Flashcard or Flashcart?

[R2DJ]

Don't some noobs call it r4? Wheres that option?

I get p'ed off when the "casual people" ask me if they can play my Acekard but they call it the "R4". They only know the R4 and nothing else.

 

[Foxle]

As a guy who sleeps over a box of old SNES carts, I'd love to call my homebrew devices for the DS a Flash Cart.

However:

Have any of you guys actually stopped and read the product names? I'm using a SuperCARD DS One, and an AceKARD. The actual products themselves are identifying themselves at cards, so it seems a little weird to have a snobbish, "They've always been call carts and so it shall always remain that way." attitude.

 

[Teelow]

Wow I always called them FlashCard >.> now that i think about it arent Flashcards used for studying?

Don't some noobs call it r4? Wheres that option?

I get p'ed off when the "casual people" ask me if they can play my Acekard but they call it the "R4". They only know the R4 and nothing else.

I totally agree with you, when people see my playing my ds they're like is that an R4. then im like not its an supercard- then like the dumb people they are, when they ask me to if the can my Supercard they still refer to it as an R4.

Grr . That really ticks me if - All they seem to know is r4

 

[El-ahrairah]

Let them think it's an R4, a little misinformation never hurt anyone, right?

I call them flashcarts, because they've always been cartridges, despite what their names are. I don't suppose anyone remembers when Nintendo used to call their cartridges "Game Paks"? It's all just re-branding cartridges.

 

[WildWon]

Wow I always called them FlashCard >.> now that i think about it arent Flashcards used for studying?

Don't some noobs call it r4? Wheres that option?

I get p'ed off when the "casual people" ask me if they can play my Acekard but they call it the "R4". They only know the R4 and nothing else.

I totally agree with you, when people see my playing my ds they're like is that an R4. then im like not its an supercard- then like the dumb people they are, when they ask me to if the can my Supercard they still refer to it as an R4.

Grr . That really ticks me if - All they seem to know is r4

Hey, if people are calling it an R4, at least they have an idea of what you're using. I figure its like using the brand name Kleenex instead of the generic Tissue.

Generically calling a flashcart an R4 doesn't bother me as much as when someone is using "a bluetooth" with their phone. THATS the one that irks me.

 

[tj_cool]

I don't suppose anyone remembers when Nintendo used to call their cartridges "Game Paks"? It's all just re-branding cartridges.

So you mean we have to call em Flashpaks ?

 

[halljames]

I am panicking now, I had never even thought about this until i saw this poll, now I can't even remember what I normaly use, do I use flashcart, do I use flashcard. I just dont know. What should I do. Which should I vote.

My mind is about to explode.

 

[Chris_Skylock]

i call them "DS games that can download games" as most people here in the philippines are idiots at these things. but I call them flashcart

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I call it 'Teh thnig taht yuo c4n put ur d0wnl04D3d r0m20rZ on.' It's the only way people in my neighbourhood understand.

 

[Reaper]

These are flashcards:

 

[Agjsdfd]

I call it flashcart.
But not all people around you understand what it means...
So I just say "rom player" or "backup player".
oh and R4...

 

[da_head]

i call em flashcarts. hm i remb the exact same thread made a few months ago lol.

 

[ENDscape]

I sometimes type FC for short. But i sometimes confuse it for friend codes.

 

[ninchya]

I normally alternate through flash card or carts or dstt but I mean Who really cares? If you talke to your friends like "I have a flashcart" they will be like HUH?

 

[Advi]

anybody who cares is a grammar nazi.

 

[Maz7006]

Flashcard for me, use to use flashcart, but then i used to get a load of ppl asking me what that is.

 

[naglaro00]

i call them "DS games that can download games" as most people here in the philippines are idiots at these things. but I call them flashcart

Sir you are wrong there
Oh wait
'most'
you're right

 

[Fat D]

Slot-1 devices are designed after memory cards and the officially licensed variant is called a game card, so I use Flashcard. On the other hand, the classic cartridge, which Nintendo refer to as Game Pak, are Flashcarts in their re-writable or externally-loading variety. As a generic term referring to both devices, Flashcart is preferrable due to a DS Game Card being more similar to a traditional game cartridge than a Game Pak is to a memory card.

 

[Splych]

@ENDscape ~ Your post got my attention. Sicne FC is also confused with Friend Code.

Flashcart. They don't look like cards...

 

[geminisama]

I alternate, but it's almost always flashcart.