Flash Advance Linker and Card - Page 8

Conclusion

Well, time to lay down our overall impression about the product. If you have been reading so far you have probably guessed it. The Flash Advance Linker and Card are two products that are really worth their money. For the price of three GBA games you buy a system which allows you to backup your cartridges and keep a copy of them in case the originals get lost, stolen or destroyed. Plus, if you are a serious coder, then you have the opportunity of creating your own Public Demos or games and then test them on the Gameboy Advance.

As you can understand, Nintendo is not exactly happy about the existence and availability of these two products on the market. If they haven't already done so, pretty soon they will be filing lawsuits against the manufacturing company and threatening all resellers to seize selling it. They will claim that it is an illegal product, because it can be used to make illegal copies of original GBA games. Oh sure... Umm let us think about this a little. Shouldn't CDRW drives be considered illegal? Aren't they used to make illegal copies of CD games and applications? How about photocopiers, which can be used to make illegal copies of books? How about scanners, or cameras? And what about cars? Shouldn't they be considered illegal since they can be used to run people over?

The keyword in this whole situation is one tiny little word. Three letters. 'CAN'. Yes, the Flash Linker can create illegal backups. Yes, the Flash Card can be used to play pirated games, scattered all over the Net. But it is up to the user, his responsibility, his self-respect, his honesty and dignity to decide which path he will take. So all that Nintendo claims is a bunch of crap. The problem is that Nintendo has some serious connections inside the IDSA. And that couple is capable of dragging anyone to court, even us for writing these few lines. When someone confronts a collosus like the Big-N, he knows he doesn't stand a chance. The biggest example is Bung, manufacturer of the GBXChanger and GB FlashCard, who got sueued and went down in flames.

So our advice is the following: Buy it, and buy it NOW! Tomorrow might be too late...