Must-Have for serious Game Boy players
For Cart Flasher for GameBoy
I bought this product a few weeks ago and I've explored it enough to be able to review it.
First things first, I can say that the shipping service worked very well: in exactly one week after the seller notified the shipping I received the Cart Flasher. I just found the shipping costs pretty high for such a small and light object even having tracking (which stopped to update the informations once it went to Madrid) into consideration, hence why I did not classify the shipping service as being perfect.
The Cart Flasher has a phenomenal 3D printed shell that does protects the device for small accidents so I can definitely recommend people to spend extra to have the shell, it is worth it (especially if you are clumsy). The product does not come with a MicroUSB cable but anyone can get one easily. I had no issues with the installation of the drivers and the software itself. However, the documentation could be more user-friendly as I am certain that not every future buyer knows certain terminologies or other concepts about the Game Boy software/hardware and can be a little lost when starting to work with the Flasher for the first time. I personally had some trouble to figure out how to successfully inject SAV/RAM files back to the cartridges as there was nothing explaining me that in the troubleshooting, and I did not even have a response from the seller after messaging it (hence why I only gave 1 star to the Communication: my contact was ignored). I eventually figured out how to do it but I would definitely recommend the creation of a quick-start guide for future buyers to have more clear instructions of how to fully take advantage of the flasher for strandard use. Compatilibity-wise, the Flasher worked with all the 11 games (Pokémon are included in the list) without any issues.
To keep it short, despite of minor issues I am very satisfied with the product. If you are among the slice of European Union players who are scared to lose all your efforts done to your Game Boy battery-powered saves you will definitely need this. It is worth noting that this is the best alternative I found opposed to others that are recommended online but are currently in highly galloping prices!
