Homebrew Increase DS game clockspeed?

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Hi,
So I'm playing dragon quest IX on my R4i at the moment and it has slowdowns often, especially when running around towns. Is there any way to have the DS mode run with higher clock speed, since new 3ds is so much faster than a classic ds, or is that not possible?
 
NTR Launcher and TWLoader allow for running DS games in DSi mode, but DSi mode runs things like touchscreen in a different mode, and I'm not sure they bridge these differences...
 
Hi,
So I'm playing dragon quest IX on my R4i at the moment and it has slowdowns often, especially when running around towns. Is there any way to have the DS mode run with higher clock speed, since new 3ds is so much faster than a classic ds, or is that not possible?

The only NDS flashcart that can play games with higher clock speed is Supercard DSTwo.
 
Try launching through twloader.

EDIT: Atm, DS games can only be clocked to dsi clock speeds. Just letting you know n3ds vs o3ds wouldn't make a difference.
 
Last edited by Giodude,
NTR Launcher and TWLoader allow for running DS games in DSi mode, but DSi mode runs things like touchscreen in a different mode, and I'm not sure they bridge these differences...
To add, there's also the forwarder CIAs.
Also, clock speed is set seperately from touch screen mode.
Games are actually ran in partial DSi mode, since there's SD access for ROMs on SD card, clock speed, and RAM size setting for ROMs on SD card.
how i do that?? i didnt know about this feature
Me neither.
 
The only NDS flashcart that can play games with higher clock speed is Supercard DSTwo.
Nope, it can't, it will run DS games at the same speed.
Supercard DSTWO PLUS has an onboard CPU. From what I have tried, games do not lag with this flashcard.
Link: http://eng.supercard.sc/
The onboard CPU is used only with specific DS homebrews that have instructions to actually use the CPU and RAM included in the flashcard. Maybe the DS Two uses this CPU to handle on the fly patchings instead of relying only on DS hardware, but the actual game won't run through the added CPU, in the end the CPU isn't used to "overclock" or improve the actual game.
Still, SuperCard DS Two (and DS Two+) actually does run commercial DS games with less loading bottlenecks because it uses better quality components than most R4i clones, have a bit different architecture and approach on how to emulate a DS cartridge, and have a different way of patching ROMs.
But even SuperCard DS Two requires a good microSD to work without added slowdown while loading data in background when running commercial DS games.
 
Last edited by Tomy Sakazaki,
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