which is obviously the SDXC specification. Problem is - the specs sheets often describe either the maximum card size that was available at the time of the product's launch, or something that most consumers might be buying. In reality, the SDXC specification goes up to 2TB (we have not yet reached that card size, but 1TB cards are now available) and all those devices that worked with "max 64GB" cards work just fine with 128GB, 200GB, 400GB, etc cards. You just have to make sure the specification matches the device's controller and you're good to go on any capacity within the range.
What about normal saves? If I play a game, then get to a point where I can make an ingame save. Then restart the game, the save is there. But if I then play a different game for a little while and then try that other game again the save has disappeared
I'll try this right now with my old (ten years) Supercard SD and my GBA SP. I want to play PKMN Leaf Green in this quarantine but I got the white screen because I only have the .gba files. Whatever, you are a genious! Share your mistakes and solutions is excellent for everyone. One thing, why we need to update the firmware? Best man, one subscribed here
If it is old firmware they have probably worked out some bugs. If it matches like his you don't need it and you can just take it off your SD. Or you can run it and erase it after. Just make sure your battery is full so it doesn't shut of while it updates. P.S. You can run Gameboy, Gameboy Color, NES,SEGA Master System,Colecovision with apps like goomba color and pocket nes. Just convert them to GBA then run them through the converter he showed you.
really? and how does it do that?? usually everdrives use gooba emulator to run gb/gbc games, does this cartridge somehow run the games as original gb/gbc games once you flash them?
@@xadeua also plays NES Games .... But they need to be put in folders... 63 games each folders.. Or make a PocketNes rom... wich holds 151 games... in one rom
Hello! to your knowledge, is firmware v1.85 the latest one? I have been looking around, but the official site is down. Also, some people reported using firmware 2.0, but I have not been ble to find that one... Thanks for the help!
also you do know this can run nes gameboy and pc engine and sega mastersystem roms on mine tho pc engine roms just show a black screen other systems work good tho
Something you glossed over is that saving progress with this cart is a pain in the ass. Everytime you save with the in-game option you have to manually write the save file to the sd card, and then load it again the next time. Restoring a save file after modifying it is also hit and miss. Save states might work better but I don't want to use them. I bought this card after watching this video but I'm boing to be returning it
i'm having some problems with my super card, when i put it in my gba or nds it won't show any of the games i installed, the only thing that show are the folders and the saves, can anyone help me?
It still white screens after loading any game. I don't get it. I even updated the firmware to the one you provided in the description. EDIT: It works fine on my NDSL? But it doesn't work on either of my GBAs..
Do you know if anything has changed for it since then?? Ive tried it and its still flashing a white screen like if its corrupted after all the steps maybe something im missing...
I recently found my old Supercard that I used for my Nintendo DS and GBA. The rom were not working, because I totally forgot 15 years after that it has to be patced, so thank you for giving the hint! I also remembered that some ROM were slowly at some point. In Donkey Kong Country for example, , the game was very slow on a few sequences, as well as in some other games that I don't recall. I guess the Supercard was not fast enough for heavy action/sprites. Is anyone noticed things like this?
I was reading about it. They say it's because GBA cartridges had two read modes, one fast and one slow. The slow mode allowed for cheaper ROM memory inside the cartridge. The GBA started in slow mode and then the cartridge set the mode to fast if it supported it. In practice all cartridges ended up using fast mode. Since the supercard is cheap, the SRAM it uses to substitute the ROM in a real cartridge is slow. The patcher modifies the ROM file so it doesn't switch to fast mode. If it switches to fast mode, then the SRAM cannot be read and all you get is a white screen.
I also have this terrible card. Many games are plagued by excessive glitches and slow down. Please steer clear of this trash card and get something better. You won't regret it
For just playing ROMs, a measly 2gb is okay and it makes sense. The ROMs load to the cart. But will it play video? I’m wondering about custom software to use high capacity SD cards. But even then, the largest playable file size would be a little bit less than 2gb.
Does yours just say miniSD on it, but it takes a microSD card? They are different sizes. The photos of the kind with the Star Wars Boba Fett character on the label all say miniSD and show what looks like a miniSD card. The clear purple ones that say TF in the title say they take microSD, which is originally called TF.
