Opium please, can you tell me if you can use the M3 skins on the G6 to change the look of the menu ? If not is there any way to skin the G6 menu ?
I also heard the G6 has some compatibility problems with GBA, is it true (some sort of buggy behaviour when you choose not to use Real Time patch in the G6 manager).
To end all my questions, can you make screenshots of each different part of the menu ? I would like to compare it with the M3's........the G6 Lite is very appealing......I'm hesitating..........
I'm not sure about skins. I haven' been able to apply any different skins on my G6.
There are a few pictures I took. The menu is very slick, it looks a lot different and a lot nicer than the old menu system. When you click/tap a game to start it a small clock will appear to showing loading. When the whole circle is green the game will boot. This only take about 3 seconds, exactly the same as before, but now you have a visual reference.
At the top right hand corner is a drop down menu. You can select between the typical NDS game view, My Card (shows you all the folders and files on your card), media (which boots straight to the movie and music player software with no delay) and pdaDS (which is the same as the M3 pda, however still only available in Chinese, so there's no point in using that yet). The PDA software is about 30MB unless you include the dictionary (chinese) which is a whooping 40MB all on it's own. To make the pdaDS work you just copy the pdaDS folder to the root of your G6 cart.
I just installed the new v4.0 software for the G6 and G6 Lite. The software is the same for both. And damn, it has a much better menu system now with long filename support. Plus entering into GBA mode works correctly, the backlight on the bottom screen turns off.
A VERY nice update. Can't wait for the G6 Lite to reach us over here.
How is the compatibility in your opinion Opium?
NDS rom compatibility: 100%
GBA rom compatibility: 100% (to the best of my knowledge).
However I don't like to use the G6 for GBA uses for the reasons I listed in my G6-Flash review. Real-Time save patch stops a significant amount of games from working. Mario Tennis for example, the game will appear to work like normal but in a tennis match all the graphics are garbled. And if you chose not to use the Real-Time save patch on a rom when you copy it ove rin the G6 manager, the GBA menu asks you again whether you want to apply the patch just before the rom boots up on the G6! It's very annoying because it asks you EVERYTIME. I didn't want the damn patch in the first place so stop trying to make me apply it damn you!
That and the gba rom compression feature on the G6 is a joke. Yeah I'm fine with waiting 4 minutes everytime I want to play a GBA game....
QUOTE(Opium @ Jun 19 2006, 10:37 AM)I just installed the new v4.0 software for the G6 and G6 Lite. The software is the same for both. And damn, it has a much better menu system now with long filename support. Plus entering into GBA mode works correctly, the backlight on the bottom screen turns off.
A VERY nice update. Can't wait for the G6 Lite to reach us over here.
Should I be concerned about using 4.0 since it's a beta?