Hacking 2010 Xmas Version AK2i

[Stevetry]

so who selling this ?

 

[Etalon]

http://www.dscartshop.com - The OT

 

[Yuan]

This santa should have an eye patch.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Wow wee that's snazzy. They have time to put out a Christmas box but how long has it been since they've done anything with their card or official firmware.

Okay, you've gotta' be trolling, because I don't even KNOW how many times I've pointed out to you (yes you, specifically!) that if they updated the official firmware it'd be a waste of time/energy since AKAIO is taking care of it. A common phrase in the hacking community is "don't reinvent the wheel". Why update the old firmware when the new one has all the updates? AKAIO's not just game updates, it gets new features every so often (check akaio.net to read/make suggestions), if you'd check the changelogs.

As for the official team being dead... they released the 1.4.1 fix within a day (as ShadowSoldier pointed out). Hard for a dead team that never does anything to do that.

This is the last time I tell you this before I write this specific subject of yours off as trolling (and simply report it in the future as you must be posting it just to fuck with people).

Sorry but this card has some pretty long standing issues that team AK refuse to address like contact issues, gba 3in1 support problems and so on but they'd rather collect money, sub out firmware development to a group of fifteen year old kids. In short the only thing Team AK does is sell cards and I'm supposed to think that a Christmas box is cool? I'll tell you something there's a lot of R4's with more lively support but if I point that out and how non newsworthy a Christmas box is I'm going to be reported as a troll? Ok buddy go for it.

Just admit it, you pretty much hate every single card except for the one you own.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Sorry but this card has some pretty long standing issues that team AK refuse to address like contact issues, gba 3in1 support problems and so on but they'd rather collect money, sub out firmware development to a group of fifteen year old kids. In short the only thing Team AK does is sell cards and I'm supposed to think that a Christmas box is cool? I'll tell you something there's a lot of R4's with more lively support but if I point that out and how non newsworthy a Christmas box is I'm going to be reported as a troll? Ok buddy go for it.

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Just admit it, you pretty much hate every single card except for the one you own.

I own, like and use my AK2i as my main flashcart.
If you can't admit that most of what Pliskron said, discounting the R4 stuff, is the truth, then you're in denial.

The AK2i's (if not the AK2.1's as well) shell is thin. This makes it feel cheap and contributes to the connection issues. Also with the connection issues is the PCB itself (though this may have been fixed?).
I don't remember who, but someone on the board said this and it's the truth: You shouldn't need to add bits of paper to your brand new cart to make it work.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

I never had to. And it fits perfectly in my DSi XL. Not to mention, if the cart is thin, so what? What would you possibly be doing to warrant you using enough force to break it?

 

[Etalon]

OK. Let's use this thread then to asdress an official statement to Team Acekard!

Hi!

Please make a Premium AK2i for us. With a better shell. And a better sticker. We'll buy it.

Thanks!
Etalon.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

The only thing I'd like is a redesigned box. The flimsy one it came in, and the plastic or whatever, sort of sucked. But then again, I suppose that was a way for them to make the Acekard 2i so cheap..

 

[Pliskron]

Wow wee that's snazzy. They have time to put out a Christmas box but how long has it been since they've done anything with their card or official firmware.

Okay, you've gotta' be trolling, because I don't even KNOW how many times I've pointed out to you (yes you, specifically!) that if they updated the official firmware it'd be a waste of time/energy since AKAIO is taking care of it. A common phrase in the hacking community is "don't reinvent the wheel". Why update the old firmware when the new one has all the updates? AKAIO's not just game updates, it gets new features every so often (check akaio.net to read/make suggestions), if you'd check the changelogs.

As for the official team being dead... they released the 1.4.1 fix within a day (as ShadowSoldier pointed out). Hard for a dead team that never does anything to do that.

This is the last time I tell you this before I write this specific subject of yours off as trolling (and simply report it in the future as you must be posting it just to fuck with people).

Sorry but this card has some pretty long standing issues that team AK refuse to address like contact issues, gba 3in1 support problems and so on but they'd rather collect money, sub out firmware development to a group of fifteen year old kids. In short the only thing Team AK does is sell cards and I'm supposed to think that a Christmas box is cool? I'll tell you something there's a lot of R4's with more lively support but if I point that out and how non newsworthy a Christmas box is I'm going to be reported as a troll? Ok buddy go for it.

Just admit it, you pretty much hate every single card except for the one you own.

That's kind of a stupid thing to say because I own this card and I think it's good but I also think that how good the card is has nothing to do with the Acekard team and I wish they'd fix issues like bricking with some 256mb games. I'm just saying that if they lifted their finger to fix some of their outstanding issues I'd be a lot more impressed than if they spent their time designing a red box with santa on the cover.

 

[Chris_Skylock]

rocksoftonline.com yoohoo!!!! order this card NAOW!!!!

 

[Etalon]

That's kind of a stupid thing to say because I own this card and I think it's good but I also think that how good the card is has nothing to do with the Acekard team and I wish they'd fix issues like bricking with some 256mb games.

Oh well. It gets boring now.

It was 512 MB games.

And only if you'd have a mSD formatted with Windows XP (not: Panasonic).

It's fixed since Akaio 1.8.