I have one to another thing you can do is play nes games just make a folder name it anything you want open it drag in nes games on the carpet and drag the folder to the root of your sd card and play
You must do the in-game save first, then you click L and R at the same time, click A on "save state" and press L, R, Select and A at the same time then click A in "Save in SD?".
ive heard there are some issues when it comes to loading and saving some games. Ive had my eye on this flashcard mainly because i want to play the gba fire emblem games and, as we all know, fire emblem is the type of game where you put hundreds and hundreds of hours and it would be a shame if the save file got corrupted or some other thing. Have you had this issue with any game or is that just with some games?
use save states real saves via saving in game work if i remember its only for 1 game at a time and if you save another game not via save state it will remove your the save from your other game also if battery dies in it you will not be able to save anymore
I play sacred stones on the super card and haven't had any issues. The only games that I've had issues with is Pokemon where the save is 128kb, but its easily solved by just saving twice before I load the save to the SD. The game always says the save is corrupted and will revert to the previous one. By saving twice, it goes back to my first save. I'm guessing Pokemon keeps a backup of your save on the first 64kb and then the latest save on the second half of the 128kb savefile. Since the supercard only saves 64kb, the second(and latest) save gets deleted.
0:40 "I fixed all of them" BULLSHIT. A real ROM has single-cycle storage access. This card has 4-cycle memory access. The best you can do with this hardware is burst access where first cell is accessed in 3 cycles and subsequent ones in a sequence in one cycle - but demanding games still don't work. This is why games lock up on start when unpatched. At a bare minimum, the patcher modifies the ROM to use 4/4 timings on the memory access, this is sufficient to start a game. Additionally it modifies save type from EEPROM to SRAM, creates a SRAM file prefab and embeds a set of hotkey menus into the game to load/store savestate and SRAM. 6:05 "it also supports normal saves, not sure what that means". There is a single SRAM chip on the cartridge that is the same as used by the majority of genuine game cartridges for battery-backed save. Most versions of SuperCard have a battery to maintain the save in the same manner, but because they are intended to run more than one game (you add a bunch of ROM files on your SD-Card), the SRAM gets cleared every time you start a game - it's actually reintialised with a file from from SD-Card. After you modify the data in SRAM by saving your progress in-game, you also have to use the hotkey menu for "normal save" to copy the contents of SRAM to a file on SD-Card. Which is to say of course extremely stupid - instead they should have used a tag file. The patcher app is junk too, it crashes and will sometimes patch fine, sometimes it will fail. Was thinking of writing a more robust and cross-platform patcher, but not sure it's worth the effort. It is highly suggested to avoid the Supercard if possible. Get EZFlash instead, it's not too expensive either, though it is more expensive.
I've got a EZFlash Omega, works totally fine indeed. Don't know why anyone want to buy a cheap flashcard like the Super Card. If you have a AGS101 display in one of your gameboys or have a DS Lite and you want decent emulation , just save some money a few months longer and buy a proper FC.
Hey, recently I adquiere a super SD card. The thing is I follow all your steps buts when I try to play, any of the game appears in the main menu. Do you know how can I fixed?
I just received my SuperCard, looks exactly the same as the one in the video. It came with its own 2GB micro SD, preloaded with games and stuff. However when I plug it in my GBA it shows just a blank screen. If I remove the card it says "NO SD card", which means the cartridge works... But doesnt seem to be able to read the SD card. Anyone stumbled upon a similar problem?
@@teddyho3617 I got a solution.... Just bought a new SD card. It was quite hard to find a 2GB microSD locally, but I found it. It cost the same as a 16 GB card but it doesn't matter. It turns out the original card that came with the cartiridge is actually a 4GB card with a 2GB partition. That's why it didn't work.
Most games work providing you have the firmware185 bin on the sd too I found that was the only way to get the games list to boot and be able to play game Roms
I have days looking if it is possible with the supercard to emulate the movies that came out for gameboy advance video? I hope you can answer my question, I would appreciate it a lot
Hey. I have a question about saving. I've been able to do the L+R+A+SELECT menu in most games, but some just don't have it. My main example is Mega Man Battle Network 1, 6, and Battle Chip Challenge. They're patched the exaxt same way as 2 through 5, and those work. Why is this? Edit: I forgot to mention that I can't use the RTS menu (L+R+B+SELECT) either in this case.
i changed the cr1620 battery because it was showing the run dry message on pokemon emerald, and it still shows me that message after battery replacement... is there a sort of patch for this?
I found that some games wont work even after being patched with supercard software, or they wont save (talking about in game save), or wont be patched. The solution to those problems is to run the supercard software as an administrator!
Great tip!
Does it solve the speed issue? Some GBA roms run super slow for me, like Tekken and GTA.
@@lewis1285 Honestly I haven't noticed since I didn't play that many different games... the only game I played that was a bit slow sometimes is Doom 1 and 2, but soon after I discovered that those games are supposed to be sometimes slow because of the stress they put on the unit / hardware... maybe it's the same with Tekken and GTA. Have you tried this method?
