Metal Slug Advance to make use of E-Card reader.

I pray to God that Technos doesn't get any ideas for RCREX from this.

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Originally Posted by BenT

That's great, but you have to buy the darn overpriced cards.

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You don't have to buy anything. Spending money on something is an option, not an obligation.

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Originally Posted by AFX

You don't have to buy anything. Spending money on something is an option, not an obligation.

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"To get all the game has to offer ..." was the intended implication. And that's something I definitely want to be able to do when I pay for a game.

Get bent.

Zing?

Alright, I'll give it to you. Zing!

I wouldn't have given that to myself. It was pretty lame.

Ok, so I'm a little late to the party, but what does the e-card reader do?

The E-Reader is used by several first-party GC and GBA games for importing data like new textures, new levels, items, powerups, etc. Also, there are some E-Reader cards that have first-gen NES games on them, and you can play them on a GBA.

Metal Slug Advance doesn't use the E-Reader (or cards for the device) at all. There are simply hidden items called E-Cards scattered throughout the game, giving MSA a 'collect-'em-all' element that's very common to portable games these days. SNK chose a pretty bad name for the cards, so now people are confused.