AFAIK, the M3 does GBA almost as well as the ol' EFA.
AFAIK, the M3 does NDS almost as well as the SCLite.
AFAIK GBA on the M3 is 100% (compatibility, no slowdown) unless you enable the real time save, in which case the compatibility takes a bit of a dive.
AFAIK NDS is better on the M3 because it has more frequent updates than the SC.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
well, it's argumentative I suppose. With the M3 you have to load the GBA game to RAM, which takes some time which I consider equivalent to a slowdown. With the EFA or any old-school GBA cart, loading is instant and all aspects of play are identical to having the real cart. The EFA biggest strength was being able to handle all the funky FLASH save types that came along, such as with SMA4(SMB3), without first applying an SRAMsavepatch to the ROM. I don't know how M3 handles this -perhaps as well as the EFA.
The M3's strength vs. any oldschool flashcart of course is capacity. You get oodles more. But I still prefer hardwired RAM for GBA. You'd have a hard time convincing me there isn't a design advantage there.
As for DS, yeah the M3 team was coming out with updates like every other day back in September when Supercard took a break. It's like they knew SC was going on vacation for a month so they made the most of it. But frequent updates or not, I've never been gnashing my teeth because I can't play some game on my SC. Even if the official updates aren't as frequent, patched versions of the new releases come out in the meantime. That way you don't have to be updating constantly.
Hey, what I posted was my opinion. I'm thinking about getting an M3Lite so it's not like I'm biased or anything. That or the new 8gbit G6L when it comes out. Can't ever have too many of these things.
