#139101 - eyeball226 - Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:01 am
I've pretty much decided to buy an R4 (and a microSD obviously), but I want to buy something for slot two that is both capable of booting DS homebrew (using the R4's boot slot two thing) and also be run in GBA mode for GBA homebrew. Does such a thing exist and if several exist which is the best? I have a very old EZ-Flash II Powerstar that's wearing out (and was never very good for homebrew in the first place). Any recommendations/advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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#139102 - Tikker - Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:10 am
either the M3 lite perfect, or the ez flash 3-1
the m3 lite perfect is a better card imo, but costs 3-4 times as much as the ez flash 3-1
#139104 - eyeball226 - Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:27 am
Ah, I forgot to mention, I have an old silver DS. I may get a DSL one day, but not any time soon.
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#139105 - calcprogrammer1 - Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:55 am
GBAMP or M3 (I own a GBAMP), SuperCard SD or CF all work in DS Phat (I have old silver DS too).
GBAMP is probably the cheapest and it is natively supported in libfat (no DLDI needed most of the time).
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#139106 - Tikker - Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:05 am
I know that the M3 lite perfect comes with a bunch of spare carts for colour swap, and 1 of them is usually GBA or DS phat sized
i THINK that the ez flash 3-1 is also available in gba/phat sizes, but I've never really looked
#139110 - dantheman - Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:47 am
| calcprogrammer1 wrote: |
GBAMP or M3 (I own a GBAMP), SuperCard SD or CF all work in DS Phat (I have old silver DS too).
GBAMP is probably the cheapest and it is natively supported in libfat (no DLDI needed most of the time). |
But that would not satisfy the "GBA homebrew" aspect, unless eyeball226 only wished to run the few GBA games that fit entirely into GBA RAM (known as multiboot).
| Tikker wrote: |
I know that the M3 lite perfect comes with a bunch of spare carts for colour swap, and 1 of them is usually GBA or DS phat sized
i THINK that the ez flash 3-1 is also available in gba/phat sizes, but I've never really looked |
As far as I am aware, both of those are correct. I know Phat-sized 3in1s exist, and I know GBA-sized M3 Lite shells exist, but I don't know if the shells still come included with the M3 Lite perfect purchase. An M3 Perfect MiniSD would sit flush in a DS Phat without needing the shell, as would a Supercard miniSD.
#139115 - calcprogrammer1 - Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:23 am
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But that would not satisfy the "GBA homebrew" aspect, unless eyeball226 only wished to run the few GBA games that fit entirely into GBA RAM (known as multiboot). |
Oops...didn't read the part about GBA homebrew...
So, that leaves you with the M3 series, the SuperCard series, the EZ-Flash, and others (G6, GBA Flash Carts, etc). I THINK the SuperCard CF (CompactFlash) is natively supported in libfat, I'm not sure because I don't own one. I also think it has RAM and runs GBA programs.
Also, with Slot-2 devices (when using any DS apps, not GBA), you need a passthrough device. The R4 can act as a Passthrough (actually, a nopass) but you might need to either remove the microSD for it to function (you have to on the Games n' Music), use a software passme (I found a PASSME.NDS that I use so I don't have to remove my microSD), or the R4 may have the option to hold down a button or a firmware setting for passme, I don't have an R4 so idk.
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#139119 - josath - Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:43 am
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#139131 - eyeball226 - Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:00 pm
I was under the impression that the R4 was the best at the moment. Oh well, now I'll have to look into it more.
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