An idea popped in my mind about the Gateway 3ds cart. Could you please look into it and tell if that is possible.
Q. Could somehow a large sized microsd card say of 32Gb be divided into smaller partitons of say 2 or 4gb sizes and then if they can be used to play different games which are loaded on the different partitions.
Being an CS engg student i think this quite possible on the software part and i am not talking about the 3ds software but about the software which drives the microcontrollers (if they can be used on the flash card).
Don't know much about the hardware part but is it possible to design the Flash cart which could read those seperate partitions imagining them as different Sd cards (well its all Address Space for the controller to read maybe it can be done).
There could be a PRESET which is designed for 4-6 partitons on the 32GB sdcard and those coulde be switched by a simple sliding switch on the Flash cart which would in deed change the address space which is to be read by the Flash cart for the game ROM.
PS: This is just an idea. Maybe it was useless and can't be done or maybe it is possible theoretically
[ I have seen CAR music systems sometimes reading the 1st partiton of my USB drive and some Audio systems reading the 2nd partition just saying ]
Do reply if you guys think that something could be made out of this thing.
I sent an email to the gateway 3ds team about this and they sent me a reply in just an hour telling that they forwarded it to the Technical team, could it mean that this could be achievable??
Here is the email
Q. Could somehow a large sized microsd card say of 32Gb be divided into smaller partitons of say 2 or 4gb sizes and then if they can be used to play different games which are loaded on the different partitions.
Being an CS engg student i think this quite possible on the software part and i am not talking about the 3ds software but about the software which drives the microcontrollers (if they can be used on the flash card).
Don't know much about the hardware part but is it possible to design the Flash cart which could read those seperate partitions imagining them as different Sd cards (well its all Address Space for the controller to read maybe it can be done).
There could be a PRESET which is designed for 4-6 partitons on the 32GB sdcard and those coulde be switched by a simple sliding switch on the Flash cart which would in deed change the address space which is to be read by the Flash cart for the game ROM.
PS: This is just an idea. Maybe it was useless and can't be done or maybe it is possible theoretically
[ I have seen CAR music systems sometimes reading the 1st partiton of my USB drive and some Audio systems reading the 2nd partition just saying ]
Do reply if you guys think that something could be made out of this thing.
I sent an email to the gateway 3ds team about this and they sent me a reply in just an hour telling that they forwarded it to the Technical team, could it mean that this could be achievable??
Here is the email