How do you run the supercard as an administrator? I'm new to this
@@Metallicarlangas First of all you should download the software which you can get from here www.minihere.com/supercard-mini-sd-gba-flashcart-firmware-v1-85-software-v2-71-download.html
Next you should install the SC MiniSD v2.71 software on your computer, and other two Firmware V1.85 and MoonShell Reset for SC copy on to the sd card of your flash cart. When you installed the MiniSD software, if you decide to patch some games, you should run it as admin. You do that like this:
1. Right click on shortcut of MiniSD software and click "Run as administrator" - for momentary use, means you will have to do this every time you want to patch a game
or
2. Right click on shortcut of MiniSD software and click Propertis > Compatibility > check the "Run this program as administrator" under Privilege level > Apply > OK - for pernament use, do this once and you can patch games any time you want to.
Hope I was helpful, but you should know that some games will not work even after being patched like this, cheers!
This tutorial even add directly download for needed software. Are you angel?
Normal Save is to save the in-game save into your SD card.
For example, in a Pokemon game, you hit SAVE from the game menu and turn off the GBA - when you turn and load the Pokemon game, your save will not be there.
You need to SAVE from the game menu + do the Normal save combo, and Save it. This will write your normal save on your SD card.
hello, the save combo won't work.
I play on a ds lite. every one of my keys work but i can't manage to open the normal save menu... could you help me?
@@RepAir06what I think fixed it for me, in the software when you’re enabling the rts and normal save there are two extra save options. I think one of them is titled “More rts” or something. I ticked those and both rts and normal save work now
Just bought that card, and it's really the cheaper I've ever found, and it's worth every single cent. I really thank you for this video, it explains everything perfectly, and I'm loving playing all the old games I just downloaded! Thank you again!
@Nemanja Stojanović
How did you fix it? I'm playing Fire Emblem and it won't save, only with save states (which I hate using).
@@mandatorial the savestates are safer to use
its a mess to use
stick with the ez flash iv/other bootleg flashcarts if youre on a low budget
some info about the Supercard
what the Normal Save feature does is move the savefile from the temporary chip to your SD card, and i mean the savefile as in when you save in-game, everytime you save in-game you need to bring up this menu and do a normal save so your savefile is actually written to the SD
another feature is, actually it can play NDS games, on a DS of course and you also need a forwarder or having FlashMe installed in your DS, but it can play DS games
some of the bads of the SuperCard is that there are some games that no matter if you patch it or not, it won't load
some games run a bit choppy as you probably noticed
all in all, the SuperCard is a good cheap choice
if you want to go a bit farther you could go for an EZFlash Omega, which i have tried as well and works a lot better than the SuperCard without being as expensive as an Everdrive, it also has some quirks and doesn't supports DS games like the SC does
Thank you i needed this breakdown of the card of someone who's obviously had it a while. Do you still remember what quirks the EZFlash Omega has?
@@frostycomedy-man9985 yeah, one of the main big quirks of the EZFlash is remembering that writing the save file to the SD takes a bit
This is for situations where your are done playing and want to turn off your console just right after saving, you need to wait around 10-20 seconds to allow for the card to save your file after the game tells you "save completed", unlike the SuperCard, the EZFlash saves automatically when you save in-game
One if the big pluses the EZFlash has is actual hardware RTC
SuperCard doesn't supports it at all and Everdrive emulates it which can cause some wonky behavior
@@DragoSmash Wow thanks so much for the reply, extreme useful to know. The fact that you have to wait for the EZflash to save might mean it's just as convenient to do the manual save with the SuperCard right? Still not a huge deal to wait for the save so it might be worth it just for the extra game compatibility. Which card do you use today? If any?
@@frostycomedy-man9985 for the saving process, yeah, both might as well take the same time, the SuperCard needs the button combination while the EZFlash does it automatically
The EZFlash is very worth it, just like i mentioned in the first post, the SuperCard has game issues, some may not run at all, or run choppy, while the EZFlash has run everything without a problem, from Pokemon ROM hacks to obscure games that the SuperCard can't run
Another benefit of EZFlash is that you don't need a program to patch the ROMs, the EZFlash also does this automatically
So while i keep my SuperCard for testing, i mainly use my EZFlash for playing
@@DragoSmash Okay terrific thank you very much for the info, I was very worried about edge+case games that perhaps wouldn't run or not a full speed with the EZFlash, I want to be sure games are going to run well spending that kind of money. I'm glad to hear you've found compatibility good around the board. I don't mind patching roms or dealing with annoying software so long as the games run okay, but if the SuperCard place a substantial amount of games choppily, then you may as well just emulate.
