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DS Flash Equipment > SD to compact flash?

#105840 - Dan2552 - Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:03 pm

anyone tried one of those things in a supercard and does it work?

I do already have a compact flash card, but I hear SD is cheaper and my CF card casing actually split and I had to superglue it back together, its also bent a bit.

I'm considering SD because my laptop has an slot for SD, and it's just easier than carrying around my CF usb thing everywhere.

#105842 - zzo38computer - Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:36 pm

SD cannot be written to by software on the NDS, so you cannot save game and such things as that.
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#105848 - tepples - Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:51 pm

Dan2552 wrote:
I'm considering SD because my laptop has an slot for SD

Many laptops also have a slot for CF if you plug it into a PCMCIA CF adapter. Those are real cheap because it's just a pin-to-pin adapter.
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#105852 - Dan2552 - Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:52 pm

tepples wrote:
Dan2552 wrote:
I'm considering SD because my laptop has an slot for SD

Many laptops also have a slot for CF if you plug it into a PCMCIA CF adapter. Those are real cheap because it's just a pin-to-pin adapter.


It doesn't seem to have PCMCIA, it has some other weird card thing, I was a bit disapointed i couldn't fit my clik drive in when I got it.

Seeming as it's a CF-to-SD converter, would the software need to know the SD specifics, doesn't it emulate a normal CF?

#105866 - tepples - Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:05 pm

Dan2552 wrote:
It doesn't seem to have PCMCIA, it has some other weird card thing

If it's new, it likely has ExpressCard.

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I was a bit disapointed i couldn't fit my clik drive in when I got it.

You mean the clik of death? Be glad that you weren't more disappointed when you might have relied on it and lost data.
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#105883 - Dan2552 - Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:06 pm

tepples wrote:
Dan2552 wrote:
It doesn't seem to have PCMCIA, it has some other weird card thing

If it's new, it likely has ExpressCard.

so you recommend a compact flash express card? (i'll of course check what the slot is before i buy anything)

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You mean the clik of death? Be glad that you weren't more disappointed when you might have relied on it and lost data.

hehe. I use it to store all my drivers on ;) not really the most important data, I can always get drivers from the internet