I experienced some strange behaviour when trying to flash a game on the FlashBoy. Cart was earased properly but the flashprocess stopped right within a second – nothing was flashed. Using a Mac I first thought it had something to with my VirtualBox settings, but it turned out that my USB cable was too long (0.5m) – with the one that comes with the flashboy everything works like a charm.
All you need to do is setup a Windows (XP, for best) and the rest is a simple as setting your virtual xp to hibernation. Whenever you want to put a rom on your Flashboy it is a task of seconds, instead of rebooting you machine, switch to windows, install a game and than reboot to get back on the light sight of things, namely Mac OS.
I setup a shared folder that is mounted on the windows side. Putting roms in there (links doesn’t work) makes the file transfer between mac and xp very easy and confortable. Here’s a tutorial on how to set it up: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=3650000&fromSeriesID=365
Note that you will have to choose the USB Port where FlashBoy is connected in the Virtual Box settings and unplug and replug it when XP has booted.
I haven’t tried Fusion nor Parallels. Both feature a good coherend mode where windows runs transparently on you mac desktop. I believe it is eating up way too much resources (RAM, CPU) for such a small task, besides that both cost a couple of bucks. Virtual Box is free, though.
Great article… like usual from the reto gamers team. Bad thing about it, is that the hype started again and all ebay auctions are endig with ridicoulus $$$$. Anyway, that article made me dig out my VB again and play some rounds so :thumpup:
