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DS Flash Equipment > New official Nintendo flashcart?

#136216 - felix123 - Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:51 am

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BSkyB unveiled a joint venture with Sony yesterday that will enable owners of the PlayStation Portable
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to download a choice of programmes, films, as well as sports and entertainment videos, direct to their PSP via a wi-fi connection
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The company is likely to look at similar deals with other manufacturers, such as Nintendo, once this has got off the ground.
The Independent

Let's assume they are talking about the DS. They'll need something to store the movie on that runs in NDS mode to make this WiFi movie download service work. Will we see a new flashcart from Nintendo soon? Also, how practical is it to download a large movie file over the DS's slow WiFi connection?
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#136239 - Dan2552 - Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:16 pm

If an official one is coming, that is gold. I'd expect it to be top priority hacked just because it's official... Though saying that DS-to-DS wifi isn't even done.

#136266 - tepples - Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:35 pm

Hacking: Play-Yan was an official flash card, but was it ever really hacked?

Speed: If a 24 minute video is encoded at 256 Kbps (combined video and audio), a typical data rate for DPG, that's 46 MB. Downloading it at 1 Mbps over WFC shouldn't take more than 7 minutes, and one could pull down an entire season of TV that way by leaving the DS turned on overnight.
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#136269 - Lynx - Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:00 pm

tepples wrote:
Hacking: Play-Yan was an official flash card, but was it ever really hacked?


Was it released world wide, or only in select countries?
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#136280 - dualscreenman - Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:37 pm

If memory serves it was only released in Japan.
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