Requires two GBA units - one with the game cartridge, the other with the e-Reader device, connected with a Link Cable, with the gray end on the second GBA. Linked to a GBA game: This is how the e-Reader was used so that content scanned from e-Cards is used to unlock flags for data on the cartridge (or even add new data not in the cartridge, usually stored to the save data file for that game - like Pokémon Gen 3 guest trainer data, F-Zero Climax developer ghost data, or SMA4 e-World level data) new content in retail GBA games like Super Mario Advance 4 and Rockman Zero 3 among many others.
Notable use includes NES Classics (often mapper 0 ones), Promotional event cards with nifty animations, and the Pokémon Trading Cards for example.
The e-Reader add-on is plugged into a GBA unit, and e-Cards are scanned with it. Standalone: The only mode supported by the initial Japan-only release (the second Japanese release, "e-Reader+", and the US release supported the other two uses).That second version was released under the name e-Reader in the USA and Australia. The e-Reader was originally released in Japan in 2001 without Link cable support (thus unable to link to other GBA/GC games), but that was added in a second version released in 2002 as e-Reader+ in Japan.
It has a LED scanner that reads paper cards with data printed on them, called "e-Reader cards" or "e-Cards". It was also slated for release in Europe, but the release of the device was canceled, though the (now extremely rare, and undumped) European cards had an accidental limited release. The GBA e-Reader is an add-on for the Game Boy Advance released in Japan, the USA, and Australia.
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