Hacking Dealextreme New Slot 2 flashcart

[Jgel]

PLEASE post when you get this.

 

[ghettobob]

I want the DSFlash2.
It has puffy ami/yumi. I use to love that show

If TWSCL-TF has good NDS compatibility + GBA/RAM for $25...im going to sell my SuperCard Lite Rumble for it

 

[Jgel]

Yes, if this works like a m3 lite, this would be a GREAT deal.

 

[Zim05]

I want the DSFlash2.
It has puffy ami/yumi. I use to love that showÂ

If TWSCL-TF has good NDS compatibility + GBA/RAM for $25...im going to sell my SuperCard Lite Rumble for it

Can someone find an online store that sells the DSFlash2 please. I want one with a cool sticker

 

[Xeijin]

Yeah I saw this a while back too, it's only in pink though

If it's a SC clone I'll pass, as I want decent GBA compatibility.

If it's a M3 Lite clone, i'm going for it pink or not.

 

[Jgel]

Yeah I saw this a while back too, it's only in pink though

If it's a SC clone I'll pass, as I want decent GBA compatibility.

If it's a M3 Lite clone, i'm going for it pink or not.

Yea, if it is a m3 clone, I could care less what color it is. Although the companies web site shows it in all colors.

 

[diglett]

I don't have it yet, but as bollocks mentioned, it's fairly certain to be some sort of supercard variant. Unfortunately I was under the impression that supercards had pretty good GBA compatibility.

 

[haruk]

English version of the description:
http://www.sz-game.com/windows/b0.htm

The SuperCard is a GBA/NDS adapter which allows you to play backup games, run homebrew applications, watch movies, play music, view pictures and display text. The Supercard can be run on a Nintendo DS, GBA, GBASP and GBM. It has the appearance of the regular GBA cartridge, with a slot for either a MINISD card.

The amount of storage the SuperCard contains via a MINISD flash depends on your card. The Supercard currently supports a MINISD flash card up to 16Gbits (2MBytes). Your backups and homebrew applications can easily be written to your card through a USB card reader. Currently, the Supercard is the lowest-priced GBA/NDS backup utility.

SUPER CARD NDS Features
NDS Functions:

1. You have the option of saving your DS games directly to the MINISD card. You can also save your progress onto the original DS games inserted into your handheld.
2. The Supercard can play NDS games of any sizes!
3. The loading time of NDS games through your MINISD card takes no more than one second.
4. There is absolutely NO slow-down of your NDS games during gameplay.
5. You can load your NDS games from the Supercard's memory or. directly from the MINISD card.

SUPER CARD GBA Features

GBA FOUR Dream Functions:
1. Real time save. Real-time saving is supported. Save your game at anytime!
2. Compress game support. Game compression to save storage space is available.
3. Playing game and view Game guide at the same time. Switch between gameplay and reading a game-guide, without restarting!
4. Without burnning flash, just copy as U Disk Use a MINISD card reader to quickly transfer your games.
Notes:
The Supercard support Type MINISD cards up to 1Gbyte. These cards can also be used in digital cameras, camcorders, U-disks and other digital devices. With the Supercard, you can:
  never lose your game-save again.
  enjoy huge storage capacity.
  play all your favourte games on one card!
  view pictures, text, e-books, movies, and listen to music!
  directly play your old NES and Gameboy games with NO addition software required!
  And much mor

 

[ECas123]

I might get this and just spray paint the pink shell black. Looks nice though

 

[trizzy1982]

Has anyone found more info on this thing? I've searched for hours, even translated some chinese forums, and they seem to think that its a supercard clone too. Plus the patching software seems to be the same as SC. I'm gonna order one and spray paint it white. If anyone can find out if I can flash the newest SC firmware on this thing, that would be great. If no one else finds out I'll let you know how it turns out in about a month..... I'll risk losing $25 to have newer firmware...

 

[erkdajerk]

I just received one from DealExtreme today.

First Impressions:

It's a Supercard Lite near-clone. The opening splash screen actually shows the Supercard Logo! The software is also almost Identical, although in Chinese by default. You can switch to english by clicking on the second tab and choosing english. I tried updating the firmware (1.63) to the latest official Supercard firmware (1.81) but it just gave me error messages. I tried both english and chinese firmware to no avail.

I also tried using the latest version of the Supercard software to write games to the MicroSD card and it seemed to work fine but the NDS games would not boot. GBA games work though.

Using the software that came with the unit (v 1.0) NDS and GBA games seem to load and run fine. There are no instructions in the box and the manufacturer's web site is bogus so don't expect any support or software updates. That's the downside to saving a few bucks. Luckily you can just follow the instructions on supercard's website because the operation of the unit is for all intents and purposes identical.

As far as compatibility goes, I've tried about 6 games each of NDS and GBA roms and all seemed to work with no issues. Obviously I will not be testing every game in existence but if I do find incompatibilities I will try to post them here.

I opened up the unit and the build quality of the circuit board seems to be pretty good overall.

Bottom line: I would have to recommend spending a few more bucks for an original name-brand cartridge. At least then you will be getting long-term support for the product.

Hope that helps!

 

[DSLite]

Could you try using it as RAM cart for the Nintendo DS Browser?

Patch
Extract it, then put the browser ROM in the directory (call it browser.nds) and start OPERA_SC_Patch.bat.

 

[erkdajerk]

Could you try using it as RAM cart for the Nintendo DS Browser?

Sorry, but it doesn't seem to work. It says "memory expansion required"

 

[ghettobob]

no Opera??? NoOoOoOo.
I would've bought it too if Opera worked.
You know how I love supercards and dealextreme

 

[diglett]

I was planning on testing this when I got mine, but if you feel like it, you could try out some of the GBA roms that are problematic on the supercard (compatiblity list below). I guess it isn't a 1:1 clone, so it would be nice if they managed to improve the GBA support.

http://rothmans.joskeonline.com/supercardsite/

 

[dbgtdob]

no Opera??? NoOoOoOo.
I would've bought it too if Opera worked.
You know how I love supercards and dealextreme

dealextreme sells supercards too.

$37.27 free shipping

 

[ghettobob]

^^ oh I meant

no Opera??? NoOoOoOo.
I would've bought it too if Opera worked.
You know how I love cheap and flush supercards and dealextreme

 

[diglett]

Got one yesterday.

Fit and color are good. It's not precisely flush, but comparable to the M3 Lite. I'm not familiar with the supercard series, but it seems to be using supercard firmware as it uses the supercard logo and produced an error common to the supercard when using a card formatted with FAT32:

"Not FAT Format
Please turn off GBA"

Tested a handful of GBA and NDS roms. Most worked, but the GBA issues seem to carry over from the supercard, and I could not get Pokemon Pearl to work for the DS. According to a forum post, there is a newer alpha version of the patching software, but the link seems to be dead.

http://bbs.newwise.com/thread-311701-1-1.html