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DS Flash Equipment > Best Flash Card Of These? Pics too

#68722 - Red XIII - Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:14 pm

Which is the best one of these ?

http://tinyurl.com/cjm6x

Also,SD or CF? Pros 'n' Cons?

Thx...!

EDIT:

@HyperHacker: Thx,I'm all brightened up now!

@JaJa:Thx for the tip,used it!

Last edited by Red XIII on Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:29 pm; edited 1 time in total

#68725 - Red XIII - Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:26 pm

Hmmm,the link seems to be correct,but only half of it is selected...

Everyone,try copying the whole link and paste in an empty browser...

#68756 - HyperHacker - Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:25 pm

Red XIII wrote:
&coentrypage=search&f****=&a14=24218

Looks like part of the link got nicked by a word filter. :-(

Anyway, pros/cons of SD:
+Smaller
+Faster
-Most homebrew is designed for CF
-No firmware hacks currently available for GBAMP SD, if you're using it

CF:
+Compatible with nearly all homebrew
+Harder to lose ;-)
-Slower
-Easier to break (them little tiny pins)
-Somewhat outdated; CF will probably die out in a few years, while SD (if it's not replaced by something even better) will still be common

Both are about the same price, so it mainly depends what you want. If you want to use existing homebrew, get a CF and a GBAMP for best compatibility. If you want to write your own and don't care a whole lot about compatibility (IIRC current libs support both anyway, just that older programs were compiled with libs that don't), an M3 SD might be a better option. If you just want to use NES and Gameboy emulators, a GBAMP can do this without any hacking. (CF version at least, pretty sure SD can too.) If you want SNES emulation or the ability to play MP3s and movies, go with M3 SD (GBAMP's built-in music/movie playback suck, since they don't take advantage of DS's full power) and use Moonshell and SnesDS. And if you just want movies and music, there's an official adapter by Nintendo that does this (pretty sure it uses SD); like GBAMP, it's only designed for GBA, but it has an on-board MPEG decoder, so it should do a much better job.

Either way I suggest you also get a flash multi-writer, and a WMB-compatible wifi card if you intend to write your own apps. I have a Flash Genie URH722, which is very nice; reads and writes CF, SD, MSPro, MSC and SMC, sits in a 3 1/2" bay, adds 2 USB ports, and you can remove the actual reader and plug it into another computer's USB port. :-D For wifi cards any PCI (not USB) card with a Ralink RT2500 or RT2560 will work.

#68781 - JaJa - Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:44 pm

May i say www.tinyurl.com for future reference?
Rather than pasting/using such large url's that are prone to be eaten by the word filter.

#68923 - Red XIII - Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:20 am

I can't understand how "Most homebrew is designed for CF"... Aren't both CF and SD storage means? Or the difference is that they have different structure?

Anyway,I want to write my own apps,but I surely want to test other peoples apps,so I think http://tinyurl.com/bb92q would be a good choice,huh?

I already have a compartible wireless card with the modified driver installed (having the E3 2005 + various Jap demos surely is a privilege),so I just need to buy this and a CF card... :-)

#69011 - HyperHacker - Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:26 pm

The code required to access each type of card is different. Newer programs should be able to do both, but some of the older ones only know how to work with CF.