What is the Gameboy SmartCard? It's an awesome device you should
get if you enjoy Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. Below is a picture.
You simply plug in a USB cable from your computer to this rewritable
cartridge and load whatever you want one it. It can hold multiple games
at once. It has 64 megabits (8 megabytes) to hold your games. Best of
all it's relatively cheap atleast at the time of this writing. Kitsch-Bent
sells them for $39. That is where I bought mine from. However there are
some limitations and issues to address. The cartridge isn't emulating
the mappers known as MBCs in the Gameboy world. It's instead like a
MBC5 with Master Registers
which the majority of games don't care about. However due to how some
games are programmed they may unintentionally or sometimes purposefully
write to the Master Registers
which have no write protection option and they will get trashed. The
game will ofcourse crash. Others write zero to the bank register and
this behavior is different on the MBC5 versus previous versions and can
cause a crash if the game actually intends to see bank one instead of
zero. Myself and others took up the task of
patching some of the games that have these problems so they can be
played on the SmartCard. Fixes available are listed below. They fix problems the games have running
on the SmartCard. So if you're having trouble running a game and it's
in the list below then you need a fix for it to work properly!
Absolutely no ROMs or copyrighted material is available from this site.
Patches only.
I have written a new menu for the cartridge as well. The new menu is
superior to the old one because it offers save game management so you
can have multiple saves stored on your cartridge at once. The original
menu only allows 1 save at a time. My menu will let you have many saves
and you can change your games stored on the card without affecting your
ability to access your save data later on.
Tip: If you play a Super Gameboy game while using the multi-cart menu
you will not get the SGB palette and borders after selecting the game
in the menu. Just reset the SNES system and you will.
SmartCard 64M Menu by: MottZilla
Fixes
By: MottZilla
- Battletoads in Ragnarok's World (U)
- Bonk's Adventure (U) [unsure if required]
- Bonk's Revenge (U) [S] [unsure if required]
- Bubble Bobble Part 2 (U)
- Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge (U)
- Donkey Kong GB - Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (J) [C][!]
- Donkey Kong Land III (U) [S][!]
- Gargoyle's Quest - Ghosts'n Goblins (UE)
- Gauntlet II (U)
- Legend of Zelda, The - Link's Awakening (U)
- Mario's Picross (UE) [S]
- Mega Man Xtreme 2 (U)
- Mission Impossible (U) (M3) [C]
- Mole Mania (U) [S]
- Nettou Samurai Spirits (J) [S]
- Pokemon Card GB2 - GR Dan Sanjou! (J) [C]
- Revelations - The Demon Slayer (U) [C]
- Robocop Versus The Terminator (U)
- SeaQuest DSV (U) [S]
- Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (U)
- Star Wars (U) [unsure if required]
- Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (U) [unsure if required]
- Star Wars - Super Return of the Jedi (U) [unsure if required]
- Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (UE) (V1.2)
Fixes
By: Great Hierophant
- Asteroids & Missile Command (U) [S][!]
- Game & Watch Gallery (U) (V1.1) [S][!]
- Kung-Fu Master (U)
- Megaman V (U) [S][!]
- Pokemon - Blue Version (UE) [S][!]
- Pokemon - Red Version (UE) [S][!]
- Pyramids of Ra (U)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (U) [!]