Thanks so much I'm not gonna waste my time with the SuperCard. I'm gonna try to track down an EZFlash
Some useful information to save anyone time:
1. The system recommends you right click on super card program on your PC, and gonto properties and then to compatibility tab. Select compatibility mode and choose Windows XP service pack 2. I always run the software as administrator after that.
2. Once you load a game into the super card program. Double click on the title you want, and select all the save stuff so it works just like a normal save when you save in game. The save state sjust flat out don't work for me. Glitches out and doesn't even work. This method works for all the pokemon games so you can save in game.
3. If your games just flat out aren't loading. It's probably due to your console. One of my two gba simply would not load any games. My other gba loads fine. Thank God I had 2. It works superb in nds.
4. Rom hacks feel REAL buggy. I may just give up on them and stick to fully legit games.
5. I also only copy/patch a single game at a time. Not sure if this helps, but I do it.
I'm not sure it's a console problem. I remember some games had trouble loading/saving in actual hardware if your battery was too low.
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thank you so much ! I bought the same card and I encountered all the issues you mention. Thanks to your video, I was able to fix all of them ;-)
Awesome!
@Nemanja Stojanović Glad you got it sorted.
That gba looks so beautiful and elegant
thank you man for giving us a cheap option to have some of the games for the GBA! world needs more people like you :)
Thank you!
I have had a super card ds mini sd for a few years now and it doesn't have any of these issues except the HD card issue yes you have to use a mini to micro adapter on it or use the obscure mini sd card but it is fairly straightforward you just load the roms on the card and go through the menu and select the rom you want.
This is the micro SD version, and it needs that tool, sadly, before ROMs work.
@@RetroGameCouch so is there a mini sd version?
@@wgzhang830 Yes, search on eBay for: supercard mini sd
Thanks for the vid, cleared some things up. Glad to be able to add roms and play them well on my GB micro but the Supercard has a lot of quirks, specially when saving. The upside is the expandable storage, but I had an EZ flash as a teen, even thought it had limited storage it was a more seamless, traditional experience.
thanks a lot for the solution there's not instructions at all in the box, so i'm grateful, i wasn't sure it will working so good for a so cheap price 👍
Thanks for the video. I came across this while waiting for mine in shipping. It's up to $17 now, haha. I had to dig around but found a couple low-density sd cards tucked away in a drawer. I was able to unbox the Super Card and have it working in minutes. For me it works great on the Gameboy Player adapter for the Gamecube. I might have to get another Gameboy and upgrade the battery and IPS screen. Cheers!
I want one! Nice video, mate 😃
I mean if you want a cheap Flash cart solution and you already have a GBA this is a perfectly valid way to play roms on your GBA on the cheap. And while the capacity may not be much you also have to remember its plenty for just GBA as most Roms are 8, or 16 MBs certain special roms do run up to 32 MBs like Kingdom Hearts Chain of memories but most are 8 to 16MBs. With Saves being around anywhere between 50 to 200KBs in other words it would take over 100+ Roms to actually fill a 2GB card up also you can find a 2GB micro SD easily lying around or for dirt cheap online.
Awesome. I'll totally pick this up when I get around to doing advance stuff. I just got a PlayStation classic in the mail yesterday. Had my retropie with the 3b and I've got the 4b+ on back order. Hopefully it'll be here next week. But this is an awesome and adorable solution, thanks for making a video
It turns out it also plays Game Boy and NES games.
I have done what you indicate but it does not work, in my case using it on my original Game Boy Advance model, I have observed that it is a cartridge voltage problem. When I change the internal battery that comes with the Supercard to an AAA battery or directly connected to GBA batteries, it gives it enough power that it doesn't stagnate on a white screen when running the game.
I just got this flash cart, it had that version of the firmware.
I can confirm it works fine on my GBA SP AND DSi with a 2GB SD card - when they say FAT, they mean FAT16 and not FAT32.
If you get crashes converting roms, remove the converted ones and convert again.
I do one by one, double click the file, it sometimes thinks it can apply cheats that don't exist... or just disable everything.
if the double click doesn't work, untick all the options, close the app, restart it, load the rom and it should export as a single file.
I convert roms per letter and remove the roms that converted and find the bad ones by double clicking all of them, the bad ones are extract for debuging and I try again the conversion repeat.. it's kinda painful process :/
lastly I convert the extracted roms with no save/cheat features.
The saves work fine on the games that support it on both GBA and DSi.
It also supports folders.
Great cart for the price.... if you already have the SD 2GB ;)
The DSi doesn't have a slot for GBA games...
@@RubyDoobieScoo GBA ROMS
Thank you so much. This and the tip from the pinned comment made it work perfectly. Unfortunately emulating a GBC game was pretty broken. It started and all but ran slowly and glitched.
just a question, are the roms being somehow emulated, or are they running on the original hardware?
