What is Reddit's opinion of Flash Boy Cyclone (v3.1) Cartridge Dumper Flasher for Game Boy DMG, GBC & GBA?

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Generally, all cart dumpers will dump both game ROM and SRAM (where game saves) chips. Here's a version of the flash boy that explicitly says it does in the label.

Also, since I've already mentioned other options in a similar post last week, I will just quote my response to that user here:

>I would advice against live-swaping the battery like someone else recommended. If you don't know what you're doing you could lose your save.
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>There are many backup devices for dumping games, that also double as save backup devices. Some of the most popular ones are GBxCart RW, Joey Jr, Sanni Cartreader and the Retrode. *
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>All of them can dump your GB saves, so go for whatever is the cheapest or available to you.
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>The Sanni Cartreader is an open hardware project that you build yourself, but you can often find online stores that sell them pre-built.
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>* Emulation/FPGA consoles can also do this, but they are pricier than standalone cartridge dumpers.

Heh it's a life saver.

So yeah myself I've been replaying EVERY Pokémon game I own since childhood and transferring everything I could unto the newer games before Bank is shut down.

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1. I have Pokémon Silver, so I bought a restored GBA console and a GBC save/rom reader (Something like the Flashboy but they are not user friendly, keep that in mind). What I did was play the game on the GBA and when done with it, extracted the save with it and put it in the 3DS VC version of Silver, from there, I could just transfer them to the bank. Do keep in mind you need to change your cartridge's battery since they will have run out since 2000.
2. From the GBA games (Firered, LeafGreen, Ruby, Emerald) I used the GBA backup tool after installing it to the R4 card and a DS Lite. With it as I mentioned earlier you can read and insert saves. Used it to discover what my SID is in Ruby and Emerald for shiny frame manipulation, and injected the event tickets into Firered (there, shiny manipulation isn't a thing, so I shiny hunted for Deoxys, I got it in 2512 soft resets luckily enough) and Emerald. I also transfered mons from Colisseum and XD by getting a HDMI adapter for my Gamecube and a link cable, thankfully my Gamecube still worked just fine.
3. In the 4th gen games you can also shiny manipulate the frames without modifying anything, but again you may need to use the R4 card or a homebrew 3DS to read what your Secret ID is to do so, but without injection or modification themselves involved.

Those are just some of the stuff you can do with the R4 card or Flashboy and whatnot. In short, to move games from games that are not forward-compatible, be able to discover what your SID is, and gain access to GBA/DS events you may have missed out on.

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I hope this was clear and whatnot but yeah this is what I did during 2021, just gotta complete Crystal and Leafgreen now and will be ready for when Bank shuts down, specially after shiny hunting the stupid Firered Deoxys (I lost the event Deoxys from back in the day by trying to clone it, so shiny hunting it in that same cartridge felt good).

I found this on Amazon. Although the label looks different it seems like it’s the same product. The listing has the following links: User Manual and Software in English