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DS Flash Equipment > Datel Games'n'Music

#121614 - PlayerOne - Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:06 pm

Thought I'd start a fresh topic for this, to gather information in one place. Apologies if it's a duplicate, but I didn't see anything else.

My verdict is that it's not worth it at the moment, without DLDI support, not unless you want it for the video and MP3 support, which seems pretty decent.

I don't much like the UI, which is pretty but not very responsive. The double-tap to launch seems to not always work, and there appears to be no other way to do anything (no support for d-pad and buttons, for example). Also the device didn't start properly when I had a GBA game in slot 2, it just went to a white screen after the splash - I don't know if that's common to slot-1 flashcards? (Or even if it was just that game?) It bypassed the startup screen anyway, so there was no way to start the GBA game. (I should probably also mention that my (phat) DS has been flashed, although I suspect that's not the issue.)

I tried a few of the existing slot-1 DLDI patches, on the off-chance, but none of them worked.

Overall, I'll stick with my Supercard SD for now, and hope someone comes up with a FAT solution. I'm quite happy to experiment myself, but I don't really know what I'm doing.

#121616 - Diddl - Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:29 pm

I already started a thread for it: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12570&highlight=

it would be nice to find a solution for it, cause it works fine and the solution is cheap and available easy (in europe). but I fear there is no way, datel don't want such a solution.

we cannot dump the firmware.
we cannot change the firmware.
we don't know nothing about the hardware of this card (controller).

#121794 - Lynx - Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:11 pm

Did anyone send Chishm one yet? That is where I would start. Though, I guess we should ask him if he is willing to even take a look at it..
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#121852 - Diddl - Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:31 am

Lynx wrote:
Did anyone send Chishm one yet? That is where I would start. Though, I guess we should ask him if he is willing to even take a look at it..


I want to send him one. I've sent him a PM but no answer ...

#121867 - chishm - Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:09 am

Sorry, I've been really busy with Nitro Hax. Writing a GUI and XML parser from scratch in C++ isn't as easy as I thought it would be.
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#121879 - Lynx - Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:55 pm

Welp, I guess you guys are out of luck till he's done with that project.. Unless you can entice him to with something he really wants.. :) I bet a Wii would get him to take a look at it.. but then.. he wouldn't have time for any of these projects.. bad idea..
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#121893 - Diddl - Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:18 pm

one day Nitro Hax is finished ... ;)