So I bought a DS... now what?

[trevelyn]

yeah the triforce emulator is stable enough. 

[Mace]

biased, maybe...but, return it and get a PSP.  Awesome homebrew and hacks for psp.  Disregard this if you have a psp.  check quick jump forums and www.psp-hacks.com if you want.

[MattGSX]

Yeah, that is biased. After the Viao fiasco, I refuse to support Sony. A company that so blatantly violates its customers' privacy is not a company that should be patronized under any circumstances.
It also doesn't have or utilize a touch screen, which is pretty damn useful. The touch-screen keyboard is MUCH better than that stupid swivel piece of shit.

[trevelyn]

Yeah, that is biased. After the Viao fiasco, I refuse to support Sony. A company that so blatantly violates its customers' privacy is not a company that should be patronized under any circumstances.
It also doesn't have or utilize a touch screen, which is pretty damn useful. The touch-screen keyboard is MUCH better than that stupid swivel piece of shit.

w0rd. psp is for metalica fans that don't have the extra brain power it takes to look at two screens. Ive come to really hate that stupid thing, and even looking at ps3's in the vg store... i just dont understand it.  Nintendo defines video games.  not Sony.

hey MattGSX have you seen this?? http://moonbooks.net/moonbooks/news.php

Theres free books on that link, that are txt files that you can read via Moonshell, or DSReader!  great stuff like william shakespeare, hp lovecraft, rene descarte, homer, Aesop, Albert Einstein, etc etc.. also theres old black and white movies there too all for free! (to get past the "R" section of the books you have to click "next" in the last "reference book details page.)   

[MattGSX]

Yeah. Fuck those fuckers at XM... er... umm....


Yeah. j00 should send me that Warioware link.

[mr_doc]

It needs a pdf viewer so I read read my 9 million downloaded ebooks

[trevelyn]

Yeah. Fuck those fuckers at XM... er... umm....


Yeah. j00 should send me that Warioware link.

you have AIM? i could msg you teh link tonight when i get home from work.  I will just set up a quick apache server to host it.

[trevelyn]

did the game work for you MattGSX??  i tested it before i hosted it.
anyways thanks for finding the MCM method, and pointing it out to me. it's such a relief to not use a donor cart and keep track of which donor cards held which saves states and such... blah blah blah..

well, it took 2 days but i made this list FULLY tested, all working fine no donor card except 2:

9-13-07 patching for new CF card, and Weak-Net NDS Server Update
===============================================================
DTL = Disable Turbo Load (Maximum Overdrive pather)
DSP = Disable Save Patch
MCM = Max Crass Method (Arm7 slip)
===============================================================
Donor Cart (needed to play) Games.
===============================================================
++New Super Mario Bros - DOnor Cart, Patch with MO only (no flags set)
   at first boot the error will ask you to erase the saved game that
   was previously on the Donor cartridge.  do it.
++Super Princess Peach - DOnor Cart, Patch with MO only (DTL+DSP)
================================================================
Non Donor Cart Games.
================================================================
Yoshi's Touch and Go! - No Donor, Patched with MO (no flags)
Space Invaders Revolution - No Donor, Patched with MO (no flags)
Super Monkey Ball! - No Donor, Patched with MCM and MO (DTL flag)
Mario Vs. Donkey Kong II - No Donor, MCM patch, MO patch (no flags)
   Save a couple of times the first time you boot it. try filling
   all three slots.
Tamagotchi CNX corner shop - No Donor, patch with MO (DTL flag only)
Mario Hoops 3 on 3 - No Donor, MCM Patch, MO Patch (no flags)
Metroid Prime Pinball - No DOnor, MO Patch (DTL flag)
Final Fantasy III - No Donor Cart, Patch with MCM, MO (no flags)
Guilty Gear Dust Strikers - No Donor, MCM Patch, MO (DTL flag)
Children of Mana - No Donor, Patch MCM, MO Patch (DTL flag)
Resident Evil - No Donor, MCM Patch, MO Patch (DTL flag)
Big Brain Academy - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags set)
ActioLoop DS - No Donor, Patch with MO (DTL flag)
Castlevania Portrait of Ruin - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL flag)
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags)
Death Jr. & teh Science Fair of Doom - MCM Patch, MO Patch (no flags)
Brain Boost Gamma Wave - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags set)
Sonic Rush - No Donor, MCM Patch, MO Patch (DTL flag only)
Pac-Pix - No Donor, Patch with MO (no flags)
Pac N' Roll - (get Apostraphe out of title or the Emulator won't find any games)
   For No Donor Operation, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL Flag only)
Touch Detective - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags set)
Deep Labyrinth - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags set)
TMNT 3 - No Donor, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Brain Age - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Touch Golf (nintendo) - Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Cocoto Racer (nintendo) - Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Nanostray - No Donor, Patch MO (DTL only)
Lunar Genesis - No donor, Patch MO (no flags set)
Top Gun - No Donor, Patch MO (DTL)
Brothers in Arms DS - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags set)
Happy Feet - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flag set)
Cookie and Cream - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flag set)
Advance Wars DS - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Worms Open Warfare - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Nintendogs (any of them) - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Dig Dug - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - No Donor, Patch MO (DTL flag only)
Mage Knight - No DOnor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flag set)
Need For Speed Carbon - No Donor, Patch MCM, Patch MO (no flags set)

================================================================

The 4GB card was worth the 109 bucks, its fast and holds ~80 DS games/150 books/250 SNES games/250 NES games/AND bunch of mp3's.   

[mr_doc]

I use supercard/superkey/sd and all the games work. Without a donor cart. The snes emulators won't work for shit with it, but nes and gba do. That's all I've tried so far.

[trevelyn]

I use supercard/superkey/sd and all the games work. Without a donor cart. The snes emulators won't work for shit with it, but nes and gba do. That's all I've tried so far.

whats the speed like for microsd? the cards are obviously cheaper than cf cards, thats a plus!

[mr_doc]

Speed is perfect for sd. I would say 100%. Don't know about micro sd but I imagine the same.

[MattGSX]

Yeah, the backup worked beautifully.

The more I look at them, the more I don't like Supercards. I'm not sure why, but they just don't do it for me.
A friend is using GBA Flash, which has wonderful rom support, but the firmware is teh sux, the memory is expensive, and it's slow as HELL to flash the card.

My 2gig was about $25. It reads a little slow, but I've yet to find a game that I can't run because of the speed. It did, however, make dsLinux a bit of a drag (as does not having RAM = no virtual terminals) but meh.

I'm pretty pissed off, though, because my school changed their server to https-enabled devices only, which makes the DSO browser and bunjalloo both worthless. DSHobro works, but I don't have a local dedicated server (it's slow as hell using the remote server to run the server app, otherwise I'd ask you to, trev).
Somebody is working on a wifi config device that runs as a stand-alone app, which will (in time) allow us to by-pass a game cart to modify the Nintendo WFC and (hopefully) save more than 3 connection profiles. I wish I could find the name of the app, now. 

[trevelyn]

you guys should try the new Tingle [from Zelda] RPG, its very funny.  And the Rythem and Notes game that makes an acoustic guitar emulator.  very cool.

[MattGSX]

MCM site is down. There goes my ready supply of pre-patched... erm... back-ups.

New games have a stupid CRE protection enabled, which requires swapping out the arm 9, but the donor arm9 I wanted was on the forums. damnit

[trevelyn]

oh shit, i thought about swapping the Arm9, but i couldnt get any donor Arm9's to work in them..
i want canvas curse, and lego star wars II damnit! if you get the Arm9 can you PM me plz? - thanks.