You don't mention me? xD

 

We should also get someone to donate an M3 GBA expansion so support for that could be added - ExpLoader works fine for when I'm using my Acekard (like the interface a lot better than the M3 DS Real's interface) but native OS support would be the bee's knees.

 

Out of curiosity, what is lacking about AKAIO's 3-in-1 support? To be honest, I haven't used it yet, I have an EZ-Flash V which I've managed that stuff with.

 

i am using paypal (only), i don't want to announce it in the public forum. if you would like to donate please PM me. thanks!

when you want to back up a save you are forced to load another rom. loading a save will load by name not by choice (as with gba exp loader). you can only back up/load 1 save at a time with no slots. also read the recent changelog for gelu's rpg firmware (see below). none of this is added to akaio because they don't have the kits to test on.

changelog

3in1 support:
- new item in start menu "3in1". this item opens dialog where you can open
ram, set rumble strength or make sram backup.
- auto open ram when launching "nintendo browser" europe/japan release.
- you can load gba games directly from shell in same manner as common nds game.
there is autopatcher for most savetypes:
NOSAVE
SRAM_V*
SRAM_F_V*
EEPROM_V111
EEPROM_V120
EEPROM_V121
EEPROM_V122
EEPROM_V124
EEPROM_V126
FLASH_V120
FLASH_V121
FLASH_V123
FLASH_V124
FLASH_V125
FLASH_V126
FLASH1M_V102
FLASH1M_V103
FLASH512_V130
FLASH512_V131
FLASH512_V133
- NOR flash support. if rom size greater then 16 mb it will be written into NOR
flash on 3in1 expansion. this take long time - be patient. in future this
game may be played as through akmenu as through ds original menu.
- gbaframe support.
frame must be placed at fat0:/__rpg/ui//gbaframe.bmp.
gbaframe.bmp must be 256x192x16bit image.
- in-game sleep support in some gba games. actual list of supported games you
can see here:
http://acekard-3in1.googlecode.com/svn/tru...4/gba_sleep.txt
- universal in-game sleep support through Dwedit routine:
http://www.dwedit.org/dwedit_board/viewtopic.php?id=306
now you can in any gba game without internal sleep support switch device to
sleep mode. to go sleep press l+r+start. to resume press select+start.
- autopatching classic nes games.
- forced nor-flashing for any game.
- automatic rumble support in lameboy.
- autopatching dragon ball z - the legacy of goku.
- pokemon linkage supported.

-another world

 

how about someone trades me a black ds lite case for a while 3in1? than imma purchase a black 3in1 and all shall be happy, my white 3in1 is older version, not 100% flush but all works same i think

 

i'm drunk.
this is nice.
remember: we're phat DS users, Norm and I.

That's how we roll.

 

The original size 3-in-1 is a badass piece of machinery even if you do have a Lite; the Lite version is lacking in the "Holy shit it's dotstream/Mother 3/etc. on my Game Boy Player" department.

 

It's not terribly difficult. IIRC lick made a memory expansion detection lib that can use M3 CF/SD memory, if I'm not too far off the mark I think there is support in dslinux as well, and it is definitely in memtestarm; SRAM bankswitching doesn't seem present in any of them, but that would probably be simple enough to figure out from their game patchers. Though... this also poses part of the same problem with EZ4 stuff: they made a bunch of versions ("lite") of their cards with different amounts of memory and version detection is hidden behind some form of scrambling in their kernel.

The m3real gba expansion works like "that other one" (the name eludes me atm), I'm pretty sure someone figured out it's workings a while back.

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Any rate, to not go totally off topic: thanks to the TS for getting this going as it seems the code sans proprietary loader isn't in any near future.

 

That would be the eWin expansion you're talking about.

As for the M3 series, I know that ExpLoader can use my M3 Perfect CF as a GBA expansion (although there's not much of a reason to do so ), so I'd be willing to bet that the M3 Perfect series (i.e., any M3 with the RAM in it) might just use the same RAM as the M3 GBA expansion, so if Normmatts can get his M3 SD working, the M3 GBA expansion might be a possibility as well.

 

You might as well order one first, seeing as DX takes forever to ship