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[sonknuck23]

Is there a fix or a way to make it so that GBA Games will not slow down?
It's incredibly frustrating to play SOnic Advance with the SuperCard : (

[dantheman]

Have you looked at the Fixing/Reducing GBA Slowdowns topic?

[hariboo]

Why ready i always that for the Supercard for GBA games there are slowdowns ?

[dantheman]

GBA games require lightning-fast responses from the ROM, which Compact Flash and Secure Digital cards cannot provide.  To run GBA games, the Supercard copies the game from the CF or SD card into its 32 MB of built-in RAM that should be fast enough to run the games.  The Supercard's RAM isn't quite fast enough though, so you get slowdowns.  Also, games must be patched so that they don't completely freeze when information is not supplied fast enough.  The M3 is more expensive but has faster RAM that reduces these slowdowns.

[hariboo]

Is this a general issue of the Supercard ( Mini sd ) ?
Also the latest minisd from the Supercard ?
Will there any been fix then because i like the Supercard due the price.
And i know that my Son also want to play that Sonic game

[dantheman]

It is a hardware problem and cannot really be truly fixed by firmware updates.  It might be improved somewhat, but the underlying issue is that the RAM is too slow.