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DS Flash Equipment > Whats better an MK4 or a Passcard3

#87878 - gurgen2006 - Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:24 am

Hello, I have a question I am thinking of buying a Passcard3 instead of flashing my ds, I want to know if there are any bugs or anything bad that I should know before purchasing a Passcard3 with my M3 minisd. I heard its a perfect combination. What about the MK4 is that better then passcard? If so then in what way? I looked up the pricing for MK$ which is 50 dollars. However the passcard 3 is only 24 dollars. I see a big price difference, if you guys can help me it would be great. I don't want to buy a passkey 2 because it is awfully big and its mainly for people who want to flash their ds lite's. I want to run homebrow with the passcard only i dont want to update firmware because first of all the firmware might be buggy and 2nd im not a 100 percent i can fully flash it. Thanks, hope you guys can help.

#87911 - dualscreenman - Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:03 pm

MK's and the devkits that come from that company are generally overpriced.
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#87962 - HyperHacker - Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:14 pm

There hasn't been a major bug reported in FlashMe since V4, and flashing is easy on the old DS. Lite is apparently a bit more difficult, but all you really need to do from what I hear is use a piece of metal wrapped in electrical tape so that only the end is exposed.
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#87992 - Linkiboy - Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:59 pm

The MK4 can boot code from MK2/3, thats about the only extra feature

#88007 - KidBomba - Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:14 pm

will Passcard3 work on US DSLite? will I be able to load the flashme.nds with the passcard3 using an M3 Perfect SD?

I"m thinking of returning my passkey 2 and getting a passcard3 because I keep getting white screens from my passkey 2.

Am I doing the right thing?

#88078 - HtheB - Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:49 pm

KidBomba wrote:
will Passcard3 work on US DSLite? will I be able to load the flashme.nds with the passcard3 using an M3 Perfect SD?

I"m thinking of returning my passkey 2 and getting a passcard3 because I keep getting white screens from my passkey 2.

Am I doing the right thing?
no....
just try to flash your ds.. so you dont have to buy a passcard 3
but.. have you updated your Passkey2?

#88537 - lambi1982 - Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:29 am

I bought a a MK2 and it was a mistake ......

no freaking updates on the freakin thing. all my homebrew runs like crap..... well not all.

mostly things that write to the SDcart. CF 100X better.

I was always just hoping there was a software upgrade to make it a MKworkonafreakinDSlite2

DRNeo is holding out on everyone who gave him money....

just wants everyone to buy the friggin mk4... not fair
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#88538 - josath - Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:34 am

neoflash stuff has been a rip-off since the very beginning. the only reason it even exists is because they give away a ton of free stuff to homebrew developers, otherwise it would just be some noname brand that nobody talks about.

#88544 - lambi1982 - Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:00 am

I wish I knew that in the beginning.

You think there is anyway to reverse engineer their stuff to be better :)
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#89316 - Lynx - Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:58 am

Just go with whichever is cheaper to get it to your door. Either should only be used to install FlashMe anyway.
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