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Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:42 am
by DRuM
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:49 am
by xer0s
Score!

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:53 am
by DRuM
Thank you, we agree on something, lol

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:39 am
by xer0s
Well I want one of my own. My buddy was showing me how he's learning Chinese on his. Pretty cool...
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:45 am
by bitWISE
I got myself a DSi a few months back. Lots of fun. Do yourself a favor and buy one of these:
http://www.acekard.com/
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:52 am
by DRuM
bitWISE wrote:I got myself a DSi a few months back. Lots of fun. Do yourself a favor and buy one of these:
http://www.acekard.com/
I've barely played it I don't know if I even need one of those?
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:53 am
by Deathshroud
bitWISE wrote:I got myself a DSi a few months back. Lots of fun. Do yourself a favor and buy one of these:
http://www.acekard.com/
Does this let you do what I think it might?
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:32 am
by lars63
Cool congratulations

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:55 am
by Scarface
wow, you got fucked
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:40 am
by scared?
DRuM wrote:
lol moron...
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:02 am
by Whiskey 7
Topic: Look what I got for my
birthday
Happy
Birthday there DRuM (for when ever

)
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:54 am
by Eraser
Why not a DSi then?
Got one not too long ago myself. Too bad R4/M3 adapters don't work with it.
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:57 am
by vesp
I prefer my DS lite for the GBA cartridge slot. Losing that is a major negative for the DSi imo...
CycloDS cartridge works quality for me... I believe it's very nearly impossible to find a non-faked R4 or M3 these days (ie. one that actually works).
Anyway, why you'd want one of those over a cart that automatically DLDI patches, supports SDHC etc (like the cyclo or ace) beats me :P
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:05 am
by Fender
I've been considering getting my daughter one for long drives. Are there any decent educational games? Basic reading/addition/subtraction, etc.
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:12 am
by Eraser
vesp wrote:I prefer my DS lite for the GBA cartridge slot. Losing that is a major negative for the DSi imo...
CycloDS cartridge works quality for me... I believe it's very nearly impossible to find a non-faked R4 or M3 these days (ie. one that actually works).
Anyway, why you'd want one of those over a cart that automatically DLDI patches, supports SDHC etc (like the cyclo or ace) beats me :P
M3 (and probably R4 as well) do contain DLDI and SDHC. Both functions have been introduced in a firmware update quite some time ago.
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:17 am
by Eraser
Fender wrote:I've been considering getting my daughter one for long drives. Are there any decent educational games? Basic reading/addition/subtraction, etc.
The [whatever] training games (such as Brain Training) are educational. I prefer Big Brain Academy though, as that's more game-like and full featured (with multiplayer as well) than the Brain Training games.
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:28 am
by Fender
so those cards let you run homebrew or what?
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:29 am
by Grandpa Stu
Fender wrote:I've been considering getting my daughter one for long drives. Are there any decent educational games? Basic reading/addition/subtraction, etc.
i was actually looking into math skill games for the DS not to long ago and for basic math skills there's more than enough games to learn with. as far as reading goes i seem to recall there being one game that fullfilled that catagory. at the very least you could get something like scrabble as long as it has a built in dictionary.
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:36 am
by vesp
Eraser wrote:vesp wrote:I prefer my DS lite for the GBA cartridge slot. Losing that is a major negative for the DSi imo...
CycloDS cartridge works quality for me... I believe it's very nearly impossible to find a non-faked R4 or M3 these days (ie. one that actually works).
Anyway, why you'd want one of those over a cart that automatically DLDI patches, supports SDHC etc (like the cyclo or ace) beats me :P
M3 (and probably R4 as well) do contain DLDI and SDHC. Both functions have been introduced in a firmware update quite some time ago.
Ok, I haven't really looked at them for a while.
I've known 3 different friends who've tried to buy R4/M3 from different suppliers (two bought R4's at the same time, one bought an R4 and then tried to buy an M3) and they've all not worked and not accepted firmware upgrades or anything (even attempted flashing the 'R4' cards with M3 upgrades after reading about fake-branded R4 cards that were actually using M3 hardware...).
Two bought cycloDS cards after this, worked straight out of the box. The other only recently bought an Ace card and it's also fine.
This was fairly recent btw... within the past year. Supposedly the supply of 'real' R4's dried up a while ago and most (maybe not all) of what is available out there is cloned/faked and has a good chance of being duff, unfortunately
Fender - yep, cards are for homebrew - running apps, etc (old console emulators ftw)
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:14 am
by Eraser
Grandpa Stu wrote:Fender wrote:I've been considering getting my daughter one for long drives. Are there any decent educational games? Basic reading/addition/subtraction, etc.
i was actually looking into math skill games for the DS not to long ago and for basic math skills there's more than enough games to learn with. as far as reading goes i seem to recall there being one game that fullfilled that catagory. at the very least you could get something like scrabble as long as it has a built in dictionary.
"My Word Coach" maybe?
Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:16 am
by Eraser
vesp wrote:Fender - yep, cards are for homebrew - running apps, etc (old console emulators ftw)
Yeah, I've got Quake 1 running on my DS

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:26 am
by Don Carlos
HBD dude

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:28 pm
by bitWISE
Deathshroud, yes and a whole lot more.
Eraser, yes the cards work but you have to buy a new version for the DSi. Acekard makes the best one IMO.
Fender, not just homebrew. You can download a ROM of any game out for the DS or GBA (they are very easy to get) and play them from the SD card. You can also play mp3s, videos, and display text files (books). They have other features like real-time saving (since its a rom you can just save the exact state of the game) too. So far I haven't seen a single game not work right, from Need For Speed U2 to various Final Fantasy to New Super Mario. The dashboard is really cool too and user skinnable.

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:48 pm
by Fender
maybe i should have said homebrew

Re: Look what I got for my birthday
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:46 pm
by DRuM
Whiskey 7 wrote:Topic: Look what I got for my
birthday
Happy
Birthday there DRuM (for when ever

)
Don Carlos wrote:HBD dude

Thank you. It was end of last month. I'm 18 now.
