#148798 - nipil - Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:09 am
Good morning.
When i offered my wife a DS, i bought myself an MK5. So far i'm pretty pleased, but i've yet to see any problems, as ive been mainly testing my own programs.
I tested Colors!, and PuzzleManiak, quite extensively. In PM, the only "problems" i saw was that i have to wait about 5 seconds between when i solve a puzzle and when the score screen appears. In Colors! (1.06h) the playback button just doesn't do anything, or maybe it's crashing. Save&Load do work, but quite slowly (about 5-8 seconds to complete). In both apps, i dunno if it's the card or not that's slowing/hanging the potential read/write proces. I haven't testes DSOrganize nor Moonshell, but these are reported to work flawlessly on this cart. I even tested with the roms dumps of the 2 game cartridges i own (Zelda and Worms), which worked nicely (afaik from the first seconds). Of course, i haven't tested any kind of multiplayer, as we only have on DS.
So. As she's using the DS and the linker to listen to music and play on the way to her office, i'm actually planning to buy another DS for me. And of course, a second linker ! Questions are :
- Are there any limitations on the MK5 concerning homebrews ? I'm not that of an expert concerning filesystem things, dldi (i know it does it auto), read or writing problems. My point of view at this very time is that it JustWorks(tm). Besides, i like the integrated memory, as you will never break anything, as the cart is a solid closed device.
- I read that the DLDI thing is read/write (is it?) but that the "write" part might be problematic. (besides, MK5 is not listed on dldi wii page...) I'd like to know if i'll run into any kind of incompatibilities on the MK5 as i'm skilling up on ds programming ;) Could someone explain me this please ?
- As a conclusion, should i buy a second MK5 or prefer another slot1 linker ? (slot1 referred, as i just ordered a slot2 motion kit)
Thanks in advance for any advice.
When i offered my wife a DS, i bought myself an MK5. So far i'm pretty pleased, but i've yet to see any problems, as ive been mainly testing my own programs.
I tested Colors!, and PuzzleManiak, quite extensively. In PM, the only "problems" i saw was that i have to wait about 5 seconds between when i solve a puzzle and when the score screen appears. In Colors! (1.06h) the playback button just doesn't do anything, or maybe it's crashing. Save&Load do work, but quite slowly (about 5-8 seconds to complete). In both apps, i dunno if it's the card or not that's slowing/hanging the potential read/write proces. I haven't testes DSOrganize nor Moonshell, but these are reported to work flawlessly on this cart. I even tested with the roms dumps of the 2 game cartridges i own (Zelda and Worms), which worked nicely (afaik from the first seconds). Of course, i haven't tested any kind of multiplayer, as we only have on DS.
So. As she's using the DS and the linker to listen to music and play on the way to her office, i'm actually planning to buy another DS for me. And of course, a second linker ! Questions are :
- Are there any limitations on the MK5 concerning homebrews ? I'm not that of an expert concerning filesystem things, dldi (i know it does it auto), read or writing problems. My point of view at this very time is that it JustWorks(tm). Besides, i like the integrated memory, as you will never break anything, as the cart is a solid closed device.
- I read that the DLDI thing is read/write (is it?) but that the "write" part might be problematic. (besides, MK5 is not listed on dldi wii page...) I'd like to know if i'll run into any kind of incompatibilities on the MK5 as i'm skilling up on ds programming ;) Could someone explain me this please ?
- As a conclusion, should i buy a second MK5 or prefer another slot1 linker ? (slot1 referred, as i just ordered a slot2 motion kit)
Thanks in advance for any advice.