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I would prefer to work with my GBA and Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, but I've also got a GBC and a Windows XP machine hanging around.

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Do you have some sort of way to interface the computer and the game cartridge already? – Raven Dreamer♦ May 16 '11 at 17:45
Are you asking about backing up files on your computer or asking how to back up your cartridge ROMs/savegames? – CyberSkull Sep 5 '11 at 1:42
Sorry for failing to reply sooner as I never got an email notification. @CyberSkull: Sorry for not clarifying; I meant my commercial cartridge game saves. I think I've almost got a working solution together. I'll update this when I get a chance. – Orion751 Oct 27 '11 at 2:56

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Hands down the easiest way that I have found is to get a Nintendo DS that has the Game Boy Advance slot (original and DS Lite), and a slot-1 flash cart.

After that it's just a matter of downloading some software. Linfox is great for that.

NOTE: I would stay away from the M3 solutions for this task because one of the better backup programs, written by Rudolph, was updated to single out the M3 and refuse to backup the saved game.

Alternatively, there are (or at least were) solutions –

solutions

– that will plug right into a computer. However, this is a much more technical, difficult process.

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