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DS development > Idea: Benchmarking Tool

#114717 - cheapo - Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:02 am

Hello!

I had an idea yesterday, but since I think I'm currently too newbie to do it by myself, I want to share my idea with you guys, and maybe someone gets interested.

The concept is simple: a benchmarking app for the flash carts. You would run the app using fatlib for you cart, select a file (preferably big), and the program would do some sequential and random read tests. It could do write tests too. And then, at the end, it would show your cart speed.

I think it would be great to compare all the market's flashcarts, combined with all sorts of flash memory brands, to see the real speed difference. And I'm not supporting piracy in any way, but I'd like to know, for example, if the fact that some users have problems in Castlevania: POR while others don't is really a flash memory speed issue.

What do you guys think?
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#114718 - simonjhall - Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:17 am

I seem to remember tepples already having a CF card speed measuring tool...
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#114797 - tepples - Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:53 pm

True, I made a speed test program based on an early gba_nds_fat which could presumably be recompiled for any device that supports gba_nds_fat. But it only runs in GBA mode, so it's not useful with SC Rumble or M3 Pro or SLOT-1 cards, and I don't know whether DLDI works in GBA compatibility mode.
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#114808 - cheapo - Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:33 pm

tepples wrote:
True, I made a speed test program based on an early gba_nds_fat which could presumably be recompiled for any device that supports gba_nds_fat. But it only runs in GBA mode, so it's not useful with SC Rumble or M3 Pro or SLOT-1 cards, and I don't know whether DLDI works in GBA compatibility mode.


Cool! I'll try to get the souce and maybe I can understand what it's doing...

Thanks a lot!
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