I have this card and it works great.
Mind you, I'm coming from a 20 year old xrom ezflash card, so it's an upgrade. So you've got a use an app to compile the games, and when you add new games it screws up the order, so you just cut/paste the whole directory again and you're good. Some games don't work, so you recompile them without the save or cheat options and they work.
If i had one of the better cards to begin with I'm sure I'd hate this one, but for the price, and compared to my old one, this is great
I've formatted my SD card using multiple programs and it still gives me the "Not FAT Format Please turn off GBA" error. I know its needs to be standard fat16 and not fat 32, but no matter which method I use to format it, I get the same error.
EZ flash cards are a lot better but significantly more expensive
Hi nice video, the "normal save" function is to save the game "battery save file" to the actual sd memory card, thats bc when you are playing and use a "save game option" in the game, its just saving a temporary file in flash card "battery", so after this yo have to do a "normal save" with the buttons combination to make a complete save in the sd memory card, otherwise you will lose your progress...
Thanks for explaining that!
additionally as the battery drains saves and loads tend to fail. Freshly charged batteries is best bet for saving games.
@@BawkrI've seen people complain about savIng issues but never thought this might be the answer. Thanks!
@@aikou2886 it's the metal on the cart. Put one up for sale tho haven't had a gba in awhile. It's not as conductive as most gba carts. Somehow the battery power also affects it tho. Could also be the alignment of the pins too but it is made out of different metal than the other repro carts I have, and the other repros work much better.
Thanks from France! Everything was super clear, even for me :)
Not a bad deal to be honest. I suppose if someone is super serious they might invest in an Everdrive, but this seems like a good solution for those who don't want to carry tons of carts.
How about the EZ-Flash range of products?
Yeah, for me is good cause for the games that arent compatible i can just save some $ and still collect gba games
Name of the song used in the vid? It's very catchy!
Im 5 years late but man this video was so helpfull i looked at some reddit forums but they said it does not work at all and you should not buy it but i got one and i was not sure how to use it properly but thank you so much you are a life saver man👏🏻👏🏻
You're welcome!
my cartridge sometime show the supercrad menu but doest show the game please help me
Well, I feel a bit more reassured about this cart. I notice that you have an IPS screen however, thus I have a few questions (If anybody would be so kind to entertain them).
1. I'm told that more traditional flash carts like the everdrive and ez flash use more battery life (which is a premium w/ an ips screen), likely due to the fact that you're using a software to boot the games (which is likely still active in game considering you can use save states). Have you noticed decreased battery life with the super card sd?
2. Considering this is a gameboy, the elephant in the room for every bootleg/flash cart is: How well does it function with pokemon? Do trades still work? Can you import pokemon to DS? And most importantly, are there corruption/ lost save file issues?
Thank you
Hi, I can answer your number 2 question.
For Pokemon, trading works for GBA to GBA, I haven't tried it with Gamecube, though. I tested it with a trade between Supercard SD and a legit Pokemon Gamecart.
For import with DS, I don't think it will work since DS needs an actual Pokemon cart in slot 2 to be able to import.
For game saves, I haven't encountered any, however, if you will use the in-game save function of Pokemon, make sure that you save in-game and then do the Normal Save combo (L+R+A+Select) and then save there too. This will write your normal save file (SRAM) to your SD card. If you don't do that, you'll lose your in-game.
Another amazing product! Keep up the good work. :)
I’m currently waiting on mine to come and have everything ready. Am I able to run everything in the program prior to receiving the super card, save it to a folder for now so it’s done so I can then just copy it over and save time? Or would it be better to wait and put them straight to the SD card from the program once I have it? Thanks!
Hello, I have a problem with my Suppercard. Since I have tried with three 1 and two 2GB microsds, I have patched the games and inserted the firmware update file (which is not necessary because 1.85 is already installed by default), but I can't see ANY game on the screen. console. It is formatted in FAT and I have tried with different clusters 16, 32, 64 but nothing. What I can do ? Apart from claiming the seller
I believe "normal save" means you save the game without using a save state. Not sure how any of this works but as far as I've read, you're supposed to save as you'd normally do in your game and then use the button combination for the normal save. I believe the in-game save creates .sav file while the button combo updates it.
I've read this card has some issues but your video made me feel a little better about my purchase.
Cheers!
THANK YOU!! This guide was super mega useful!!!!
Problem. I get an empty list, with no folders or anything.
Same problem here, did you manage to solve it?
Does it take time to read/load the game every time you start it. Or is it a one time thing?
