Hacking I NEED recommendations and help finding the best products and deals

[gizmo_gal]

I'm moving all this info to my Blog. This post can be deleted, please and thanks.

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

What country are they going to be in, and what EXACTLY are their feelings on copyright.

That seems to be the only thing you haven't covered. 8, 10, and 12 means you're risking whatever adult will be with them.

You might not think it matters, it does. They will no doubt be wowing some other kids with their DSs and they might end up raising questions in the so doing.

Have you visited this site before?
http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/4,4163.htm

 

[Esh]

I can't help you much, but that sounds like one hell of a gift.

I'm sure they'll be thrilled.

 

[gizmo_gal]

What country are they going to be in, and what EXACTLY are their feelings on copyright.
Remote North-Western Africa--and they are already there, I'm just going to be sending the gifts. They dont know what copyright is, and because I dont want them to get into trouble its why I'm focusing more on homebrew games and apps and sending them the games we already have on old, outdated systems.

That seems to be the only thing you haven't covered. 8, 10, and 12 means you're risking whatever adult will be with them.
Theyre with relatives and friends of relatives.

You might not think it matters, it does.

Well I'm definitely open to suggestions and advice. Thats why I'm asking for help now, and not the day before I want to ship it.

QUOTE(Panzer Tacticer @ Apr 15 2008, 02:37 PM) They will no doubt be wowing some other kids with their DSs and they might end up raising questions in the so doing.

Here, you are absolutely 100% wrong. They wouldn't do that becuase they have compassion+common sense which is usually enough to keep you from doing mean things like that. If anything would result in the game being stolen/taken it would be if some other kid just sees it in their bags and steals it (which I'm trying not to thank about too much.) *bite nails nervously*

QUOTE(Panzer Tacticer @ Apr 15 2008, 02:37 PM)

Have you visited this site before?
http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/4,4163.htm

Um...I linked to it 2 or 3 times in my original post...

 

[Sephi]

stores:
amazon.com to get MicroSDHC cards
Very good prices on flash memory
8GB MicroSDHC Card
you should get an 8GB instead of 6GB if you plan on adding a lot of videos
if you have 26 episodes that run 24 minutes long and you encode them at a high-ish quality they will come out to ~1.2GB in total
Movies may turn out about ~250MB

dealextreme.com to get cases and etc.
low prices, free but slow shipping

you can get:
nice retractable styluses
Skins (Currently Sold out)
Crystal Case
pouche
Screen Protector
(If you want to save some money on the flashcarts you can get and "EDGE" card, it is a clone of the CycloDS Evo and its only ~$33-$43 but it is hard to find)
and other things
I also recomend that you get an EZ Flash 3-in-1 Expansion pak so they can play GBA games
(GBA games require extra RAM to play, so they can't be used with a slot-1 card alone)

where you can buy flashcarts:
dealextreme
free shipping (slow)
low prices
most cards go out of stock fast

electrobee
Shipping is not free
prices are a tad high
limited selection

kickgaming
prices are ok
stock is ok

gameyeeeah
good stock
fast, cheap shipping
ok variety

consolesource
good stock
good variety

amazon.com
mostly sells clones

jandaman
pretty good prices
ok stock

gameyeeeah if you want good shipping and pretty good prices
dealextreme if you want low prices and shipping is not important

you can look at this thread on gbatemp.net to see more

skins take up very, very little space. about 1MB at the most for a skin

most flashcarts can do what you want to do, if it has homebrew support it can most likely run it.


HomeBrew to get:
MoonShell - videos, music, eBooks/text, pictures (requires videos to be converted to .DPG)
DSOrganize - music, eBooks/text, pictures

Emulation:
lameboy - GB GBC
SnesDS - Snes (number of working games is very limited)
SnemulDS - Snes (Slightly better than SnesDS)
jEnesis - Genesis (plays many games + sound support)

GBA ExpLoader (this is really a loader, you need a slot-2 expansion to use it)

you can look around Urza's top homebrew thread Here to get some ideas (its from January so some things have been updated)

There is much more, you can browse the gbatemp.net homebrew section of the download section Here

as for games only a few of them are any good


this took a while to make, hope its useful

if you want to make an (animated) Gif you'll need to find a program that can do so, just search google for "gif animator"

 

[gizmo_gal]

Okay, I'm moving this to my Blog section. I didn't know how to use it (or that I had one.)
Can a mod please delete this topic?