CycloDS Evolution Review

[spokenrope]

GBAtemp's Official review of the CycloDS Evolution is now complete. If your eager to see how

I stopped reading right there. It's like somebody punched me in the language center of my brain. I expect better out of GBATemp and Shaun especially.

 

[shaunj66]

GBAtemp's Official review of the CycloDS Evolution is now complete. If your eager to see how

I stopped reading right there. It's like somebody punched me in the language center of my brain. I expect better out of GBATemp and Shaun especially.

Give a guy a break!

I just spent a good part of 2 days writing this thing!

 

[ASK]

8.7? How the hell did R4 and M3 Simply beat this out considering the features? That is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[KINGOFNOOBS]

Nice review. You guys need to redo the DSLinker/N-Card review since the new firmware update came out and its alot better now

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[supermauerbros]

GBAtemp's Official review of the CycloDS Evolution is now complete. If your eager to see how

I stopped reading right there. It's like somebody punched me in the language center of my brain. I expect better out of GBATemp and Shaun especially.

Give a guy a break!

I just spent a good part of 2 days writing this thing!

Yeah Jeez Shaun I'm sorry but I'm going to have to dock my review of your review from a 9.0 to an 8.6.

Kidding aside, great review and as an R4 owner I welcome the competition, it can only mean good things.

 

[bobrules]

R4 has a better price to quality ratio.

 

[spokenrope]

GBAtemp's Official review of the CycloDS Evolution is now complete. If your eager to see how

I stopped reading right there. It's like somebody punched me in the language center of my brain. I expect better out of GBATemp and Shaun especially.

Give a guy a break!

I just spent a good part of 2 days writing this thing!

And it shows. Excellent review, dude. Very thorough and well presented.

 

[bobrules]

I think the R4 score should be raised.
Taken from the review
Pros
+ 100% ROM compatibility (from current tests)
+ No slow-downs or glitches in game (from current tests)
+ Completely drag 'n' drop, no software needed
+ Supports clean ROMs
+ Expandable micro SD memory solution
+ Supports FAT and FAT32
+ Great build quality
+ Fits flush in your DS
+ Nice freebies in the package
+ Fairly cheap!

Cons
- Basic, dated GUI
- Lacking extra features
- English firmware updates slower than Chinese
- Low homebrew compatibility
- Lacking download play support


A lot of the cons are now gone, and great support from the team as well.

 

[Sweater Fish Del]

bah, it doesn't support gba flash carts in slot 2, only for DS games in slot 2, a shame, my G6 lite wouldn't work if i tried to play gba games i'm presuming?

The CycloDS doesn't affect how a slot-2 cart functions, so GBA support on the G6 Lite will be unaffected and will work just like it does now.


...word is bondage....

 

[jalaneme]

bah, it doesn't support gba flash carts in slot 2, only for DS games in slot 2, a shame, my G6 lite wouldn't work if i tried to play gba games i'm presuming?

The CycloDS doesn't affect how a slot-2 cart functions, so GBA support on the G6 Lite will be unaffected and will work just like it does now.


...word is bondage....

ah i see, well that's cool then because the G6 lite is a gba /DS hybrid.

 

[JusDaMan]

Wow... how does the m3/r4 get a higher score than the evo... better yet... how does scds1 have a lower score than the rest of them. the evo has pretty much better everything than m3/r4. Both scds1 and evo should have equal if not better than m3/r4. given that scds1 requires a good micro sd to run at optimum performance. but hey they feature more stuff than m3/r4. even though their not "user friendly" compare to m3/r4. and the evo seems to have similar function to the m3/r4. AND 100% download play.

If m3 and r4 gets a 9.0
evo should get >=9.0
scds1 v2.0os should get >=9.0 too.

and dslinker/n-card/ez-5 should get their scores reviewed.

 

[mastertop101]

I agree, I think CycloDS deserves a better score... or put the R4 score at like.. 8.5, DS-x at.. 7.5-8... etc..

 

[bobrules]

we should actually wait, and then update scores. R4 should get a 9.5, read the review for it, It's out dated.

 

[stop_loading]

great review as always

I wonder if it slows down on THDJ though?

 

[simpson17]

edit - delete my post

 

[quartercast]

I think the Evo and R4 are pretty even at the moment. The R4 is very cheap and has good slot-2 support, while the Evo has microSDHC support and excellent download play compatibility. Once the Evo's price comes down (its only just been released!) and slot-2 support is implemented, the Evo will easily be the better card. But then again, who knows what tricks the R4 team have up their sleeve!

As far as marking goes, I have plenty of sympathy for shaunj66, quantifying hardware/software faults and features into marks must be very difficult! I think at the end of the day, this sort of marking is rather arbitrary and depends on the reviewer's opinion on how important certain features are.

Of course, some values ARE quantifiable (% download play compatibility, % rom compatibility etc). I think all GBAtempers would appreciated a scorecard showing how marks are broken down and calculated, and whether they are calculated in a uniform manner among all carts.

 

[ZdProjects]

there isn't even microSDHC cards out yet, or at least i can't find any, i found regular SDHC cards. anyone know where to find one?

 

[rest0re]

woah even jesus loves this cart. perfect 10/10. now everybody go and buy this and forget r4

 

[quartercast]

there isn't even microSDHC cards out yet, or at least i can't find any, i found regular SDHC cards. anyone know where to find one?

Have a look here!


Edit: added quote

 

[faceless]

nice review.