The games already come in the cartridge or you have to put the micro sd in it
You can play gb|gbc games too, just put the roms into the sd and play, don`t need to patch them. To save, do the in-game save first, then click L and R at the same time, click A on "Save State", then click L, R, Select and A at the same time and click A on "Save in SD?". This only does the in-game saving, i don`t know about any save state method.
Thank you so much. This helped me a lot I thought I can never do in game saves
This does not work at all. Also cannot work as you describe, as Save States is a completely different matter than Battery Saves. There may be another method, but I have to experiment with it. But maybe it is just impossible to save in games for any other system than GBA...
@@silkwesir1444 1 year later, and your comment actually helped me. THANK YOU!!
Is this firmware version compatible with the super card that says mini sd and the one that says micro sd? so as not to cause a failure in the update and generate a brik😊
Thanks man I appreciate the guide!
Do you have a software? version that runs on macbook? (.dmg)
How did you find battery life on this cart?
I followed the guide but my card doesn't see the folders. if I put the games inside without a folder everything works, if I create a folder it doesn't see it. Am I doing something wrong?
Hi RetroGameouch. Just short info from my side. I've tested my unit (SuperCard SD bought years ago - not a mini/microSD) works with 4GB SD cards (as long as they are _not_ SDHC).
Thanks. Good to know!
Thank you... Great to know
It's usually the case that if the device works with a particular card standard - then anything within that standard will work. I often see specs sheets on various devices saying max supported card size to be 64GB or 128GB, which is obviously the SDXC specification. Problem is - the specs sheets often describe either the maximum card size that was available at the time of the product's launch, or something that most consumers might be buying. In reality, the SDXC specification goes up to 2TB (we have not yet reached that card size, but 1TB cards are now available) and all those devices that worked with "max 64GB" cards work just fine with 128GB, 200GB, 400GB, etc cards.
You just have to make sure the specification matches the device's controller and you're good to go on any capacity within the range.
@@TheUltimateBlooper agreed. Often the other limitation is FileSystem type which device support.
I bought this just a week ago and mine says you can watch movies on it too , i wanted to ask if that's possible ?
I believe it's possible. You just need to convert them to a format readable for the GBA. Not sure if the Supercard software would be on any help.
What about normal saves? If I play a game, then get to a point where I can make an ingame save. Then restart the game, the save is there. But if I then play a different game for a little while and then try that other game again the save has disappeared
Non HC SD card Card discontinued and hard to get. Make sure you have a Non HC 2GB SD card Card before getting it.
Are you interested in reviewing the SCFW for the Super Card SD?
Where can I find more info on this?
I'll try this right now with my old (ten years) Supercard SD and my GBA SP. I want to play PKMN Leaf Green in this quarantine but I got the white screen because I only have the .gba files. Whatever, you are a genious! Share your mistakes and solutions is excellent for everyone. One thing, why we need to update the firmware? Best man, one subscribed here
If it is old firmware they have probably worked out some bugs. If it matches like his you don't need it and you can just take it off your SD. Or you can run it and erase it after. Just make sure your battery is full so it doesn't shut of while it updates.
P.S. You can run Gameboy, Gameboy Color, NES,SEGA Master System,Colecovision with apps like goomba color and pocket nes. Just convert them to GBA then run them through the converter he showed you.
So it does work with GBA SP ??
It supports Gb and Gbc too not just gba
really? and how does it do that?? usually everdrives use gooba emulator to run gb/gbc games, does this cartridge somehow run the games as original gb/gbc games once you flash them?
nvm i just found out that this thing was designed for gb/gbc games
@@xadeua also plays NES Games .... But they need to be put in folders... 63 games each folders.. Or make a PocketNes rom... wich holds 151 games... in one rom
Hello! to your knowledge, is firmware v1.85 the latest one? I have been looking around, but the official site is down. Also, some people reported using firmware 2.0, but I have not been ble to find that one... Thanks for the help!
Yes. In my research the newest I found was 1.85.
also you do know this can run nes gameboy and pc engine and sega mastersystem roms
on mine tho pc engine roms just show a black screen other systems work good tho
How??
@@xCARPx2014 the emulators are built in just copy the roms to your sd card
Is the Support TF Card you see being sold the same things as this?
Something you glossed over is that saving progress with this cart is a pain in the ass. Everytime you save with the in-game option you have to manually write the save file to the sd card, and then load it again the next time. Restoring a save file after modifying it is also hit and miss. Save states might work better but I don't want to use them. I bought this card after watching this video but I'm boing to be returning it
i'm having some problems with my super card, when i put it in my gba or nds it won't show any of the games i installed, the only thing that show are the folders and the saves, can anyone help me?
Hey, i just bought that card but i can't convert with my mac. I must download a virtual computer with windows or there is another way ? Thanks
I'm afraid the software is not available for Mac. So you need to either get your hands on a Windows PC or emulate one.
get a win rig used for cheap. just needs win xp or newer.
