Hacking TTDS - DMA Mode?

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Well my TTDS arrived in the mail today!
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Going through the settings, I noticed something called DMA Mode. Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone explain this? A quick search simply yielded something about it running faster on compatible games... Thanks!
 
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I would assume it's a misnomer.

I guess instead of patching every read to the card to read from the card, it does some sort of patch at the beginning that sticks
 
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so hows the cart overall? i ordered mine 2 days ago for my sister so im wondering if theres any problems or anything extraordinary on the cart thats worth the nice price
 
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DMA (Direct Memory Access) allows devices to access RAM (Random Access Memory) directly instead of going through the CPU (Central Processing Unit).
 

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