Hacking M3 Lite Review

[DeVS]

Devs, good job on the review, just that people totally new to this might not make the direct connection the people that have used m3's can.

Ya your right, I should have been more clear for people not familiar with the M3.

 

[Zap]

Nice review. Though, it would be nice to see some power consumption testing as I'm sure many people are curious about this issue as well.

I'm just waiting for the "M3 lite vs Supercard lite" threads to come flooding in.

 

[tama_mog]

I've been using old m3 sd, supercard lites, g6 3rd gens, and g6 lites....the m3 lite is coming in and I will write my impressions of the device soon as I got some time to play with it. I'll try to do a 2gb sandisk vs a 1gb sandisk ultra II comparison on the castlevania test as well. Won't spend the time to do a whole review but should give you guys a good point of reference compared to other carts and how the m3 lite holds up.

 

[PeterFile]

Yes, it can play it's own movies, and here's a print screen of the converter. It converts them into a gbm and gbs file - gbm being the video and gbs being the sound.

And here's an example of one, which i downloaded a long time ago from www.gbatmw.net . Just shove these on your card and go to "movies"

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WUZ5TUT7 (1.3MB Zipped)

 

[yuwing]

when i had m3 miniSD, i used the M3 crystal converter and the videos i made wasn't exactly very good compared to dpg.

 

[PeterFile]

Regardless, the review says that the inbuilt movie player is just moonshell, when in fact it does have a different one.

 

[nightwalker]

how long does it take to convert the videos?

 

[TheVirus]

DS Organize works on the M3 Mini SD V2, Green version. Works fine, saves stuff, it's great. Just copy it over and hit START to run it. It never worked before, but it does now.

I'd like to know if you need to reencode the videos to anything specific (PocketDivXEncoder is free and easy).

 

[tlogank]

So like many of you, I have had high hopes for the M3Lite. I got the M3Lite in the mail today...looks great-BUT, compared to my SCLite using the same vanilla Kingston 1GB MicroSD card-this thing is SLOOOOOOW! It does not pass the Castlevania, Tony Hawk, or the Animal Crossing test. I was going to sell my SCLite to a friend, but it looks like I will be selling him the M3Lite instead, as I don't want to have any problems in the future with any fast rendering games that may come out and cause hesitiation on the M3Lite. Like I said, it looks great, slides in and out easily, but NDS compatibility (and DSOrganize) is still a few notches away from SCLite.

 

[lenselijer]

you use the 27 firmware onto it?

I had no problems with my 512mb kingston microsd card in castlevania...

 

[tlogank]

you use the 27 firmware onto it?

I had no problems with my 512mb kingston microsd card in castlevania...

yep, the latest firmware...re-downloaded it to be sure...same result.

 

[waiwai]

you use the 27 firmware onto it?

I had no problems with my 512mb kingston microsd card in castlevania...

yep, the latest firmware...re-downloaded it to be sure...same result.

What is the read-speed of that 512MB kingston?

I have not received my M3Lite yet, but got a Sandisk ultraII 1GB waiting for it...

 

[tama_mog]

your ultra 2 will work fine and it is technically a faster card than that kingston card.

Here's a thread to help you out:

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=36544

 

[aliquis]

So like many of you, I have had high hopes for the M3Lite. I got the M3Lite in the mail today...looks great-BUT, compared to my SCLite using the same vanilla Kingston 1GB MicroSD card-this thing is SLOOOOOOW!  It does not pass the Castlevania, Tony Hawk, or the Animal Crossing test.  I was going to sell my SCLite to a friend, but it looks like I will be selling him the M3Lite instead, as I don't want to have any problems in the future with any fast rendering games that may come out and cause hesitiation on the M3Lite.  Like I said, it looks great, slides in and out easily, but NDS compatibility (and DSOrganize) is still a few notches away from SCLite.

Format it with FAT16 64k clusters and nothing will lag, and use E27a of course.

Saves have already been answered but I guess it saves in battery backed up memory until next time you happen to reboot and then moves it over to the microsd.