martin88 said:Aww not in stock at DealExtreme.
cutterjohn said:Apparently DX will be selling them for $31 which is a FAR more reasonable price than the c. $40 @ bamboogaming for what this cart is. Unfortunately they seem to be sold out already. (It seems like every new cart that they get is sold out immediately.)
The only thing that they could do to push this over the top would be to discontinue the RPG, and open source the AK2's firmware. I'm already thinking about picking up one of these over the Edge cart, and would up my purchase to the next couple of months if the open sourced the firmware for this cart as well, otherwise I'll wait until around the end of the year or until one of my other carts dies randomly before then.
Because I'm not going to buy a cart for sitting around watching the intro movie. Personally, I never found it to be a very relevant benchmark anyways. No slowdown was experienced during the day or so of testing.QUOTE said:I think it would be worth mentioning under cons that it isn't open source, since the AKRPG was, and they're basically the same minus the NAND.
While it is disappointing, its not really (or at all) a standard feature among flashcarts, therefore it seems hard to justify it as a "con" when none of the competing carts have one.
And how come this gets a gold award? it doesn't even run the Castlevania intros properly.QUOTE said:How do you like the Acekard 2 compared to the Edge?While the EDGE is a great cart as well, in a contest with the acekard 2, the acekard wins hands down. In addition to having a much more detailed theming, I just love the level of tweaking you get with "globalsettings.ini". As far as menu responsiveness and speed, they're about equal (although you can slow down the acekard's by changing some settings if you want).QUOTE said:Please give us your take on the Edge vs this one.
Outside of menu appearance and tweaking, they're about on par feature-wise. The acekard has a slight advantage here as well due to its supporting of standard cheat libraries, while the EDGE is locked into its proprietary format (meaning you have to use the cheats they provide).
One thing I have yet to test is Wii DS linkage. I'd think that the EDGE has it since its a clone of the Cyclo, which may be something to consider for a Wii owner.
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That has got to be the most illogical thing you have posted cutterjohn. Why would they discontinue the RPG when it is doing so well not to mention many people have bought it that expect good support. If the RPG turns into a DSX then acekard will probably go out of business. And just so you know, the AK2 isn't OFFICIALLY open source but it will have all the open source releases that the RPG gets so it technically still gets all the goodies of open source.cutterjohn said:The only thing that they could do to push this over the top would be to discontinue the RPG, and open source the AK2's firmware. I'm already thinking about picking up one of these over the Edge cart, and would up my purchase to the next couple of months if the open sourced the firmware for this cart as well, otherwise I'll wait until around the end of the year or until one of my other carts dies randomly before then.
What are you basing this on?golden said:And just so you know, the AK2 isn't OFFICIALLY open source but it will have all the open source releases that the RPG gets so it technically still gets all the goodies of open source.
Forgive me for not going back and quoting my source but I saw smith's or normmatts post a couple days ago about the AK2 and they(can't remember which, smith or normmatt or another person here that helps with the firmware) said that their releases for the open source RPG will also be implemented in the next release of AK2 firmware.Urza said:What are you basing this on?golden said:And just so you know, the AK2 isn't OFFICIALLY open source but it will have all the open source releases that the RPG gets so it technically still gets all the goodies of open source.
Urza said:What are you basing this on?golden said:And just so you know, the AK2 isn't OFFICIALLY open source but it will have all the open source releases that the RPG gets so it technically still gets all the goodies of open source.
Ya, thanks. That's what I was talking about Urza. Except, I don't know who said it. I think it might have been smith or normmatt. Can't remember.sk3tch said:Urza said:What are you basing this on?golden said:And just so you know, the AK2 isn't OFFICIALLY open source but it will have all the open source releases that the RPG gets so it technically still gets all the goodies of open source.
Some of the people working on the RPG have confirmed that the Acekard team has contacted them to get permission to use their work on the Acekard 2. One could safely make the assumption that they will continue this RPG > 2 relationship. Hopefully they'll take the "best of the best" from RPG's open source dev and migrate it to the 2.