Hacking Frequent NAND writes
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You mean you flashing NAND backup using hardmod frequently? Well practically even the console seems to rewrite bits of area on every boot even if you don't install a thing (hence you'll notice that backup size is not always the same). And the emmc has rewrite capacity of a thousand or more I think, also it has the graceful degradation, ie. if a cell on chip about to fail it will automatically write to a spare block and use that location onwards. If you are flashing once or twice a day, it might be okay, but if flashing a dozen times a day then you might reconsider...
This is why we have emuNAND. 
Realistically though, even with years of heavy use, the sys nand should hold up. I think 100,000 read/write cycles is typical so you really shouldn't worry about it unless you want to play 3ds into your 80s.
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The bad news is that other things like buttons/battery/screen/contacts will likely fail long before the nand.
Realistically though, even with years of heavy use, the sys nand should hold up. I think 100,000 read/write cycles is typical so you really shouldn't worry about it unless you want to play 3ds into your 80s.
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The bad news is that other things like buttons/battery/screen/contacts will likely fail long before the nand.
I would be more worried about the frequency of opening and closing your 3DS lid.... Everytime you hear that click, thats a microscopic piece of plastic shaved off..... That will wear out long before your NAND chip degrades enough to make your 3DS unbootable!
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Psionic Roshambo:
One thing that just occurred to me.... The sound on the 2600 sucked less back then the harsh sound we hear now is from infinitely better speakers we have now, back when the 2600 was new speakers produced a almost muffled sound, like CRTs made old graphics look slightly better. -
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Psionic Roshambo:
I wonder if I could recommend that to some emulation devs that perhaps the sound could use some smoothing out to simulate those old TVs
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Psionic Roshambo:
I think a few of the early systems could benefit from that, at least up to the 8 bit generation, by the 16 bit generation I think TVs had gotten a lot better in almost every way
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Xdqwerty:
it says it only works for the original R4, R4i Gold (r4ids.cn), R4iDSN (r4idsn.com) and Acekard R.P.G. -
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Psionic Roshambo:
Just give it a try, but honestly if you have a 3DS you can play DS games without a card just off the internal SD card
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