Acekard R.P.G. loader 4.01 released & Open Source!

[Rankio]

If you only play single-player, yes. Download play is important for people that have friends with DSs though and fromw hat I heard, D.P. with the RPG is a joke.

How is it a joke? It barely is even out yet.

 

[Seraph]

As for the things that keep the RPG from being the best: You're absolutely right. The same goes for every single cart. out there: if only they had the features to make them the best, they WOULD be the best!Â

Yes, but they do intend to add those features and once/if they do it will be the best cart then.(unless the M3 Real has something more) So how is the cart so bad? It's still too early to tell. And only one site is actually selling them right now...

It's not like you can easily add internal memory on an R4 or CycloDS Evo or make slot-2 cards play roms without patching. Some features are hardware specific...

 

[go185]

Just got a message from Bamboogaming saying that my RPG shipped! Should be in my hands in 14 days!

 

[iwakura]

seeing that you own a cycloDS, where do you think that belongs in the rankings, alastair? I'm just curious.


Where do you think? Number one.

I read everything I could find about the available cartridges and purchased based on what DS flash cart. plays DS games the best. If that makes me ignorant, I'm sorry

but I will never accept from anyone that a card with inferior compatibility (R4/ARPG) is better.

I didn't get my CycloDS because I heard that it had as wonderful support for download play as the other options.

oh. in your previous post you said R4 can be first and RPG can be second, so...

 

[Alastair]

How is it a joke? It barely is even out yet.

By way of the fact that it has terrible support.
I don't judge how well a feature works by how long the cart.'s been out either.

Yes, but they do intend to add those features and once/if they do it will be the best cart then.(unless the M3 Real has something more) So how is the cart so bad? It's still too early to tell. And only one site is actually selling them right now...

It's not like you can easily add internal memory on an R4 or CycloDS Evo or make slot-2 cards play roms without patching. Some features are hardware specific...

I intend to re-evaluate my opinion once they do fix those things. If they do, it will be the most feature-rich cart. out there (good luck to them - I'll buy it!).
It's not too early to tell. Unless you can foretell what the cart'll be like, we can only judge it by what it can do now which is perform inferiorly.
The amount fo places to buy them isn't going to change the cart. at all. I don't see your reasoning.

QUOTE(iwakura @ Sep 24 2007, 06:01 PM)oh. in your previous post you said R4 can be first and RPG can be second, so...

No, I didn't.

"The R4 certainly is one of the best, no-ones denying that.
It's the second best and the Acekard can hope to be the third best."

 

[recover]

In addition to the features available, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement text file support, both read and write (like TxtWriter).
I think it would be awesome since I remember how tedious it was for me before I found TxtWriter, had to plug the microsd card in my comp every time I wanted to change a config...

 

[OSW]

In addition to the features available, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement text file support, both read and write (like TxtWriter).
I think it would be awesome since I remember how tedious it was for me before I found TxtWriter, had to plug the microsd card in my comp every time I wanted to change a config...

there was always DSOrganise... and it handles it better than txtwriter anyday.

 

[go185]

I just looked at the system files (not the source code), and noticed that it comes with 2 DLDI files (one for homebrew on NAND, one for homebrew on TF card).

And since the 2 DLDI files are in the folder that gets put on the root of the NAND, looks like the RPG has auto DLDI patching!

 

[asusboy]

FCR's AceKard RPG Review
http://flashcartreviews.com/xoops/htdocs/m...makale.php?id=6
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1175162zsamW9qg

 

[recover]

I just looked at the system files (not the source code), and noticed that it comes with 2 DLDI files (one for homebrew on NAND, one for homebrew on TF card).

And since the 2 DLDI files are in the folder that gets put on the root of the NAND, looks like the RPG has auto DLDI patching!

Auto-DLDI patching has always been an advertised feature on their homepage.
It's a pain without it these days, especially with this card, it wouldn't be especially nice to have to repatch the rom if you moved something from the microsd to the nand memory.
It would be nice if a driver which could access both the NAND and the microsd would be made available, that would at least require the developers to start using different paths (like /nand and /microsd), or perhaps making / standard for the nand memory and /microsd on top of that, making it possible to use standard paths.
It would be quite difficult to engineer tho, since almost no homebrew allow you to configure where you want things to go.

