My point is that I really don't think it reflects the objectivity of the original review. I mean, back when shaunj66 did the review, everything was working OK, and now it is not that everything got wrong, it's just that the team's public relations are at their worst point yet....

In my opinion, and this goes to the GBATemp crew, I think you should consider creating a "buyer's guide" rather than "reviews" if that is what you are suppose to reflect, I mean, you can take out the scores on the reviews and just post them on the reviewers guide, in that way you can update the guide regularly.
What would happen if the R4 factory indeed stops making the carts? will you re consider the cart score?.

Just an opinion. And no, I'm not against or in favor of any groups of teams. I want to be as objective a possible, that means my opinion also applies to the other cart reviews.

Thanks.

 

Hey, u are right!
I too think that its wrong, and what the guy said below me, he is truly right.

 

the ds-x fw releases are really slow, but also since the card is out, they didnt actiually brought much improvement (no mac support, no extra features -skinapps are useless to me, no skinning support, one of the biggest weapons of ds-x = user programmable fpga chip is still unused... ds-x was one of the first carda, but now it cant hold on with the competitors which offer more for less money, i think it is fair that it gets its score changed, cause when the review was written, the situation was very very different

 

For what it's worth: I bought a DSX based solely on the review I read here. I reckon it ought be changed to reflect the fairly annoying problems it currently faces (skin support/developer support & latency/no fpga uses as of yet/over priced/mac updater/etc/etc) along with the developers' "anti-piracy" attitude noted, as other newcomers comparing their first-buys using this site could be saved from falling in the same pit.

If they sort their life out in the future, fair enough, but for the moment the DSX in no way currently deserve a 9.5, newcomers are better off with any number of other options.

stefer: Mods are active on the forums, keeping it "clean" etc, but there are hardly any posts from the developers and "higher-ups". It took weeks before a response regarding the arm7 problems showed up, and that was very much a "piss off pirates"-esque response, even to posts that were merely looking for reassurance in their "premium" "future-proof" product as opposed to ROM talk.

 

Totally agree. The review should quote DS-Guru's "We aren't going to RUSH a fix, even if it's been two weeks now and every other cart team on the planet had a fix 3 HOURS after LoZ showed up. If you are a pirate you can go F yourself" at the top of the first page, so that people know that they will be obsolete every time Nintendo changes their copy protection, until the team feels like making a fix for a bunch of 'naughty pirate scum'.

And remember, it's "Not DS-X's fault that resellers advertise it as 100% compatible with ROMS."

 

I would be really, really, angry if I read a bunch of shining reviews for a DS-X, and then had to find out the hard way about all it's problems and the team's CHOICE not to fix their own device. Also, I don't think it is a matter of agreeing or disagreeing; the pooch has been screwed. As far as the team is concerned, the DS-X has no problems at all and everything has been done perfectly. I wouldn't consider that "two opposing viewpoints" like whether global warming exists or not. Of course any wrongdoing is going to be denied; at this point it's expected.

 

exactly. why do we write reviews? we, are at least I, write them for other people to read, digest, and decide which is best. If my scores are wrong and/or inaccurate, it's rather counterproductive isn't it?

 

Please tell me where someone got banned for nothing and I will personally look into it

I dont want to say much about this thread because I feel its going to turn into a flamefest, However I will say Voltz has really good points.

 

No people get banned for not following the rules. Anyway if you want to talk about this please pm me because I dont want to take over voltz thread

 

these are incompareable, ds-x could still be improved and it could all the functions all the other cards have, but the fw releases doesnt add much new features