The Open Source Cartridge Reader is a great diy project for dumping your own roms and saves. If you order a kit with the surface mount components already installed, it's also a great beginner soldering project.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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The closest thing I ever used that backed up actual hardware was a Playstation 1 card reader. At the time I was backing up game saves and porting them to the ps2 for emulation or something i forget exactly.
It was wild to do something like that on your computer back then. A Sony memory card in your PC? Bonkers.
Once I extracted my Fire Emblem 7 GBA cartridge's save to keep stuff I had unlocked and play it elsewhere.
It was easy, I didn't need any special hardware beside a DS and a flash cart, and a bit of homebrew software.