Ideally I would think that all homebrew developers should adapt and put all the config files in a unix-style manner, like all the configs go in /etc with a .conf extension, and that you should at least be able to configure where all the other files belonging to that homebrew will be stored, etc.
I think this will be very difficult to achieve though.

 

[Rankio]

How is it a joke? It barely is even out yet.

By way of the fact that it has terrible support.
I don't judge how well a feature works by how long the cart.'s been out either.

Again, how can it have terrible support when not even in people's hands yet? By that basis, R4 has terrible support because it hasn't fixed the ARM7 bug. I'm not trying to attack you but you should really have some patience before making such judgments.

The packaging reminds me of the G6 Lite package. I bet all these things are made by one main company and smaller companies pay for certain options and sell the cart as their own. There are too many similarities between all the carts out there, some alot more obvious than others.

 

[Raisingod]

It's not too early to tell. Unless you can foretell what the cart'll be like, we can only judge it by what it can do now which is perform inferiorly.
The amount fo places to buy them isn't going to change the cart. at all. I don't see your reasoning.

I think this cart preform better then R4 did on launch

I've seen some flash cart it my life time and this one seems good enough .

 

[Seraph]

It's not too early to tell. Unless you can foretell what the cart'll be like, we can only judge it by what it can do now which is perform inferiorly.
The amount fo places to buy them isn't going to change the cart. at all. I don't see your reasoning.

I wasn't trying to reason that if more places were selling the cart it would somehow magically make the cart better...My point was the cart has just been released.(and only on one site)

 

[arctic_flame]

It would be nice if a driver which could access both the NAND and the microsd would be made available, that would at least require the developers to start using different paths (like /nand and /microsd), or perhaps making / standard for the nand memory and /microsd on top of that, making it possible to use standard paths.
It would be quite difficult to engineer tho, since almost no homebrew allow you to configure where you want things to go.

Ideally I would think that all homebrew developers should adapt and put all the config files in a unix-style manner, like all the configs go in /etc with a .conf extension, and that you should at least be able to configure where all the other files belonging to that homebrew will be stored, etc.
I think this will be very difficult to achieve though.

Actually it would be fat0:/ fat1:/ fat2;/ etc if a driver could access both filesystems.
And all your path problems are likely to disappear when the next devkitARM/libnds come out (which will have argc & argv support)

 

[cubin']

so does anyone know if download play is going to be fixed by launch? cheers

 

[RiotShooter]

download play should be eventually fixed

 

[Raisingod]

so does anyone know if download play is going to be fixed by launch? cheers

I really don't know, from what I have seen in the Source code it could be that the auto-trimming might be at fault

 

[Seraph]

so does anyone know if download play is going to be fixed by launch? cheers

See, this is what I was trying to point out. The RPG has already launched (even though only bamboogaming is selling them) hasn't it? I also had the impression that the cart wasn't even released yet earlier, but that's wrong, right?

 

[Alastair]

Again, how can it have terrible support when not even in people's hands yet? By that basis, R4 has terrible support because it hasn't fixed the ARM7 bug. I'm not trying to attack you but you should really have some patience before making such judgments.

Ahh pardon. I wasn't thinking of the same "support". I revoke my previous comment.

I think this cart preform better then R4 did on launch

Don't speak to me, animal.

My point was the cart has just been released.(and only on one site)

You speak truths, Seraph.

QUOTE(PharaohsVizier @ Sep 25 2007, 03:50 PM)

I mean they only limited the first batch to about 50 right? Even so, it was a pretty dissappointing launch.

Haha. I had no idea. That is apalling. Although the CycloDS, as new as it is, is more or less un-available from most sites. These groups need to get their act together - if they want to sell a product, they should have it available to sell.

 

[go185]

I have found the CycloDS on almost all Canadian, US, and other English-speaking sites, most have it in stock.

Bamboogaming, however, is the only site selling the RPG and only had 50 in their first shipment.
(luckily, I ordered mine the day before they went out of stock, already have the tracking number and all!)