Boring.

Really boring. Nothing understood.

 

[Pliskron]

That's kind of a stupid thing to say because I own this card and I think it's good but I also think that how good the card is has nothing to do with the Acekard team and I wish they'd fix issues like bricking with some 256mb games.

Oh well. It gets boring now.

It was 512 MB games.

And only if you'd have a mSD formatted with Windows XP (not: Panasonic).

It's fixed since Akaio 1.8.

Boring.

Really boring. Nothing understood.

still you make my point for me Team Acekard sat on their thumbs and didn't do anything about the problem. I guess they're far to busy pimping the latest box design. I've actually talked to those guys about some issues and the response I got was oh yeah we're working on it it'll be done soon. Needless to say that never happened and that was before Akaio was even a idea. So as a team I'd rate Acekard right at the bottom. They're just lucky someone skilled pick up development or they would be gone the way of DS Extreme.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

I agree that it sucks that they make Normmatt do everything, but if everybody is using his loader and not theirs.. what's the point y'know? I can see where Acekard is coming from.

I have to say, I'd love it if the cart was different color, Christmas themed as well. I'd gladly get it if it was available on ShopTemp.

 

[Etalon]

I've actually talked to those guys about some issues and the response I got was oh yeah we're working on it it'll be done soon.

I think there's no single person here that's going to tell you that Team Acekard is somehow fantastic, OK?

Acekard provides us with a very cheap hardware. And they did their job well in providing the 1.4 and 1.4.1 fixes very fast.

That's it.

The rest is done by some 15-year-old nerds.

 

[Chris_Skylock]

I have to give my thanks to Normatt, Smiths and the rest of the AKAIO team but I think that there were some sort of a talk between AK and the AKAIO.

I dont know what's happening but I know there's some reason. Still I will givemy FULL THANKS to Normatt and Smiths and the rest of the AKAIO.

Im still glad that the AK Team is alive with this Christmas BIZARRE promo. lol

The AK is like Nintendo, they provide cheap products that is competable from other brands like Cyclo and EZ Flash

 

[ShadowSoldier]

A- Are you sure he's 15?
B- Even if he is 15, he's milestones better than you at coding and all that jazz, and I'm going to wager a lot of people have more respect for him, than they do you.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Not to mention, if the cart is thin, so what? What would you possibly be doing to warrant you using enough force to break it?

Me: It causes contact issues.
You: So what if it's thin?
Me The contact issues
You: hurf durf, fanboy.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

...Didn't you say the card is too thin? I thought you were meaning, it can break easily.... my bad.

 

[Rydian]

[*]The problem for the bricking needed to be found, and it had to do with the cluster size (which was an issue with the iSmartMMS (or the other OEM-alike of it) as well, there was a news post about it. Cluster size is not anything a normal person knows about and is rarely an issue in the DS scene, so it took a while for the problem to be found. Now, if the cause of the problem was known and the team didn't do anything that'd be bad, but the cause of the problem was NOT known, it was an open bug (and has happened to other cards as I mentioned). You can't properly fix a problem if you don't know the solution. In this case specifically, it was a sporadic and rarely-occurring problem (with no easy second testing since the first occurrence results in a brick), which as techs know is the hardest and longest kind of problem to troubleshoot.

[*]I say AGAIN, the acekard team has no reason to push the current basic firmware for anything other than critical issues (such as the "bad batch" issue which was fixed as soon as the cause was found (see number 1, also see the AKAIO forums for the thread in which they requested members submit info about their acekard models so they could find which batch was different and how IN ORDER TO FIND THE PROBLEM, and the 1.4.1 update, which they fixed IN A DAY) because AKAIO came along and took care of the game updates, so they stopped work on the official because there's NO SENSE AT ALL IN DOUBLING EFFORT FOR THE SAME GAIN, therefore AKAIO became the "de facto" firmware and it's where the new features came in (again, check the forum for the feature submissions and discussions).

[*]This box design is very recent, the issues you're describing are not. Now, assuming that TIME FLOWS IN ONE DIRECTION (and that it wouldn't take more than a day or so to design a seasonal box for an already-established product), we can conclude that they were NOT sitting on their asses doing the box design when the issues you mention happened.
Pliskron, I'll say again your reasons are NOT based in fact.

• Number 1 assumes that the team is omniscient. That's not possible, even Apple has had serious issues with OSX, including a recent bug that would wipe all of a user's personal data.
  
• Number 2 is complaining that the team isn't doubling their effort for no gain. This is just fucking stupid, as it makes no sense for two different teams to work on two products which would end up doing the exact same thing for the same product, with no benefit for one team over another (as it's for the same product and neither firmware costs money).
  
• Number 3 assumes that time doesn't flow like it actually does, which is just grasping at straws.

Your reasons are not based in fact or logic, yet you continue to push them, and when responded to you make claims about things that didn't happen, such as this example from this very thread.

I point that out and how non newsworthy a Christmas box is I'm going to be reported as a troll? Ok buddy go for it.

My post didn't mention the christmas box AT ALL, but good try.

That's why I have come to the conclusion that you're trolling.

 

[Etalon]

Such discussions make me horny.

Need a BUY ME button on a Christmas AK2i. Now.