# Installer ems-flasher avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de ems-flasher pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ems-flasher
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ems-flasher
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:ems-flasher
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ems-flasher>
- **Version:** 0.03
- **Résumé source:** Software for flashing the EMS Gameboy USB cart
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://lacklustre.net/gitweb?p=ems-flasher>
- **Docs amont:** <https://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher/ems-flasher-0.03.tgz>
- **Généré:** 2026-07-10T07:20:53+00:00

## exécutables

- ems-flasher (cli)
- ems-flasher (alias)

## Dépendances

- libusb

## Dépendances de compilation

- pkgconf

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-10
- version du gestionnaire: 0.03
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher/
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Historique du projet et usages

ems-flasher is a command-line utility for reading and writing the EMS Game Boy USB cartridge from Mac OS X, Linux, and other libusb-capable systems. It exists because the original cartridge software was Windows-only.

### Historique du projet

The official page describes the EMS USB cartridge as useful hardware for Game Boy development and play, then explains the gap: the supplied software only worked on Windows. ems-flasher was created as portable flasher software for Linux, Mac OS X, and similar systems.

The project page shows an old-school workflow: build with make, run the binary directly, browse the gitweb repository, and consult project-hosted documentation and FAQ pages. The homepage was last updated in January 2013, after the small 2011 release series.

### Historique d'adoption

Adoption was niche but concrete. The homepage lists testing on Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, and notes that FreeBSD carried it in the ports tree as comms/ems-flasher. Credits mention contributors for Mac build help, SRAM reverse engineering, OpenBSD testing, device detection, and FreeBSD port maintenance.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users flash ROMs with a write flag, dump ROM or SRAM contents with read mode, select banks, print ROM headers, and increase output with verbose mode. That made it useful for retro development, save backup, and moving homebrew or test ROMs onto real Game Boy-compatible cartridge hardware.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

ems-flasher is a classic tiny hardware package: the value is not a big ecosystem, but keeping one specific USB cartridge usable from Unix-like systems. It is exactly the kind of tool package managers preserve for retro-computing and hardware-repair workflows.

### Chronologie

- 2011-03-21: Version 0.01 released.
- 2011-03-24: Version 0.02 released.
- 2011-08-25: Version 0.03 released and listed as the latest version.
- 2013-01: Official pages show their last update dates.

### Related projects

- Related areas include the EMS Game Boy USB cartridge, libusb-based hardware access, the FreeBSD comms/ems-flasher port, and Game Boy homebrew or cartridge backup tooling.

### Sources

- <https://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher>
- <https://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher/download.html>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** ems-flasher
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ems-flasher.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/ems-flasher.yml)


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- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