It still white screens after loading any game. I don't get it. I even updated the firmware to the one you provided in the description.
EDIT: It works fine on my NDSL? But it doesn't work on either of my GBAs..
On my flash cart, save combo don't work. Any help? I played LoZ Minish Cap, saved normaly and if I saved file on Kirby, LoZ save was lost.
Do you know if anything has changed for it since then?? Ive tried it and its still flashing a white screen like if its corrupted after all the steps maybe something im missing...
Does it supports real time clock (RTC) for pokemon games?
I recently found my old Supercard that I used for my Nintendo DS and GBA. The rom were not working, because I totally forgot 15 years after that it has to be patced, so thank you for giving the hint!
I also remembered that some ROM were slowly at some point. In Donkey Kong Country for example, , the game was very slow on a few sequences, as well as in some other games that I don't recall. I guess the Supercard was not fast enough for heavy action/sprites.
Is anyone noticed things like this?
I was reading about it. They say it's because GBA cartridges had two read modes, one fast and one slow. The slow mode allowed for cheaper ROM memory inside the cartridge. The GBA started in slow mode and then the cartridge set the mode to fast if it supported it. In practice all cartridges ended up using fast mode. Since the supercard is cheap, the SRAM it uses to substitute the ROM in a real cartridge is slow. The patcher modifies the ROM file so it doesn't switch to fast mode. If it switches to fast mode, then the SRAM cannot be read and all you get is a white screen.
I also have this terrible card. Many games are plagued by excessive glitches and slow down. Please steer clear of this trash card and get something better. You won't regret it
For just playing ROMs, a measly 2gb is okay and it makes sense. The ROMs load to the cart. But will it play video? I’m wondering about custom software to use high capacity SD cards. But even then, the largest playable file size would be a little bit less than 2gb.
Works on Analogue Pocket?
I think you'd be better off with an EZ Flash Omega or Junior. Both reviews are on my channel.
I converted all the roms but they don't show up on the list? The .gba files do show up but of course don't work, I'm so lost
Why is it that when I try to save the game the screen goes black and no text shows up?
I have never seen a supercard micro SD version of the super card the one that I have is a mini SD
I got one just today, and it also is Micro SD version, guess they upgraded them.
I was expecting the mini SD one.
@@MexicanRmz what site did you buy it on?
@@jaxsonbuckman7369 got mine from ebay
Does yours just say miniSD on it, but it takes a microSD card? They are different sizes. The photos of the kind with the Star Wars Boba Fett character on the label all say miniSD and show what looks like a miniSD card. The clear purple ones that say TF in the title say they take microSD, which is originally called TF.
But now where do you get the mini sd card
Thanks for the tutorial! Does this work for Pokémon games?
It also supports DS games when played on a regular DS or a DS lite
Nice video man I just ordered one of these. Question though do you still use it often? If so is it holding up good?
I don't play roms, so not really. And thank you!
ive used it for months, and its been working fine, and i use it as my main handheld
help after doing all the instructions the game still wont load. after loading it always came out blank and game wont start please help me😫😫
Does it work with og gameboy games?
I have one to another thing you can do is play nes games just make a folder name it anything you want open it drag in nes games on the carpet and drag the folder to the root of your sd card and play
Hey man do you know how to save GBC games on this? Only GBA games save with the L+r+b+select method
You must do the in-game save first, then you click L and R at the same time, click A on "save state" and press L, R, Select and A at the same time then click A in "Save in SD?".
I don't have computer can i do it in my android phone
my supercard is the micro sd too, but it doesnt read the sd, even if I convert games. I tryed everything and it doesnt work. can u help me?
my thing always gets a white screen after the gba starting screen I have the formatted everything and my sd card is 2gb help??????
ive heard there are some issues when it comes to loading and saving some games. Ive had my eye on this flashcard mainly because i want to play the gba fire emblem games and, as we all know, fire emblem is the type of game where you put hundreds and hundreds of hours and it would be a shame if the save file got corrupted or some other thing. Have you had this issue with any game or is that just with some games?
use save states real saves via saving in game work if i remember its only for 1 game at a time and if you save another game not via save state it will remove your the save from your other game also if battery dies in it you will not be able to save anymore
I play sacred stones on the super card and haven't had any issues.
The only games that I've had issues with is Pokemon where the save is 128kb, but its easily solved by just saving twice before I load the save to the SD. The game always says the save is corrupted and will revert to the previous one. By saving twice, it goes back to my first save. I'm guessing Pokemon keeps a backup of your save on the first 64kb and then the latest save on the second half of the 128kb savefile. Since the supercard only saves 64kb, the second(and latest) save gets deleted.
