Crucial update... of course for those users whose DS-X was totally useless, because now they can load games at least. That is what has been the betatesting. People with useless DS-X saying "whoooa" (after seeing their device booting a game for the first time), but no serious playing-saving-what about that problematic game...?-playing-saving and so on.
So after the "whoooa" some people is realizing their DS-X is just doing what is suppossed to do every other device on the market. I mean, AT LEAST load and save games. But it is doing no more (when compared to competitors features) and it is doing it BAD.
Some people has started to report LOOONG .SAV creation times upon startup, and I'm talking of MORE than 20 seconds. There is official word on this from DS-X "Guru" and he says "that is to be sure the .SAV is created without problems. We will be optimizing saving times in the future". What a SHAME.
Look, I'm still using old 1.0.2 FW without any "qkin" fix applied (I've never experienced it) and the logest time it tooks to create a .SAV file is 5-6 seconds for Mario Kart. Pokemon D/P time is not much more than 1 second. So DS-X users, times longer than 5-6 seconds should not be tolerated.
I'm not going to update my firmware yet. Today I've found that Code Lyoko is playing and saving fine in 1.0.2 while for 1.1.0 it was reported as not working (don't know about newest 1.1.2). I will be also interested in someone to check Bleach DS 2nd and Pokemon Ranger, both with known saving problems in past firmwares.
About the recent Zelda and SimCity games. Giving support to them should be an easy and QUICK task given there is already support from other device manufacturers. But we are talking about DS-XtremeLYSLOW team. Given they still have EEPROM problems to manage 512 kbytes saves, don't know what will happen with 2048 kbytes (2 megabytes, I'm assuming this is the correct size, correct me if I'm wrong) saves. They first have to adapt their shitty virtual EEPROM system to accomodate such size, so time will tell.
Remember, somebody using the latest 1.1.2 please test Code Lyoko, Bleach DS 2nd and Pokemon Ranger.