Bought my daughter DS Lite for xmas and her cousins told her to get R4 but reading on posts here, I'm getting the impression that the thing to go is AceKard2.

Since i'll be relying mostly on your feedbacks what is my best choice?

 

If your going to get one for your daughter I suggest a CycloDS really easy to set up, lots of firmware upgrades, and all game problems are fixed really quickly without need for patching...

 

If you feel that your daughter will use real-time game state dumping and that the option is worth the extra money, then get the CycloDS. You can get them at RealHotStuff: http://www.realhotstuff.com/-c-61_90_61.html

Otherwise, get an Acekard 2.1.

As Sportsmaniac1322 said, stay away from the R4.

-Bri

 

I live in the US and have purchased 6 CycloDS's (in the past year or so, they make great gifts...hehe) from http://realhotstuff.com They are based in NJ so shipping is pretty quick. I can't comment on any other cards besides the CycloDS, but it has never let me down. I often hear the term "expensive" used when it comes to the CycloDS, but that seems to come from kids with little pocket change (they want $1000 worth of games for $1) then want to complain when their cheap cards break or don't work. Right now RHS is running a special ... CycloDS Evolution + Kingston 4 GB microSD $57.00 ... that seams rather reasonable to me ... if that is too much then perhaps ...CycloDS Evolution + 2GB microSD Bundle
[cy_evo] $50.00

 

you may also want to check out the itouch too
though, acekard is faster, the itouch has a slow menu

 

you don't think his daughter deserves the best? children are the most important people in parents' lives.

ok lol jk

but really, I agree, unless your daughter is really into games and wants a lot of features in her cart i wouldn't get a $50 cyclo. just get her an ak2 that's $10 on dealextreme here:

http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11811

they are awesome little carts that do everything a little girl would want a DS flash cart to do.

 

she'll share it w/ my 4yr old son so i'm planning on downloading a lot of games. right now he has 30+ games on our hacked wii. i'm not concerned w/ price.

 

The EZFlash 3-in-1 is required to play GBA games stored on your microSD card. It goes into slot 2 and has enough internal memory to hold one game. When you click on a .gba game in the CycloDS menu, it will load it to the EZFlash and you'll be able to play the game.

If your daughter doesn't care about GBA games and only wants to play NDS games, you don't need it.

Oh, the 3-in-1 also has two other uses. It works as extra memory needed to run the Opera browser (which sucks anyway so you probably won't want to use it). It also has a crappy rumble built in. The rumble will vibrate with certain games that support it. Rumble sounds a lot neater than it is in reality. There are only a few games that support it, it eats up battery, and the rumble on the EZFlash is really loud and not very "rumbly" (it's more of an annoying buzzing).

-Bri

 

yeah i reccomend acekard2 but if you have lots of muneez then get her a cyclo