Hacking MicroSd for SCDSTWO

[Greatforce]

Oh man, im confused now. Everyone is telling me different things =/

 

[exangel]

Sometimes when people helping you start to argue with each other you have to start paying attention to who's more concerned with helping you, and who's more concerned with being right or having the last word. That's the best advice I can offer here, I haven't done much research on or used many flash memory products.

 

[EJames2100]

I'll share my experience with you.

I have a 8GB SDHC Card(Un-Branded) - Class 4
Never had any problems with this card, Reads perfectly fine, saves fine albeit a little slow but nothing to worry about.

I have a 4GB SDHC Card(Also Un-branded) - Class 6
It was better at Read Speed and Write Speed on my pc so that'll cut time putting games on.
It reads perfectly fine in the DS and it saves much faster than a Class 4 Card.

I have no experience with Class 2 Cards but their are slower at reading and writing, so on pc it'll be slower for backing up and writing games, they may have lag in game-play as some say and they probably save pretty slow too.

I would recommend future proofing, spend a little more and get a Class 6 card.
They go pretty cheap(About £14 for an 8GB Class 6 Card) and are worth it for the extra speed.

I dunno much about Labels and such as I've not had any experience with them, both my cards came un-labaled, but they did have Taiwan on them, so either there's a company called Taiwan or they came from there lol

Hope the info helps

 

[Greatforce]

I've done a little search on google and came up with

It might be against all advice you guys gave me, but can you give me a opinion about it?

Btw, it goes for 12,99 EUR

Anyone?

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Just wanted to say: please don't 'bump' your topic if it's only been an hour since something was last posted.

Anyways, that looks like a good card, but seeing it's only 4GB you might want to go ahead and buy two of them, or buy an 8GB version for a couple more euros.

 

[Greatforce]

But do i really need more? Im just planning on playing a few DS games, music files, etc. I really dont think i will even use 4GB

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Unless you're going to be playing small games and have only 128 kbps MP3 music files on it, you're going to need more space. LOTS more. I have 2 1GB cards, 2 2GB cards and 1 8GB card and I still don't have enough space for everything.

 

[Greatforce]

Say, i am gonna put 10 games at a time on the SD, say 1 game is 200 MB, i still would be having 2gb free space. Or are the most games bigger then 200~ MB?

I just cant find a good shop who has 8Gb cards, not to expensive, who ships in Europe ( The Netherlands )

 

[exangel]

most of my RPG games are 40-125mb trimmed (all useless "padding" data removed)
most of my Misc/Puzzle games are 12-64mb trimmed
only one i've seen dramatically large is Kingdom Hearts (over 200mb), and I think America's Test Kitchen is even bigger than that but I'm not interested in that "game" so I'm not sure

There are two good standalone trimmers out there, NDSTokyoTrim and TinyTrimmer, I believe both are on FileTrip, I'll find links for you if you can't.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Say, i am gonna put 10 games at a time on the SD, say 1 game is 200 MB, i still would be having 2gb free space. Or are the most games bigger then 200~ MB?

I just cant find a good shop who has 8Gb cards, not to expensive, who ships in Europe ( The Netherlands )

Largest ROMs now are 512 MB untrimmed, there aren't a lot of them though. However there are a lot of 256MB games. And 128MB seems to be the average nowadays. So, I suggest you first download the games and music/whatever you like, see how much space that takes up, add 2GB to that just to be 'future proof'. Then see how much it comes down to and buy the card that's best fit for what you need.

 

[Greatforce]

most of my RPG games are 40-125mb trimmed (all useless "padding" data removed)
most of my Misc/Puzzle games are 12-64mb trimmed
only one i've seen dramatically large is Kingdom Hearts (over 200mb), and I think America's Test Kitchen is even bigger than that but I'm not interested in that "game" so I'm not sure

There are two good standalone trimmers out there, NDSTokyoTrim and TinyTrimmer, I believe both are on FileTrip, I'll find links for you if you can't.

What kind of data does a ''trimmed'' rom delete?

 

[Berthenk]

A trimmer deletes useless data from the ROM.
A game card/cart has a set amount of memory, and games won't exceed this amount. Any room/space not used is filled with zero's, which the trimmer deletes.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Also, most trimmers trim ROMs so that, if the ROM has Wi-Fi capabilities, the Wi-Fi part won't be erased. Make sure to check if you're using a good trimmer (I suggest NDS TokyoTrim) so that nothing important gets removed.

 

[Greatforce]

Might aswell post it here.

I've downloaded a few roms, but they dont seem to work on the N0$gba, am i gonna have so much trouble with finding a good rom for my actual DS too?

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

No$GBA has problems with loads of ROMs. But the DSTWO doesn't. So don't worry.