Hacking Exclusive M3 DS REAL Review by AhTin

[berniethumb]

On the subject of micro SD High Capacity cards, does anyone know which ones were tested when the system was being developed? That brand would usually work the best. Does it require Class 4 or higher, so will the class 2 cards be just as fast?

I saw that you can buy a few different brands that are half as much as the SanDisk ones that are sold at the website that I bought my M3 Real from. I would check out Ebay for the best deals.

I think this one will be good http://www.samsung.com/us/news/newsRead.do...s&news_seq=3698

but not expect out til mid-08. For now, 6 GB is the largest that I can find.


I just preordered my M3Real tonight.

 

[Drackel]

Where did you Preorder yours from? Did they have the GBA pack as well?
Really looking forward to this cart!

 

[4saken]

Gameyeeeah have them in stock if you want to order from there. Realhotstuff have them for pre-order I think

 

[Drackel]

Thanks for the info... I will out my order in, as I need a nice setup for GBA games, and this fits the bill.

 

[berniethumb]

I pre-ordered mine from kickgaming.com. They came out to be $2 more expensive than Gameyeeeah but Kickgaming takes my crappy discover card and paypal. Gameyeeeah only takes visa or mc?! There was another site I remembered being in the running too. It was a Canadian company that had stars all over their background, but they didn't take my card either. Winsunx is another good site, but they are Chinese which makes shipping a bit more.

 

[4saken]

When since did Gameyeeeah not take PayPal?

"We are support Paypal, Paydollar, Google Checkout at the moment.
On the payment page, there are only paypal and paydollar available to selected. "

Google checkout saves you 10 dollars on first try doesn't it

?

 

[xcalibur]

nah, that was an offer which finished a while ago

 

[4saken]

nah, that was an offer which finished a while ago

Fuck, there goes plan A! Plan B- wait for DealExtreme like a cheap skate!

 

[PanzerWF]

4saken's Plan B is my Plan A!

Anyways, the M3 Real doesn't seem to offer anything too revolutionary IMO. I do like the bundle though, seems to be the most bang for your buck.

 

[4saken]

4saken's Plan B is my Plan A!

Anyways, the M3 Real doesn't seem to offer anything too revolutionary IMO. I do like the bundle though, seems to be the most bang for your buck.

Actually I just forgot about Plan B and went to Plan C - buy it at gameyeeeah using these gbatemp coupon codes (which have actually been leeched onto like a million other sites already). Problem now is that I didn't let it direct me back the website; so my order has not been registered :X shit

 

[Deletable_Man]

Woo. I'm gonna step out here and look like a gigantic noob, but anyway! I've never had a flashcard, always wanted one. Been waiting for a single solution that plays DS and GBA games rather easily, and this M3DSR seems like a winner to me if I understand it correctly.

My plan is to buy the thing and get a nice 2 or 4gb microSD card separately. Now this page here: http://www.gameyeeeah.com/m3ds-real-rumble...pack-p-812.html
seems to be the page I want. It says it comes with the Rumble Ram Pack, which I assume is a single slot 2 piece of hardware that both rumbles and has the ram expansion (which allows for GBA games right?). However it seems other packages on the site have them as 2 separate bits. That's causing me a bit of confusion. Any comments or suggestions are appreciated!

 

[4saken]

The Rumble RAM does not allow for GBA games. It is a single slot 2 device. You want the Perfect bundle (Has both the GBA and Rumble RAM packs)

 

[scoopbls]

I have the Perfect bundle (both the GBA and Rumble RAM packs)
I got a 4GB HCSD Micro. I have the roms, I copied the roms to the root dir. I tried putting them in a NDS folder too...
Both times I got a message saying

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[LANGUAGE ENGLISH]

No system file found!
put system file in
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Please help?! I am new to this...

The instructions as I expected are not good at all (just the back of the box). But if this works it's a cool device. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Drackel]

Have you DL the new M3 DS Real loader v2.5 beta and moved them files to the card?

Them are the system files that should have the need files to make the cart work. I know they work, as I use them on my G6 Real

 

[scoopbls]

Have you DL the new M3 DS Real loader v2.5 beta and moved them files to the card?

Them are the system files that should have the need files to make the cart work. I know they work, as I use them on my G6 Real

No I have not, I will try that and update. Do you know what dir I should put the roms in. For the NDS roms and teh GBA roms? I am just to new to this all...

 

[Xuio]

No I have not, I will try that and update. Do you know what dir I should put the roms in. For the NDS roms and teh GBA roms? I am just to new to this all...

NDS games in "nds" folder, GBA games in "gba" folder.

 

[scoopbls]

No I have not, I will try that and update. Do you know what dir I should put the roms in. For the NDS roms and teh GBA roms? I am just to new to this all...

NDS games in "nds" folder, GBA games in "gba" folder.

That worked, Thanks a lot! I love this device! Amazing

Just so you know the Micro HCSD clicks in, and clicks out of the M3DSR so you can leave the M3DSR in the NDS all the time when swapping Roms. 4GB is big enough though..
The M3DSR also clicks in and out of the NDS, like a game, but that is not as smooth as a game. It does "lock" in and needs to be pressed in to be able to be pulled out of the NDS, the spring action on the way out is not so great. Well mines not.

 

[MrGoomba]

I have a question about the GBA Expansion.

Does it allow you to save directly to the MicroSD instead of the battery? Either by an option or button combination? The EZ Flash V 3 in 1 Expansion doesnt, and this is a deal breaker for me. Anyone know?

 

[scoopbls]

I have a question about the GBA Expansion.

Does it allow you to save directly to the MicroSD instead of the battery?  Either by an option or button combination?  The EZ Flash V 3 in 1 Expansion doesnt, and this is a deal breaker for me.  Anyone know?

Game saves go directly onto the Transflash Micro SD(HC) for sure.

I have tested it. The all go in to the same NDS and GBA folder respectively for playing a NDS and GBA game
The save game file has a different ext to the rom *.nds *.gba. so you will know.

When you save a game, in fact when you start a lot of games for the first time. It says save file not found creating save file etc. I looked after and found these files on the SD(HC)

 

[OSW]

scoopbls - you sure you understand exactly what he is saying?
it's obvious that the saves are stored on microsd, but he is asking whether the saves are backed up to microsd from the battery on reboot, or directly written to microsd during gameplay...

then again you might have understood it perfectly, wherby i will apologise.