I have this super card since its first release ( years ago ) and my save file still there.
0:40 "I fixed all of them" BULLSHIT.
A real ROM has single-cycle storage access. This card has 4-cycle memory access. The best you can do with this hardware is burst access where first cell is accessed in 3 cycles and subsequent ones in a sequence in one cycle - but demanding games still don't work.
This is why games lock up on start when unpatched. At a bare minimum, the patcher modifies the ROM to use 4/4 timings on the memory access, this is sufficient to start a game. Additionally it modifies save type from EEPROM to SRAM, creates a SRAM file prefab and embeds a set of hotkey menus into the game to load/store savestate and SRAM.
6:05 "it also supports normal saves, not sure what that means". There is a single SRAM chip on the cartridge that is the same as used by the majority of genuine game cartridges for battery-backed save. Most versions of SuperCard have a battery to maintain the save in the same manner, but because they are intended to run more than one game (you add a bunch of ROM files on your SD-Card), the SRAM gets cleared every time you start a game - it's actually reintialised with a file from from SD-Card. After you modify the data in SRAM by saving your progress in-game, you also have to use the hotkey menu for "normal save" to copy the contents of SRAM to a file on SD-Card. Which is to say of course extremely stupid - instead they should have used a tag file.
The patcher app is junk too, it crashes and will sometimes patch fine, sometimes it will fail. Was thinking of writing a more robust and cross-platform patcher, but not sure it's worth the effort.
It is highly suggested to avoid the Supercard if possible. Get EZFlash instead, it's not too expensive either, though it is more expensive.
I've got a EZFlash Omega, works totally fine indeed. Don't know why anyone want to buy a cheap flashcard like the Super Card. If you have a AGS101 display in one of your gameboys or have a DS Lite and you want decent emulation , just save some money a few months longer and buy a proper FC.
im having performance issues in demanding games . any fix for this ?
Thank you thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart
Hey, recently I adquiere a super SD card. The thing is I follow all your steps buts when I try to play, any of the game appears in the main menu. Do you know how can I fixed?
I just received my SuperCard, looks exactly the same as the one in the video. It came with its own 2GB micro SD, preloaded with games and stuff.
However when I plug it in my GBA it shows just a blank screen. If I remove the card it says "NO SD card", which means the cartridge works... But doesnt seem to be able to read the SD card.
Anyone stumbled upon a similar problem?
I have same problem too and not yet got the solution....
@@teddyho3617 I got a solution.... Just bought a new SD card. It was quite hard to find a 2GB microSD locally, but I found it. It cost the same as a 16 GB card but it doesn't matter.
It turns out the original card that came with the cartiridge is actually a 4GB card with a 2GB partition. That's why it didn't work.
thats great ! tysm for the tut ! would that work for snes or nes games as well ?
Most games work providing you have the firmware185 bin on the sd too I found that was the only way to get the games list to boot and be able to play game Roms
Thanks for the video! I'll get one this year.
No problem! 👍🏼
I have days looking if it is possible with the supercard to emulate the movies that came out for gameboy advance video? I hope you can answer my question, I would appreciate it a lot
wait there's a Micro SD version? i only have the Mini SD version
have you tried turning a high capacity card into a Fat32 ?
Does the inside of the flashcard match an actual gba game cart? Thinking of swapping
No. I don't think it has screws in the same places and anyways you'd have to make a divot for the SD card because you have to press it in to eject it.
Hello
Is possible we use 4gb sd and convert to 2gb for use in supercard sd?
I try and don't work
Why isn't this available for the Switch? Should be the same principle and similar workaround but that's just me guessing.
How to make tilt controls work ?
Hey. I have a question about saving. I've been able to do the L+R+A+SELECT menu in most games, but some just don't have it. My main example is Mega Man Battle Network 1, 6, and Battle Chip Challenge. They're patched the exaxt same way as 2 through 5, and those work. Why is this?
Edit: I forgot to mention that I can't use the RTS menu (L+R+B+SELECT) either in this case.
I’m having the same problem. Can someone explain?
is it using battery in the cartridge?
can we still save the game even the battery dead?
Thanks for the video. Where do you check if there are new versions of the firmware or of the patching software? Thank you.
Its an older product. I don't think newer firmware will be released.
@@RetroGameCouch Yup I did check in the while and lol that firmware was released in 2010. I ordered a MINI sd version I hope it's gonna be fine.
How much GB limit allowed on GBA adapter ?
It also works on DS lite.
i changed the cr1620 battery because it was showing the run dry message on pokemon emerald, and it still shows me that message after battery replacement... is there a sort of patch for this?