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GBxCart RW v1.1

A device for backing up GB, GBC and GBA cart’s game ROMs,

save games to your PC and restoring saves from your PC.

Main Features

Backup games ROM to your PC

Backup save games to your PC

Restore save games from your PC

Supports Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy

Advance cartridges

Supports SRAM/Flash/EEPROM saves for Gameboy

Advance cartridges

GUI or Console interfacing programs

Other Features

Backup GB Camera (active images) to BMP with a one

click program called GB Camera Saver

GB Sachen ROM mapper reading support

GBA “24-in-1” Flash cart ROM mapper reading

support (may not work for all flash carts)

Gameboy Flash Cart supported/tested

Catskull –Gameboy 32Kbyte Flash Cart

Catskull / BV5 –Gameboy 2Mbyte Flash Cart

(See pictures on page 16 to check if your cart matches)

Read/Write Speeds

Gameboy

1MByte ROM Read

16s

32KByte SRAM Read/Write

32KByte Flash Cart Write

2MByte Flash Cart Write (writing 2MB)

Gameboy Advance

8MByte ROM Read

256Kbit SRAM Read/Write

512Kbit Flash Read

512Kbit Flash Write

~8s

64Kbit EEPROM Read

64Kbit EEPROM Write

13s

Specifications

Size: 54mm (L) x 57mm (W) x 9mm (H)

Voltage: Switchable between 3.3V (for GBA) and 5V (for

GB/C)

Weight: 18 grams

Requirements

USB Mini cable

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Contents

Quick How to Use

GUI Program

Setup

Inserting/Removing Cartridges

Reading the Header

Read the ROM

Backup save from Cartridge to PC

Restore save from PC to Cartridge

Erase save from Cartridge

Write ROM to Flash cart

Console Program

Setup

Inserting/Removing Cartridges

Reading the Header

Read the ROM

Backup save from Cartridge to PC

Restore save from PC to Cartridge

Erase save from Cartridge

Sachen ROM Mapper support

GBA Flash Cart ROM Mapper support

Raw I/O Access

Dedicated Console Programs

Gameboy Camera Saver

Console Flasher - Write ROM to Flash cart

Re-program the ATmega using an AVR programmer

Update Firmware on R3+ devices

Gameboy Flash Cart Supported/Tested PCB Pictures

Hardware/Software Revision History

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Quick How to Use

1. Before inserting the cartridge, select the correct voltage for your cartridge using the switch (GB/GBC use 5V while

GBA uses 3.3V) then connect the USB cable to ensure the correct voltage LED lights up. If the device isn’t

automatically detected, you will need to open up Device manager, find the “USB 2.0 Serial” device and update the

driver using the files in the \Drivers folder.

2. Unplug the device from your computer. Insert your cartridge to the device (make sure the cartridge sticker is facing

up) and connect the device again.

3. For the GUI interface, follow “GUI Program” steps or for the console program follow “Console Program” steps.

4. When changing cartridges, always unplug the USB cable from the device, swap the cartridge and then reconnect the

USB cable.

GUI Program

Setup

1. Download and Install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Packages (x86 and x64) for Visual Studio 2015 -

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53840

2. Open \Interface_Programs\GBxCart_RW_vx.x_GUI_Interface\GBxCart_RW_vx.x.exe and change the COM port to

match the COM port your operating system has assigned the device, this can be found in device manager.

3. Click the Open Port button; if the COM port text box turns green then it has successfully connected. If it turns red,

please double check the COM port and try again. Once the port is successfully opened, the port number and baud

rate will be remembered for next time.

You will see the mode currently select GB/GBC or GBA and the Hardware Firmware version.

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Inserting/Removing Cartridges

1. Before inserting the cartridge, select the correct voltage for your cartridge using the switch (GB/GBC use 5V while

GBA uses 3.3V) then connect the USB cable to ensure the correct voltage LED lights up.

2. Unplug the device from your computer. Insert your cartridge to the device (make sure the cartridge sticker is facing

up), connect the device again and click Open Port as before.

3. You can now read the header, read the ROM, etc.

4. When removing cartridges, always unplug the USB cable from the device first before removing the cartridge.

Reading the Header

Press the Read Header button and the cartridge information should show up (GBA carts can take 4 seconds as tests are

being performed to determine the ROM and SRAM/Flash/EEPROM sizes).

Make sure that the “Logo check” comes back as OK otherwise the cartridge may not be read correctly and you will

have to disconnect the device, remove and re-insert the cartridge.

If the cartridge information doesn’t match what you know to be correct, you can select “Cart” from the top menu and

select “Specify Cart Info” button to change the ROM size and RAM size/type.

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Read the ROM

You can now press the “Read ROM” button to download the ROM from the cartridge to your PC, it will be saved as

<Gametitle>.gb or <Gametitle>.gba.

We recommended verifying your Gameboy/Gameboy Advance ROMs and Saves by using emulators such as BGB for

Gameboy and VisualBoyAdvance for Gameboy Advance.

Backup save from Cartridge to PC

You can download the save game from your cartridge to your PC by pressing the “Save RAM” button, it will be saved as

<Gametitle>.sav. If a save file exists on your PC, you will be asked to confirm you wish to overwrite the save file.

