Homebrew [Debate][Poll] Flashcards vs. 3DeSmume

[hii915]

should i wait for perfect emulation or should I buy a 9$ r4isdhc dual core.
I cant decide

 

[Xandrid]

should i wait for perfect emulation or should I buy a 9$ r4isdhc dual core.
I cant decide

Depends, if you have the money and no patience, then go for it, but if you don't have the money and patience the wait for emulation

 

[Meteor7]

As someone with a Supercard DSTwo giving perfect DS game performance, DS emulation doesn't interest me in the slightest.

 

[dubbz82]

As someone with a Supercard DSTwo giving perfect DS game performance, DS emulation doesn't interest me in the slightest.

As someone else who also owns a dsTwo, I wholeheartedly disagree. Having it here and now is a good thing, but it'd really be better long term to push away from them if we can.

 

[Lumince]

Tbh, the emulation interests me. I have a ds flashcard and i still like the fact that this is happening. If you have no interest in desmume being ported then dont use it xD I for one will continue to test all the games i loved from my dsi. This is an interesting idea and i may just make my own banner and icon for it xD

 

[Pokéidiot]

3DeSmume did a great impulse on the 3DS scene, proofing that (N)3DS can emulate DS games, still with major issues.
But it's unlikely that it's going to get in such a stage that can replace a flashcard. (emulate wifi, etc)

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Also, DS emulation on 3DS is still a very experimental thing, so you'd not like to move on to use it daily in this stage.

 

[Link_of_Hyrule]

It's my opinion that the time spent making an emulator for a device that already supports running DS Games natively is kind of dumb. Why not spend the time to get DS games to work natively because honestly I can't imagine porting an entire emulator that can't perfectly emulate games like the native support can will take less time than making a patch to make it so we don't need a flash card. Sadly the people that have the capability to do this won't because it doesn't benefit them because in most cases it's used for piracy. I personally have a lot of DS games that I actually own that I'd rather not lug around if I can have them all on my SD card. In the long run flash cards will always be the best option until this problem is fixed I imagine.

 

[Pokéidiot]

It's my opinion that the time spent making an emulator for a device that already supports running DS Games natively is kind of dumb. Why not spend the time to get DS games to work natively because honestly I can't imagine porting an entire emulator that can't perfectly emulate games like the native support can will take less time than making a patch to make it so we don't need a flash card. Sadly the people that have the capability to do this won't because it doesn't benefit them because in most cases it's used for piracy. I personally have a lot of DS games that I actually own that I'd rather not lug around if I can have them all on my SD card. In the long run flash cards will always be the best option until this problem is fixed I imagine.

I replied on that thread that reversing TWL_FIRM to elaborate a patch like that would be the same pain as making DS emulation on 3DS a stable thing.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I'm not sure what the idea is but if it can replace buying flashcards, go ahead, i have bought 4 flash carts in the past, Acekard 2i (no longer works, cheap a$$ F#%K) and i don't mean price, i mean durability, it didn't last long and required some paper cardboard trick to force connectors contacts to fit.

Ace 3ds? Oh well don't work anymore, (think is dead) lack of support for firmware updates.

R4i SDHC? Also lack of supporting updates, it still works and has some japanese game by konami, but not on my 3ds. Also the website don't have the files anymore, all i find is "NEW 2016 R4 Working on latest firmware" Why couldn't they just update the one i had, why do i need to buy a new card to get it to work again? Is like a subscription that doesn't end. I hate that.

I have a Supercard ds Two, but is lost right now, the problem? is the most expensive one, it cost over $40 compared to the others which was about less than $10. It surprisingly works the best and says is continued supported on updates, even talking about how advance it was to other flash cards with the extra cpu chips and such, the snes and gba emulators. Real time save states, and multiple saves for games only supporting single saves, realtime cheat search, is great. Just it was expensive other than that, no problems. I just need to find it.

I just wanna buy something that works one time without having to replace it unless is upgrading, not to fix a problem. Is ridiculous.

 

[Xiphiidae]

R4i SDHC? Also lack of supporting updates, it still works and has some japanese game by konami, but not on my 3ds. Also the website don't have the files anymore, all i find is "NEW 2016 R4 Working on latest firmware" Why couldn't they just update the one i had, why do i need to buy a new card to get it to work again? Is like a subscription that doesn't end. I hate that.

My R4i '3DS' (with the JPN Konami game as its icon) works fine on my 3DS, and I use WOOD firmware just fine on it.

 

[RemixDeluxe]

It's my opinion that the time spent making an emulator for a device that already supports running DS Games natively is kind of dumb. Why not spend the time to get DS games to work natively because honestly I can't imagine porting an entire emulator that can't perfectly emulate games like the native support can will take less time than making a patch to make it so we don't need a flash card. Sadly the people that have the capability to do this won't because it doesn't benefit them because in most cases it's used for piracy. I personally have a lot of DS games that I actually own that I'd rather not lug around if I can have them all on my SD card. In the long run flash cards will always be the best option until this problem is fixed I imagine.

This sums up my feelings exactly, the time could of been spent on something more productive when we already have a solution to running games natively.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

My R4i '3DS' (with the JPN Konami game as its icon) works fine on my 3DS, and I use WOOD firmware just fine on it.

Is your flash card the same one in the picture?

 

[Queno138]

It's my opinion that the time spent making an emulator for a device that already supports running DS Games natively is kind of dumb. Why not spend the time to get DS games to work natively because honestly I can't imagine porting an entire emulator that can't perfectly emulate games like the native support can will take less time than making a patch to make it so we don't need a flash card. Sadly the people that have the capability to do this won't because it doesn't benefit them because in most cases it's used for piracy. I personally have a lot of DS games that I actually own that I'd rather not lug around if I can have them all on my SD card. In the long run flash cards will always be the best option until this problem is fixed I imagine.

If anything, it could be more of a pain to redirect and reverse TWL_FIRM to play DS games as though installing.cia games.

While porting over an emulator is a pain, it's not as bad a pain apparently.

Oh well oh wells,
Nothing wrong for people to grab a DS flash carts, but this tool could sprout open other opportunities!

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I think it would be a much better idea to make a DS Hypervisor for 3DS mode. It would be more work but the end result would be much better. Think in the same vein of Nintendont and Devolution. 100% compatibility, full speed, native games but with extra features not possible running directly in DS mode such as loading games from SD, button remapping with support for the extra buttons on the CPP/n3DS, fast forward etc. A modded TWL_FIRM could do some/most of these things as well.

 

[Xiphiidae]

Is your flash card the same one in the picture?

I don't believe so. It definitely looks different, I guess there are so many R4(i) SDHC/RTS etc. clones it's difficult to tell which one's which.

Maybe check out this thread though, it might help with booting it on 3DS.

 

[Earth97]

Button remapping. That's enough for me to support 3DeSmume.

 

[KazoWAR]

Other, instead of emulating in 3DS mode, they should be running natively in DSi Mode. back in the day, the roms were patch to run from slot2, i dont see why it not possible to read from sd.

 

[Deleted User]

Personally i would prefer emulation, 1 sd is better than needing 2

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Personally i would prefer emulation, 1 sd is better than needing 2

To be fair sd cards suck now and days, they die and mafunction very unexpectedly and it sucks. Hope no future consoles ever use sd cards, Maybe make something more durable. But still i agree with you.

 

[migles]

custom answer:
DS flashcards are cheap and very accurate, you should use them, but we can still enjoy the extra features on an emulators and the carts are not available for everyone.