#36639 - atomicmonkey15 - Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:10 pm
Hey.. i understand that there has been tremendous progress in the development of running homebrew games off the DS. But i was wondering, when can a consumer expect a DS Flash Cart. to go mainstream?
#36642 - dagamer34 - Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:41 pm
When there is enough information for someone in China to manufacture them.
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#36645 - tepples - Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:53 pm
Unfortunately, homebrew products for game consoles tend to become commercialized only once someone figures out how to unlawfully copy proprietary programs using them. Perhaps once the knowledge of how to "dump" commercial ROMs spreads and somebody makes a patch for Nintendo's libraries to make them load assets from GBA ROM rather than a DS card, then the HK manufacturers might introduce a commercialized passthrough.
It's sad that only pirates can provide the economies of scale to support a market for affordable homebrew tools.
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#36657 - atomicmonkey15 - Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:26 am
so as an estimate - would u say in the matter of months, or years?
#36659 - Darkain - Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:42 am
| atomicmonkey15 wrote: |
| so as an estimate - would u say in the matter of months, or years? |
itll be available on July 21st, 2005...
no, seriously tho... we cant just go and throw out a date for when things will be commercially available. the sooner the code is cracked, the sooner itll come out, thats about all i can say.
if you *really* wanna work on home-brew, figure out how to make your own pass-thru device, or hack the wireless, like others are doing... because... *SOMEONE* has to do it!
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#36665 - s4uc3m4n - Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:43 am
Actually, to pose a question... what are the odds that the old code for the I/O which you claim may be in alternate use are acutally in use through the GBA port itself. In standby the system does recognize both slots as active and can even detect what type of information is in one of them, what if the GBA slot can actually cross communicate with the DS itself.
Could the GBA port actually just be a com port for the DS? Or is this a totally out there concept? If not... I may start some experimentation...
#36667 - netdroid9 - Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:39 pm
"Could the GBA port actually just be a com port for the DS? Or is this a totally out there concept? If not... I may start some experimentation..."
Option pak.
#36676 - dagamer34 - Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:09 am
| netdroid9 wrote: |
"Could the GBA port actually just be a com port for the DS? Or is this a totally out there concept? If not... I may start some experimentation..."
Option pak. |
But the thing is, there aren't any official "option paks" available for us to look at.
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#36678 - darkfader - Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:27 am
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#36681 - tepples - Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:42 am
| darkfader wrote: |
| "Please replace code cartridge with option pak" and vice-versa when it wants to load files :) |
Do you remember Pak Swapping on the N64? The memory card and the vibration accessory fit into the same slot on the controller.
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#36686 - netdroid9 - Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:25 am
Can you put a GBA cart and a DS cart in at the same time?
#36687 - Darkain - Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:26 am
| netdroid9 wrote: |
| Can you put a GBA cart and a DS cart in at the same time? |
yes, this has been answered a bajillion times actually. Feel the Magic uses it to unlock features.
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#36689 - netdroid9 - Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:29 am
Good.
The flash carts are for GBA, right? Then where is the need for cart swaping if option paks fit in the GBA slot?
#36693 - mymateo - Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:09 am
| tepples wrote: |
| darkfader wrote: | | "Please replace code cartridge with option pak" and vice-versa when it wants to load files :) |
Do you remember Pak Swapping on the N64? The memory card and the vibration accessory fit into the same slot on the controller. |
Yes, I do very well. I also remember a rumble pak that had a slot to put your memory card into so that you could use both at once. Hopefully, that won't ever become necessary. Hopefully, Nintendo will FINALLY have learned that "Hey, people don't like it when we give them an either/or option, and force them to choose between two things they may want equally". Seriously, I love Nintendo, but somebody has got to slap some sense into them if they botch it up one more time.
C'mon "N", once more... I dare you...
#36701 - Sebbo - Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:33 am
| Quote: |
| Someone with an EFA-linker flashcartridge saw a message about rumble when setting the alarm clock. |
actually, it was a GBA movie player, the one that uses CF cards for storage. and even stranger than getting the message about a rumble option is that i haven't been able to recreate it since, so it might have just been a fluke. has anyone with a GBA rumble cart managed to get this message?
#36711 - eyeball226 - Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:36 pm
My DS asks about rumble with the alarm, without fail, if I have my EZflash 2 PS carteridge in.
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