Restore save from PC to Cartridge

You can upload the save game from your PC to your cartridge by pressing the “Write RAM” button, it will load the save

file <Gametitle>.sav. You will always be asked to confirm you wish to overwrite the save game on the cartridge.

Erase save from cartridge

You can erase the save game from the cartridge by pressing the “Cart” menu item and selecting “Erase Save”. You will

always be asked to confirm.

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Write ROM to Flash cart

Please check the first page to see supported Flash carts.

From the “Cart” menu, select “Specify Cart Info” and then from the Cartridge Type choose the Flash cart you have

that’s supported, the ROM/RAM size will automatically populate, then press Apply.

You will need to select the ROM file to write from the “Cart” menu, select “Select ROM File to Write” and then browse

to your ROM file.

Now you can press the “Write ROM” button to write the ROM file to the Flash cart.

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Console Program

Setup

1. Open the \Interface_Programs\GBxCart_RW_vx.x_Console_Interface\config.ini file and change the first number to

your COM port, e.g. 9 = COM9 and change the second number to the baud rate, default is 1Mbit (1000000) which

should work fine. Your COM port can be found in device manager.

2. Open \Interface_Programs\GBxCart_RW_vx.x_Console_Interface\GBxCart_RW_Console_vx.x.exe and the options

menu should appear.

Inserting/Removing Cartridges

5. Before inserting the cartridge, select the correct voltage for your cartridge using the switch (GB/GBC use 5V while

GBA uses 3.3V) then connect the USB cable to ensure the correct voltage LED lights up.

6. Unplug the device from your computer. Insert your cartridge to the device (make sure the cartridge sticker is facing

up), connect the device again and click Open Port as before.

7. You can now read the header, read the ROM, etc.

8. When removing cartridges, always unplug the USB cable from the device first before removing the cartridge.

Reading the Header

Press “0” and hit enter to read the cartridge information. Make sure that the “Logo check” comes back as OK

otherwise the cartridge may not be read correctly and you will have to disconnect the device, remove and re-insert the

cartridge.

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If the cartridge information doesn’t match what you know to be correct, you can press “4” or “5” and hit change the

ROM size and RAM size/type.

Read the ROM

You can press “1” and hit enter to button to download the ROM from the cartridge to your PC, it will be saved as

<Gametitle>.gb or <Gametitle>.gba.

We recommended verifying your Gameboy/Gameboy Advance ROMs and Saves by using emulators such as BGB for

Gameboy and VisualBoyAdvance for Gameboy Advance.

Backup save from Cartridge to PC

You can download the save game from your cartridge to your PC by pressing “2” and hit enter, it will be saved as

<Gametitle>.sav. If a save file exists on your PC, you will be asked to confirm you wish to overwrite the save file.

Restore save from PC to Cartridge

You can upload the save game from your PC to your cartridge by pressing “3” and hit enter, it will load the save file

<Gametitle>.sav. You will always be asked to confirm you wish to overwrite the save game on the cartridge.

Erase save from cartridge

You can erase the save game from the cartridge by pressing “4” and hit enter. You will always be asked to confirm.

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Sachen ROM Mapper support

You can use the “Other options” in console program to select ROMs to dump within a Sachen cart; the ROMs will be

dumped into their own file. You will be required to input the ROM starting address in hex and the number of banks.

For more information please check https://wiki.tauwasser.eu/view/Sachen_Mappers and

https://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1557

GBA Flash Cart ROM Mapper support

You can use the “Other options” in console program to select ROMs to dump within a GBA Flash Cart similar to the

“24-in-1” carts; the ROMs will be dumped into their own file named “FC_<Gametitle>.gba” after you select Address 2

and Address 3/4. Some ROMs may not work properly in emulators.

Once entering the menu, it will prompt you if you wish to automatically scan the addresses for Game Titles.

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You will be required to input the Address 2 and Address 3/4 in hex and enter the ROM size you wish to dump.

Raw I/O Access

If you wish to read/write to a special cartridge which the regular functions don’t support, you can access the raw I/O of

the ATmega8515L on board with the following COM commands. Commands should be sent as characters, a null

terminator byte (0) is used to determine the end of some strings sent. No responses will be returned except for

reading a PORT.

Enable/Disable common lines RD/WR/MREQ-CS/Reset-CS2 set high after each command

(recommended to disable so you drive these lines yourself)

To enable: M1 To disable: M0

Set pins as inputs/output

To set PB7 as an input: IB0x80 (include a null-terminator byte at the end)

The value set will be applied as DDR &= ~(setValue);

To set PB7 as an output: OB0x80 (include a null-terminator byte at the end)

The value set will be applied as DDR |= (setValue);

Set output low

To set PB7 low: LB0x80 (include a null-terminator byte at the end)

The value set will be applied as PORTB &= ~(setValue);

Set output high

To set PB7 high: HB0x80 (include a null-terminator byte at the end)

The value set will be applied as PORTB |= (setValue);

Read all pins of a PORT

Returns a byte representing all pins of that port, e.g. 128

To read PORTB: DB

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