Nintendo DS Programming

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Tue 19 Sep, 2006 6:14 am

Liazon wrote:btw, any advice on how not to get scammed, phished, or any other bad thing happen to you when purchasing on the internet?

Ask someone with firsthand experience with the site in question to make sure it's ok.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Wed 20 Sep, 2006 9:10 pm

Memory card plus reader both arrived today, both work great

A much needed improvement to my mom's 128mb card

I'm still waiting for the m3 :/

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 20 Sep, 2006 9:38 pm

Damn, thats what happened to me but the other way around. I had MK4-Key and Supercard Lite, but no microSD card :S.

Post by **Patori** » Thu 21 Sep, 2006 12:25 am

Liazon wrote: Is Dualis the best DS emu right now?

I believe so. Don't quote me on that one.

Post by **DarkAuron** » Thu 21 Sep, 2006 3:03 am

Each emu has its own quirks, but Dualis is generally considered best for homebrew. It doesn't emulate commercial roms for conservative reasons.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Sat 23 Sep, 2006 4:21 pm

Got my m3 today!

One gripe: You have to convert everything to a special format. Converting takes for EVER. Or at least so it seems to me.

I'll shutup though it's worth it

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Sat 23 Sep, 2006 11:31 pm

new DS lite colors = yay!!!! I'd like a black one. Ya think a new nintendo handheld will be released 2 years from now?

Post by **DarkAuron** » Sun 24 Sep, 2006 1:26 am

A new one? Probably not. A third version of the DS? Probably. I do want a black Lite though, but theres nothing wrong with my original gray DS.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Mon 02 Oct, 2006 2:18 pm

In case anyone hasn't gotten an SD card yet for this(or anything really) there's a great deal going on at buy.com right now. You can get a Kingston 512mb SD card for free effectively with free shipping at buy.com. To get it, you need to get the memory card and something else(second item is to increase total order to $30, so find some item for about $1 to increase your order total). Use google checkout, as it gives you $10 off any order of $30 or more. Then, the mail-in rebate will give you a $19 back, so, $28.95 - 10 = 18.95 -$19 = free. Just make sure to select the free shipping. The only cost you would have is the $1 item you used to increase your order total, so it's a great deal.

Here's the link to the item on buy.com

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Sat 25 Nov, 2006 9:56 pm

whoo! I grabbed a black m3 perfect lite w/passcard3 and a 1gig micro sd for my ds lite. I plan to do some serious homebrew later on, but for now I'm too busy coding for gamebuilders (school club) rite now. Should I use PAlib or anything like that?

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Sun 26 Nov, 2006 4:01 pm

3FG would scold you for using PAlib.

3FG would say use libnds (or was it ndslib) It's a basic include, kinda like ti83plus.inc on the 8xp calcs.

btw, has anyone seen that new piece of hardware? It looks like a NDS cartridge, but it's for homebrew. I think it's a little linger than a normal cart because it has a miniUSB connector on it.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Sun 26 Nov, 2006 8:38 pm

Yeah that one has really high prospects. 512mb flash card built in. Even functions as a flash drive. Supposedly you can any pirated roms nearly 100% even local multiplayer.

Though for Homebrew im not sure. For one you don't have the extra ram that the others have, so anything that may need it, you don't have. Also how well does it work for saves in homebrew? Plus its expensive.

http://www.ds-x.com/cgi-bin/dsx/engine.pl?page=home

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Mon 27 Nov, 2006 12:48 am

It's not a good choice. It only has 512 mb of space and it isn't totally supported by homebrew. It does work well with pirated roms, but it doesn't hold as much as m3 or supercard.

Don't use PALib, use libnds. The best help you can get is from the people in #dsdev on irc.blitzed.org.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Mon 27 Nov, 2006 1:17 am

threefingeredguy wrote:It's not a good choice. It only has 512 mb of space and it isn't totally supported by homebrew. It does work well with pirated roms, but it doesn't hold as much as m3 or supercard.

Don't use PALib, use libnds. The best help you can get is from the people in #dsdev on irc.blitzed.org.

Doesn't hold as much? 512 mb seems like a a standard size. Unless you get your hands on those 2gb flash cards, but those ussually have speed or price issues.

I don't know it got rave reviews on gbatemp.
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=38183
The comparison says the homebrew compatibilty is nearly perfect. Its standard MSD so even linux and mac guys can use it.

heres its review

And this is what the review says its compatible with.
* BeUp - PASS
* DS Doom - PASS
* DS Organize - PASS
* Moonshell - PASS
* NDS Mail - PASS
* NESDS - PASS
* PicoDrive DS - PASS
* ScummVM DS - PASS
* SNEmulDS - PASS
* Snezzi DS - FAIL

That looks pretty good to me. The only down side is the price.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Mon 27 Nov, 2006 2:00 am

are you talking about sd cards? You can get 1gb and even 2gb ones for really cheap. If that's what you're talking about, I can post some deals on them.

For example, there's a 1gb miniSD card(with sd card adapter) for $5, shipped, on newegg