Hacking DS-Link, have any questions or tests?

[corbs132]

is my nopass idea included?

EDIT: contacting them now

EDIT 2: nvm, i dont speak japanese

 

[shtonkalot]

Thanks melloncollie, I got it.
I am not going to try it just yet as I'm waiting to hear back from ds-link.net
I just want to make sure it won't break anything

corbs132: What are you on about? What do you need to speak Japanese for? The ds-link site has an english section.
As far as I'm aware the only other language dealt with on the site is Chinese.

I didn't ask them about your nopass idea though. Want to send them an email? try: [email protected]

 

[corbs132]

forums are in chinese, thought i recognized some japanese characters so i said (j) [/nonracismatic j*p] so no way to contact them

 

[marzxbarz]

Can you use a save file from another card (supercard, m3, etc), or does it not work?

 

[ratx]

http://www3.emu-zone.org/host/ediy/emu-hw/diy/dslink05.htm

new patcher out, fixes Lego Star Wars + others I Imagine.

marzxbarz: yeah using the patcher you can.

 

[lenselijer]

I hope they get games like Tony Hawk American Sk8land working, can you try this on your english cart?

here is the translated page

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http://w...iy/dslink05.htm

 

[shtonkalot]

ryohki, I'm still working on star wars (haven't aquired the game yet) but the new client that ratx posted now lets me copy harvest moon and supposedly lets lego star wars work too!

corbs132, I asked about official English forums in my email. I'll update you if / when they respond.

marzxbarz, not sure how you go about using the save files yet. Perhaps ratx can shed some light on it?

 

[ratx]

To import a save ( I tested some EZ4 + SC saves ) right click on a file you've just patched in the patcher and select "Import Saver"

 

[IxthusTiger]

How's Animal Crossing on the SanDisk?

 

[shtonkalot]

I hope they get games like Tony Hawk American Sk8land working, can you try this on your english cart?

Just tried it after loading with the new client software (1.20) on my English DS-Link and it's not working still.
Same problem of freezing at the name entry.

 

[dreary79]

Does download play or link play work?

 

[duinroosje]

it works fine

 

[IxthusTiger]

How is Animal Crossing on SanDisk? Does Big Brain Academy work in multiplayer? Does Band Brothers work?

 

[marzxbarz]

Awesome. I just got my DSLink English ver. todat, but haven't purchased a microSD card. Are any of you using a Kingston 1GB by any chance? It's ten bucks cheaper than the Sandisk, but if it sucks, I'd rather get the Sandisk. Thanks.

 

[shtonkalot]

marzxbarz, so far the kingston seems to preform better for me in the DS-Link than my sandisk (non ultra II) does.
I have a 1GB kingston at home that I've ordered for a friend. I will give it a test tonight if you would like.

IxthusTiger I'm not ignoring your questions. I will try all those games tonight.

By the way all the new pokemon game (mystery dungeon) works fine.

 

[marzxbarz]

If you can test it, that'd be perfect. Thanks, I appreciate it a lot.

 

[shtonkalot]

Well I hope this helps out as I've been doing a ton of testing!
I've been messing about with filesystems on the Sandisk and Kingston 1GB cards I have here.
Hasn't made much of a difference to the cards performance though.

How is Animal Crossing on SanDisk? Does Big Brain Academy work in multiplayer? Does Band Brothers work?

The Sandisk seems to be playing AC fine, well to me anyway. I haven't really played before but it seems pretty quick to enter and leave the houses.
I can't get BBA to work in multiplayer, I keep getting a connection error after setting the multiplayer up.
Band Brothers appears to work OK. I hadn't played it before but it looks and sounds like a cool game. I sucked pretty hard at it though. Played through the first song no problem (except the aforementioned suckage on my part) so I guess it works!?

If you can test it, that'd be perfect. Thanks, I appreciate it a lot.

Testing both the Kingston 1GB and the Sandisk 1GB with the Castlevania test with different filesystems on the cards made it obvious that the Kingston was consistantly faster.
The strange thing was that my 512MB Kingston was a better performer than the 1GB Kingston in that test. Not alot better but noticable.

If I was to get either card today I'd go for the Kingston over the Sandisk. Maybe there are better but my experience is limited to those two brands of Micro-SD.

 

[shtonkalot]

More testing!

0569 - Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
0570 - Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle

Both working fine.

 

[melloncollie]

What format is your memory sticks, FAT16 or FAT32?

 

[Ichiban]

Mines on fat 32, has'nt gimme any bother... So far anway!