I've always wanted to try reading cartridges. Are you using a guide or following any sort of spec sheet?
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I don't have either for the actual cartridge reading, only specs for memory mappers. I found a pinout of the cartridge and I'm just toggling the 6 control pins until things work to find out how to read data. I'm still not 100% sure how they work or their timings.
I'll make a writeup and YT video when I'm done documenting it. I couldn't find any good information about it online besides some writeups that seemed to leave out information on the control pins, or old sites on archive.org, so hopefully it'll help someone else.
Can't you at least dump GBA cartridges with a jailbroken Nintendo DS?
What's the fun in that?
It's no complete solution anyway.