I am not looking to start a flame war as I have both Gateway (purchased at launch) and an MT-Card. No denying the Gateway multi-rom interface is awesome and the exFat support is nice as well.
Still I have been using the MT-Card more recently and the main reason is I prefer the game saving method. I have two 4.5 3DS (one regular/one XL) and I like to be able to move my cart between units (I carry the regular on the road and the XL more at home/office). Saving the .sav file to the microSD just makes more sense to me and makes the MT-cart more transportable.
Also I started playing Fire Emblem (I know really late to the game but just was too busy last year to play it). With the permadeath on hard/lunatic modes that game is really unforgiving. Again I like the MT save method because it is much quicker to backup/restore your save. With Gateway you have to do a full power down and pop SD card to backup saves, then you are dealing with cart ID.sav which is a pain. With MT you can exit the game, pop MT, backup the .sav file by name and pop cart back in and launch game, and not have to mess with the 3DS SD and reloading launcher/emunand.
Storing on the microSD and using rom_name.sav is much easier to me. BTW I have had no problem moving saves between Gateway and MT (as long as you are using the same rom dump). Also one trick I use with Gateway to help deal with the stupid .sav naming convention is to create a .txt file with the rom_id_rom name.txt. That way I can easily grab the proper game save and not have to lookup the rom_id.
All in all they are both great solutions but if you have two or more exploited units then the MT card may be a better choice for you because of the game saves following the flash cart.
Still I have been using the MT-Card more recently and the main reason is I prefer the game saving method. I have two 4.5 3DS (one regular/one XL) and I like to be able to move my cart between units (I carry the regular on the road and the XL more at home/office). Saving the .sav file to the microSD just makes more sense to me and makes the MT-cart more transportable.
Also I started playing Fire Emblem (I know really late to the game but just was too busy last year to play it). With the permadeath on hard/lunatic modes that game is really unforgiving. Again I like the MT save method because it is much quicker to backup/restore your save. With Gateway you have to do a full power down and pop SD card to backup saves, then you are dealing with cart ID.sav which is a pain. With MT you can exit the game, pop MT, backup the .sav file by name and pop cart back in and launch game, and not have to mess with the 3DS SD and reloading launcher/emunand.
Storing on the microSD and using rom_name.sav is much easier to me. BTW I have had no problem moving saves between Gateway and MT (as long as you are using the same rom dump). Also one trick I use with Gateway to help deal with the stupid .sav naming convention is to create a .txt file with the rom_id_rom name.txt. That way I can easily grab the proper game save and not have to lookup the rom_id.
All in all they are both great solutions but if you have two or more exploited units then the MT card may be a better choice for you because of the game saves following the flash cart.
