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Nintendo DS

How do you go about sticking downloaded ROMs on a cartridge to work on DS?

Click dis.

That was quick.

Cheers Fionn.

Fionn is a master pimp that fucks Irish pets in front of their owners.

Just thought I'd bump this cos I got a DS Lite for my birthday yesterday (yay!) and I'm buying one of these flash doohickeys. What I need to know though is, what's the difference between the various "media adaptors" (linkers?) that are available, do they all work?

The reason I ask is, I have my eye on the Supercard Lite because it matches the NDS perfectly and its reasonably priced. Having said that, I've spotted much cheaper adapters and there's also one called the M3 which is twice the price but appears to support movie files and mp3 playback - So, would the M3 be recommended for those reasons or would I be just as well off getting the Supercard and a copy of Moonshell or similar for my MP3 playback?

Also, how easy is it to dump several roms to a flash card... Do these linker things support that or do I need to use one of those multi-boot tools to shove a menu on the front-end and patch the roms to work with it?

What memory capacities do the various adaptors support? Should I get one that uses SD cards instead of Mini (or Micro) SD?

So yeah... Whilst I've found titbits all over the Internet and could probably work this shit out, nobody seems to have done a comparison of the various adaptors, so if anybody has any insight, please post here

Also, I'm assuming I need a Passkey to trick the NDS into thinking that it has a normal cart running... Would a normal NDS cartridge work just as well or is the Passkey also used to store NDS game saves or bypass other stuff as well?

... There, not too demanding am I?


::EDIT:: Too late, I decided to grab a Supercard Lite with Max Media Launcher and a 1gb MicroSD card... If anybody comes along and tells me how shit it is, they'll be banned; where the fuck were you when I asked the question?

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Not the "Supercard Lite with Max Media Launcher and a 1gb MicroSD card"!!!!!!!!!!












Just kidding I never got round to buying the DS. I borrowed my sons gameboy advance (for when I'm working away) and bought Metroid Zero Mission (which has restored my faith in games after several years of relative gaming wilderness)
Gameplay, that's what it's all about. I will be buying a Urine next.

Could you give a quick guide on how to do the ROMs to DS?
I've not really got the time to look into it in depth myself, what with my alcoholism and THC inhaling habits.

just to let you fuckers know, I got my Supercard Lite, MML and 1gb MicroSD on Monday (hence why I haven't posted as much this week ) Its fuckin' super!!

For starters, it makes any MP3 player look a bit cack due to the minty goodness that is Moonshell (or DSOrganize for that matter). It loads roms in about half a second (no kidding!) and they play at full speed without any slowdown as far as I can tell, including games that are known to slow down badly on other "Media Adapters"

Highlights so far...

1. New Super Mario World
2. Moonshell (especially being able to close the DS and continue listening to MP3s, like a giant iPod )
3. Finding out that the "Brain Training" game reckons I have the brain of an 80-year-old
4. Electroplankton
5. Snowboard Kids
6. After patching, roms save directly to the MicroSD card

Lowlights...

1. Lack of EQ on any MP3 playback software (I'm sure some kind person will write one)
2. Wifi is WEP only thus far, no support for WPA (and WEP was cracked about 50 years ago so I aint using that shit on my network)
3. Knowing there are loads of great Wifi tools available such as VNC, POP3 email and more but not being able to use them due to the reason above
4. No visualisations on MP3 playback software

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3. Finding out that the "Brain Training" game reckons I have the brain of an 80-year-old

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snoochie boochies

So, am I the only member of the forum with a DS and one of these "Media Adapter" whatsits? You faggots are letting me down

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I have the original ds.Been playing new super mario bros quite a bit .Wish i'd waited for the lite version.I was thinking of getting one of them adapter thingys.They sound good.How much did yours cost neversoft?
I suppose its an investment.lets me try before i buy with some of the games.

I got the Supercard Lite (£35) and a Max Media Launcher (£15)... Uses MicroSD cards so I grabbed 2x1gb transflash cards to go with it, one for roms, one for MP3

The vast majority of roms work perfectly although some of the very recent ones will need to patched with the next release of the patching software (you have to patch roms to work with the Supercard, as is the case with all of these flash linkers/adapters)... The way I understand it is, roms are distributed as straight dumps and the patching is to fix the savegames etc to work with whatever your flash cart is.

