Howdy. I have had a DSL for a couple of months now and really enjoy it over all. Just recently found out how much more to them there is than meets the eye and am looking for a little bit of specific advice about products...
1. Looking for slot 1 recommendations. The front runners seem to be the R4, the m3 and the DSTT. It sounds like the the R4 is something of the super solid stand by, with good reliability, good compatibility, freq updates and is relatively easy to use, but it doesn't support SDHC so you are limited to 2gb cards, is this correct? Is a bigger card really that useful...how many DS ROMs fit on a 2gb card? Can you transfer a game off of microSD and then back on with your save intact? The DSTT sounds like it supports SDHC, but seems to have a much spottier record (looking thru the forums some love it and some have had bad experiences with it). Finally, the M3 seems to be another longstanding card with may of the same virtues of the R4 (in fact read somewhere that they are the same card), but comes in some different flavors (simply, real, etc). What is the difference in all of these...the M3 Real seems to be a perfect solution, combining reliability, compatibility and freq updates with the ability to use SDHC cards of higher capacity. Are my impressions at all accurate? Which of these do folks recommend for someone who really just wants to play lots of different games and have things be reliable and simple? All of the extras (pdas, etc.) don't mean much to me.
2. Slot 2 recommendations. The solutions I am looking at are the ezflash 3-in-1, the m3 lite, and the GBA expansion with the m3 real. Having a dedicated slot 2 card w/ all my games on it is appealing, which makes me prefer the m3 lite over the ezflash (although it would seem to mean needing 2 microSD cards, but the one for the slot 2 device could probably be pretty small and still hold a decent number of games, right?). Also, I have read that dedicated slot 2 cards are more difficult to use than the ezflash, is this true? How so? The GBA expansion with the M3 real is something I have seen mentioned and for sale, but really do not know anything about how it works, could someone explain it?
3. Finally, the m3 lite says it is includes nes and snes emulators how well do these work? (finally a simple straight forward question!!)
4. thought of one more, has anyone ordered from gameyeeeah.com? are they pretty reliable?
thanks in advance for your help and advice.
jay
1. Looking for slot 1 recommendations. The front runners seem to be the R4, the m3 and the DSTT. It sounds like the the R4 is something of the super solid stand by, with good reliability, good compatibility, freq updates and is relatively easy to use, but it doesn't support SDHC so you are limited to 2gb cards, is this correct? Is a bigger card really that useful...how many DS ROMs fit on a 2gb card? Can you transfer a game off of microSD and then back on with your save intact? The DSTT sounds like it supports SDHC, but seems to have a much spottier record (looking thru the forums some love it and some have had bad experiences with it). Finally, the M3 seems to be another longstanding card with may of the same virtues of the R4 (in fact read somewhere that they are the same card), but comes in some different flavors (simply, real, etc). What is the difference in all of these...the M3 Real seems to be a perfect solution, combining reliability, compatibility and freq updates with the ability to use SDHC cards of higher capacity. Are my impressions at all accurate? Which of these do folks recommend for someone who really just wants to play lots of different games and have things be reliable and simple? All of the extras (pdas, etc.) don't mean much to me.
2. Slot 2 recommendations. The solutions I am looking at are the ezflash 3-in-1, the m3 lite, and the GBA expansion with the m3 real. Having a dedicated slot 2 card w/ all my games on it is appealing, which makes me prefer the m3 lite over the ezflash (although it would seem to mean needing 2 microSD cards, but the one for the slot 2 device could probably be pretty small and still hold a decent number of games, right?). Also, I have read that dedicated slot 2 cards are more difficult to use than the ezflash, is this true? How so? The GBA expansion with the M3 real is something I have seen mentioned and for sale, but really do not know anything about how it works, could someone explain it?
3. Finally, the m3 lite says it is includes nes and snes emulators how well do these work? (finally a simple straight forward question!!)
4. thought of one more, has anyone ordered from gameyeeeah.com? are they pretty reliable?
thanks in advance for your help and advice.
jay