DSTT in-house! Pics and first impressions

[moggymatt]

LOL I tried to order another R4DS pre-xmas and found them outta stock just about everywhere!! One place had them (or so they said) The R4 was ordered and got an email the day it "should" of arrived saying not till new year....

Postey came this morning and low and behold a parcel, I thought yay an R4 for my lad (as he had my old one) I open the packet and WTF a white DSTT, humm I thought a R4/m3 clone??!? I'd seen these when I tried to order, Yumm and new card to play with

But no box no CD no nothing just a slip of paper in a plastic bag!! As read:

Please accept our apologies for the delay in receiving you order.
Please not that due to the nature of these cards packaging can currently not be provided. All packaging is currently held with UK customs.

R4DS/DSTT/M3 Simply carry the same media spec for gaming and media files. At present R4 cards are not available.
....

blah blah blah....

I downloaded and flashed the DSTT firmware onto the mircoSD (same one that I used for the r4) and some games wouldn't use the R4 saves

(contra4 being the first I tried)

Instead of files being in their own folders i.e Homebrew, DS-Romz, media everything is spat into one directory... bah!!

but....

OooOoo! Scroll bars (cyclos eat ya heart out) No decent theme support

No forum no guides (not that you need one)

As with most new flashcards it can take a while for support, but i still love my R4 I like its file browser etc.

A couple of questions WTF is "DMA mode" ???

And I think its more of a Cyclos clone than r4/m3, even though its bracketed with m3/r4 ?!?!?

It is a TOP TOY but FS shitty name oh well, /me goes on another testing spree...

 

[geedubelyoo]

can somebody please help me with this.
i bought 3 of these dstt gadgets for the nintendo lite, (1 each for the kids) i believed that they were just plug & play, ie drag nds files off the pc straight on to the micro sd card that i inserted into the supplied reader, i did not recieve a driver cd in any of the 3 boxes,
when i put the micro sd card into the supplied adaptor then into the ds i only get a white screen & picture of a micro sd card with menu written underneath,
i am at my wits end trying to sort it out with 3 kids asking what is wrong with it!, any help greatly recieved for my future sanity.
many thanks.
caiblue.

Quite simple really. You need to put on the loader files.

Think of them as the operating system for the card. They're not contained within the devices firmware itself unlike some other kits. The loader is a group of files you need to extract to the root of the micro SD card.

You can download the latest loader files from our site right here.

Use a extraction program such as WinZip or WinRar to extract, then go into the ENG (English) (CHS being Chinese simplified, and CHT being Chinese traditional) folder, and copy all to the root of your mem card. (All files/folders are required).

Hope that helps you.

I too bought ttds cards for my kids and had same problem as caiblue. Unfortunately, even after downloading from your link and copying eng file to card, I just get a brief flash of something then back to MENU? I copy it by clicking on the file in my downloads on my computer then paste it onto the screen for the card. Is that right or is there another step I should take? Hope you can help.

 

[shaunj66]

can somebody please help me with this.
i bought 3 of these dstt gadgets for the nintendo lite, (1 each for the kids) i believed that they were just plug & play, ie drag nds files off the pc straight on to the micro sd card that i inserted into the supplied reader, i did not recieve a driver cd in any of the 3 boxes,
when i put the micro sd card into the supplied adaptor then into the ds i only get a white screen & picture of a micro sd card with menu written underneath,
i am at my wits end trying to sort it out with 3 kids asking what is wrong with it!, any help greatly recieved for my future sanity.
many thanks.
caiblue.

Quite simple really. You need to put on the loader files.

Think of them as the operating system for the card. They're not contained within the devices firmware itself unlike some other kits. The loader is a group of files you need to extract to the root of the micro SD card.

You can download the latest loader files from our site right here.

Use a extraction program such as WinZip or WinRar to extract, then go into the ENG (English) (CHS being Chinese simplified, and CHT being Chinese traditional) folder, and copy all to the root of your mem card. (All files/folders are required).

Hope that helps you.

I too bought ttds cards for my kids and had same problem as caiblue. Unfortunately, even after downloading from your link and copying eng file to card, I just get a brief flash of something then back to MENU? I copy it by clicking on the file in my downloads on my computer then paste it onto the screen for the card. Is that right or is there another step I should take? Hope you can help.

Don't copy JUST the ENG File. The ENG folder is just a directory containing THE files you need to "install". Open the contents of the ENG folder, then copy ALL the contents that are INSIDE the ENG folder to the root (the first "screen") of your micro SD card.

 

[g.crow]

you can never go wrong with some basic computer knowledge

 

[geedubelyoo]

can somebody please help me with this.
i bought 3 of these dstt gadgets for the nintendo lite, (1 each for the kids) i believed that they were just plug & play, ie drag nds files off the pc straight on to the micro sd card that i inserted into the supplied reader, i did not recieve a driver cd in any of the 3 boxes,
when i put the micro sd card into the supplied adaptor then into the ds i only get a white screen & picture of a micro sd card with menu written underneath,
i am at my wits end trying to sort it out with 3 kids asking what is wrong with it!, any help greatly recieved for my future sanity.
many thanks.
caiblue.

Quite simple really. You need to put on the loader files.

Think of them as the operating system for the card. They're not contained within the devices firmware itself unlike some other kits. The loader is a group of files you need to extract to the root of the micro SD card.
You can download the latest loader files from our site right here.

Use a extraction program such as WinZip or WinRar to extract, then go into the ENG (English) (CHS being Chinese simplified, and CHT being Chinese traditional) folder, and copy all to the root of your mem card. (All files/folders are required).

Hope that helps you.

I too bought ttds cards for my kids and had same problem as caiblue. Unfortunately, even after downloading from your link and copying eng file to card, I just get a brief flash of something then back to MENU? I copy it by clicking on the file in my downloads on my computer then paste it onto the screen for the card. Is that right or is there another step I should take? Hope you can help.

Don't copy JUST the ENG File. The ENG folder is just a directory containing THE files you need to "install". Open the contents of the ENG folder, then copy ALL the contents that are INSIDE the ENG folder to the root (the first "screen") of your micro SD card.

Sorry, I've just upgraded to Vista, built my first computer (from Motherboard up) and am learning programming but in some areas I'm still trying to run before I can walk. I don't know any other way to learn. Right now the smalls have gone to bed and I have two DS's on the table which have been loading for over an hour. I did as you suggested and copied each file over individually and, after moving cards to DS's. got the message LOADING... then the screen went into black and purple stripes and has an animated loading icon. I know I'm still doing something wrong and I suspect it is because I have not located the root file to copy to. I feel locked out by Windows and may try through Knoppix which seems to offer more freedom. Thank you for your help anyway.

 

[johnboyd]

Hi, anyone know the legality of these cards for sale in the UK, as I've just noticed Ebay.co.uk have banned the selling of the R4 and TT cards and when I tried to sell my TT card, they removed it?

Cheers

John.

 

[RichieP]

Just had one delivered from Dealxtreme - seems impressive for the price, but how does the save function work? Do I have to do anything as I'm getting the top screen message of when the game was saved but in reality it doesn't appear to do so?

Thanks,

Rich