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DS Flash Equipment > Recommended Slot 1 flash card

#129565 - DiscoStew - Wed May 23, 2007 8:15 pm

I've been reading through many of these posts, and it seems to me that either the R4DS or the M3DS Simply are the better choices. Although I am not at a point where I'd really need a flash card for my DS homebrew development, it would be nice to use my DS for other things, and when it does come time for real hardware testing, I'll have something already available.

Unless any other cards are recommended, which of these two would be best? Also, I have an old EZF Advance 256Mb GB card that I have used for my GBA development for a while, but the problem I have with it is that I can only upload my stuff via a link port through my worn-out GBA. Is it possible to use one of these Slot 1 cards for transferring my homebrew stuff to it, insomuch as to have it work as if I used it the other way? And would it even be possible to use my GBA card as external RAM?
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#129688 - DiscoStew - Fri May 25, 2007 1:37 am

Anyone?
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#129691 - tepples - Fri May 25, 2007 3:33 am

DiscoStew wrote:
I've been reading through many of these posts, and it seems to me that either the R4DS or the M3DS Simply are the better choices. Although I am not at a point where I'd really need a flash card for my DS homebrew development

In my experience, Dualis and other emulators are still so buggy that you need a flash card for Hello World. Are you still at the point where you are developing your game logic on the PC or GBA, your 2D graphics on the GBA, and your 3D graphics using PC OpenGL?

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it would be nice to use my DS for other things, and when it does come time for real hardware testing, I'll have something already available.

Unless any other cards are recommended, which of these two would be best?

These two cards are almost exactly the same.

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Also, I have an old EZF Advance 256Mb GB card that I have used for my GBA development for a while, but the problem I have with it is that I can only upload my stuff via a link port through my worn-out GBA. Is it possible to use one of these Slot 1 cards for transferring my homebrew stuff to it, insomuch as to have it work as if I used it the other way?

It depends. First somebody needs to figure out the flash writing protocol for EZFA, possibly by debugging the multiboot stub that the official client sends. If and when that's done, it would become possible to write a tool to copy a .gba file from the microSD card in SLOT-1 to the GBA card in SLOT-2.

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And would it even be possible to use my GBA card as external RAM?

No.
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