DS Flashcarts

Post by **nateup2** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:35 pm

The R4 doesn't read GBA roms. I didn't think any of the DS slot ones did.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri May 23, 2008 12:39 pm

nateup2 wrote:The R4 doesn't read GBA roms. I didn't think any of the DS slot ones did.

I believe that is correct. At least until we get a GBA emulator for the DS.

Post by **vlame** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:03 pm

racketboy wrote:I believe that is correct. At least until we get a GBA emulator for the DS.

there's no point for this to come to fruition (same reason no one ever made a ps1 emu for ps2), just buy a slot 2 device. ez 3n1 is only $20 shipped.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:09 pm

vlame wrote:
racketboy wrote:I believe that is correct. At least until we get a GBA emulator for the DS.
there's no point for this to come to fruition (same reason no one ever made a ps1 emu for ps2), just buy a slot 2 device. ez 3n1 is only $20 shipped.

But with most GBA carts, can't you only put on one game at a time?
Plus they don't even hold as much....
And they are more expensive....

Post by **nateup2** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:55 pm

racketboy wrote:
vlame wrote:
racketboy wrote:I believe that is correct. At least until we get a GBA emulator for the DS.
there's no point for this to come to fruition (same reason no one ever made a ps1 emu for ps2), just buy a slot 2 device. ez 3n1 is only $20 shipped.
But with most GBA carts, can't you only put on one game at a time?
Plus they don't even hold as much....
And they are more expensive....

There are GBA flashcarts and there are NDS slot 2 flashcarDs. The GBA flashcarts are what you are thinking of, I believe. They just use a small amount of on-board flash memory and are only used for GBA games. The NDS slot 2 flashcarDs have expandable memory and play GBA games as well as NDS games, but require some pass device for the NDS games. Also I think I remember hearing of compatability issues with some NDS games.

Its been a while since I was into any of this, so somebody who is more current double check me.

Post by **vlame** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:09 pm

if you want good gba/ds compatibility.

get a super card lite micro sd (im not sure if it comes in SDHC) and a passme (action replay/super key) or flash your dslite. easiest solution. i dont own a ez 3n1, i will want one soon tho.

now my CF ot GBA with super key is a slow speed card (yoshi's island ds, cooking mama 2 and mario kart ds don't work).

Post by **D.D.D.** » Sat May 24, 2008 1:05 am

vlame wrote:if you want good gba/ds compatibility.

get a super card lite micro sd (im not sure if it comes in SDHC) and a passme (action replay/super key) or flash your dslite. easiest solution. i dont own a ez 3n1, i will want one soon tho.

now my CF ot GBA with super key is a slow speed card (yoshi's island ds, cooking mama 2 and mario kart ds don't work).

See that's the thing, compatability. The R4 with the Toshiba 2GB TF card I got, plays everything on the DS, everything that's good IMO, and everything I want to play~
http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/R4_compatibility_list

Post by **nateup2** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:46 am

I never came across a game that it wouldn't run.

I guess if all you were concerned with was NDS and homebrew, you would want to get the R4 or Cyclo, a slot 2 device with pass if you need to play GBA roms. One of the GBA only carts would be kind of a silly purchase, I guess.

FYI... my R4 had some sort of mystery error message when booting moonshell. It never caused me any problems but was just an annoying imperfection. It may have just been that version or even that specific unit.

Post by **nightwalker** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:11 am

Pullmyfinger wrote:
nightwalker wrote:
Pullmyfinger wrote:Whoa, never heard of the EZ flash before, does it have a Micro SD slot or does it read from the card on slot 1??
Reads from the sd card on slot 1

Thats the only downside but with a 2 gb one you can have 20 ds games and like 40 or more gba games. For me thats more than enough.
Will that thing take clean GBA roms?? I have 2 GBA flash carts and they both have to go through a painful process with loading software evey time I have to switch games

clean roms

Just put them in there and run them with rudolphs 3 in 1 software and voila your done.
http://www009.upp.so-net.ne.jp/rudolph/ ... 1_ExpPack/

its on version 1.9d you put it in the folder of roms it runs like a ds roms you would be surprised of how easy is to use it.

Edit:

Sorry for the late replies is just that the forum is so active lately that its hard to keep up with the post. I remember when it was just only us 25 members. That was easy.

But its for the best now we have people from around the world with an incredible knowledge.

Post by **Tithis** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:24 am

vlame wrote:
racketboy wrote:I believe that is correct. At least until we get a GBA emulator for the DS.
there's no point for this to come to fruition (same reason no one ever made a ps1 emu for ps2), just buy a slot 2 device. ez 3n1 is only $20 shipped.

Many people would say the same thing about a Gameboy emulator for the GBA, but yet we have Goomba
http://www.webpersona.com/goomba/