Hacking Dstwo or ievolution

[Deleted member 668561]

ok i have a tough decision to make my r4i recently broke and i want to get another one and i cant decide between the ievolution or the dstwo becasuse of the features.

the ievolution has an onboard 8Mb of ram, can run in dsi-mode, (and only dsi-mode since my dsi got updated to 1.4.3 thanks to my sister)
but its buggy, hasn't been updated in forever.

the dstwo only runs in ds-mode but it has a built-in cpu and ram and i can watch movies without having to convert then for moonshell, gba & snes emulation

and these are general descriptions if you want the full description read below

The CycloDs ievolution
features at the time of release include: (more will be added with Firmware updates)
Cheat code support from Action Replay Data Base
Extra 8 MB RAM onboard
Upgradable Bootstrap so Nintendo can not block the cart
Full support or micro SDHC cards up to 32 GB and microSD up to 2GB
Supports Wii Connection for games
Slow Motion for games
Real Time Save and Restore as seen on the R4i RTS cards
USB Reader / Writer + special firmware upgrade module in the package
Download play support so you can share games over WiFi
Multi Language Operating System and interface

iEvolution will include 8 MB of on-board buffer memory for speeding up file access speeds, which is four times larger than what we had on the CycloDS Evolution which came with just 2 MB.

DSi firmware updates from Nintendo will not be able to block iEVO, because the flash cards boot ROM is upgradable and cart comes with the upgrade module (the circular puck like adapter with a USB plug and a slot for DS cart). And lets not forget that the iEvolution comes with all of the other amazing features that CycloDS Evolution had, including the Enhanced in-game menu and other exclusive features.

Supercard DSTwo


-RealTime Functions: RealTime Save, RealTime Game Guide(txt,bmp,jpg) & RealTime Cheat. (More stable, more easy to use, cheat code compatible with R4 and DSTT now)
• Multi Saves (Up to 4 slot), Easy to backup and restore saves.
• Unlimited MicroSD storage space support. SDHC support. FAT or FAT32.
• Multiple languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish)
• Built-in GBA & SNES Emulator.
• Action Slow Motion (4 levels,).
• File Management System (Copy, Paste, Cut and Delete, long file name support).9. eBook (BMP, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, GIF, TXT, PDF).
• Perfect support for long file names;
• Real-time save slot increase to 4 slots. (Exclusive built-in automatic detection of 3D game engine technology, stability, greatly enhanced);
• Give up cheat-code slow motion game play method, improved use of CPU to do operations, "precise control of CPU speed" Achieving the action slowed down, stability / compatibility and better.
• Real-Time Game Guide will support txt formats without conversion, beautify the font is more beautiful;
• New UI interface design. Easier-to-use.
• Advanced multimedia playback: native DivX/XviD playback as well as other major formats, similar to the iPlayer.

 

[The Catboy]

Supercard DSTwo, the iEvo has been dead for close to a year now, where as the Supercard DSTwo doesn't really even need an update most of the time.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

Supercard DSTwo, the iEvo has been dead for close to a year now, where as the Supercard DSTwo doesn't really even need an update most of the time.

Thanks

 

[The Catboy]

Supercard DSTwo, the iEvo has been dead for close to a year now, where as the Supercard DSTwo doesn't really even need an update most of the time.

Thanks

You forgot a Supercard DSTwo feature, the on-the-fly AP patching.
Really all the DSTwo is missing is a good SDK and being fully open-sourced.

 

[pwsincd]

I read somewhere the movie playing feature on the DSTWO isnt all its cracked up to be , which in turn put me of buying that and ended up grabbing an acekard , maybe i was miss informed though.

 

[The Catboy]

I read somewhere the movie playing feature on the DSTWO isnt all its cracked up to be , which in turn put me of buying that and ended up grabbing an acekard , maybe i was miss informed though.

The movie player is so-so it's not bad, it is the best for the DS by far though

 

[Foxi4]

I read somewhere the movie playing feature on the DSTWO isnt all its cracked up to be , which in turn put me of buying that and ended up grabbing an acekard , maybe i was miss informed though.

The movie player is so-so it's not bad, it is the best for the DS by far though

The fact that you shouldn't be watching movies on a 256x192 screen aside, I don't see how it'd be any better then a properly-converted .dpg movie, MoonShell is pretty solid and I think that the DSTwo's main advantage is the extra CPU which allows better emulation capabilities rather then video playback, seeing that any random smartphone does it better anyways.

 

[jurassicplayer]

Really all the DSTwo is missing is a good SDK and being fully open-sourced.

IIRC it's now out and all...but it was using the old devkit. Pate updated it so that it can compile with the latest I think...but he wasn't planning on continuing and fixing everything (something about broken sound...maybe?).
Using his words:

Source code for the SuperCard DSTwo SDK 1.2 NDS side (firmware), suitable for
building with a recent DevKitPro version. The original sources released by
SuperCard need a very old DevKitPro version to build. NOTE!
This is not a complete implementation, only a (mostly) working starting
point for your own enhancements!