If you can, sell the DS and get a DSL with the Supercard addon, the one that uses MicroSD... As far as I know its the only one that runs all games without slowdown (I've tested all of the roms known for slowdown and all are fine). You'll need a semi-decent MicroSD card too, grab a Sandisk or similar not "generic wank number 42"

Just to recap on what is needed:

1. DS Lite
2. Supercard Lite MicroSD (front-loading MicroSD slot so you don't have to continually remove the Supercard from the DS)
3. Decent MicroSD card, preferably 1gb or more, formatted to FAT (not FAT32)
4. A "Passthrough" cart for the NDS slot, such as Max Media Launcher or a Superpass/Passkey
5. A big pile of roms

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great stuff.appreciate that.

just got a DS lite today. Got back from honeymoon last night and thought, fuck it im treating myself. Now i cant get her off the fucker.

just gonna have a mooch around for some cards and stuff and will repost when ive found what i want.

i used to do all that shit on my PSP but then I upgraded the firmware for Katamari Damacy

so now I'm waiting for an eboot loader for 2.71
I'd get a DS but I'm afraid I would be bored with it after a month.

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ok, just got the Supercard Lite for £35 and Datel Max Media Launcher for £10, now just got to get a decent microSD card.

Is Kingston any good? found a Kingston 1gb MicroSD for £18. Or am i better off paying a few more quid for Sandisk?

edit:: ended up ordering the Kingston card (if all else fails i can use it in my mobile).
Cant wait!!!!!

And i am now addicted to New Super Mario.

I'm starting to get very tempted to give it a try for myself, can anyone recomend a decent shop to order from?

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try thinking of ATI as Christina Aguilera and Nvidia as Christina Aguilera in the "Dirty" video

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Didn't want to start a new thread for this.I got a leaflet from ebay through the door yesterday saying that If i spend £50 or more on one item then I will get a £10 off.
This doesn't seem just restricted to me so I thought I would share it with you guys.
Anyways i thought it might be handy in this thread.
This is what it says on the back of the card.

1.select and buy the item you want on ebay.co.uk ensuring that the seller accepts PayPal.Minimum prchase price is £50 to qualify for the offer and the maximum discount is £10.The coupon will expire on 21st September 2006.

2.Pay for your purchase with PayPal and enter the redemption code CUDDLYTOY1 when prompted to during the PayPal payment process.The email address you registered for your ebay and PayPal accounts must be the same in order to redeem your coupon successfully.




I had one of these coupons before and it was £5 off if i spent £25.
I bought an item that was £19.99 and the postage was £7 so I thought cool thats over £25 but i didn't get my discount because its only the purchase price that you get the discount on.
I was a bit pissed off but thats the way it goes I suppose.I thought I'd better tell you about that incase you make the same mistake.
Anyway I appologise if the coupon doesn't work but having a code like CUDDLYTOY1 makes me think that anyone wanting to use the code can do so.
All the best
olskool

@ JFresh

A 2.71 Downgrader has been released - no need for GTA UMD it runs off a tiff exploit like MPH's Origanal Downgrader.

Combine with DEVHOOK 0.46 and you can do all that , and fully emulate 2.71

Check out http://ps2nfo.com for the files needed (you need to register but registration is free)

Also has some DS Stuff, but not a lot

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Originally posted by antihero
ok, just got the Supercard Lite for £35 and Datel Max Media Launcher for £10, now just got to get a decent microSD card.

Is Kingston any good? found a Kingston 1gb MicroSD for £18. Or am i better off paying a few more quid for Sandisk?

edit:: ended up ordering the Kingston card (if all else fails i can use it in my mobile).
Cant wait!!!!!

And i am now addicted to New Super Mario.

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Originally posted by sailorboy
@ JFresh

A 2.71 Downgrader has been released - no need for GTA UMD it runs off a tiff exploit like MPH's Origanal Downgrader.

Combine with DEVHOOK 0.46 and you can do all that , and fully emulate 2.71

Check out http://ps2nfo.com for the files needed (you need to register but registration is free)

Also has some DS Stuff, but not a lot

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