I'd only add games as I want to play them and keep the ones that I have not finished. I'd rather always have space for new games than try to fit as much as I can to take with me. I'd eventually fill it up, but for the time being I would only have maybe 3 or 4 games on it. I don't bounce around a lot playing games so I stick with a few then move on when I finish or get bored.
Hacking Multi-ROM essentials - File sizes: which games stay on your cart?
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Funny.. I just bought a 64GB micro sd card..
Glad to confirm it will work for my purposes. hehehehe 
Funny.. I just bought a 64GB micro sd card..
Let us know which model and whether it works
How would that be possible? Once you are already in emuNAND mode, or Gateway Mode, the dangerous part is essentially over. Most people who brick, only do so when running diagnostics and actually booting into Gateway Mode in the first place.
I can confirm, at least from my own personal experience, that even corrupted flashes of 3DS ROMs doesn't brick your device. I was trying to play Disney Epic Mickey last night, and my microSD card got jostled loose of my laptop during the disk image process. It still showed up on my 3DS, but I got errors when trying to boot it. I just reflashed the image again, and it worked perfectly.
Trimming ROMs doesn't change a single file that the Gateway 3DS card installs, and doesn't touch the SD card or any partitions whatsoever. Just makes it possible to fit bigger games on smaller cards, or more games on a multi-ROM cart.
I can confirm, at least from my own personal experience, that even corrupted flashes of 3DS ROMs doesn't brick your device. I was trying to play Disney Epic Mickey last night, and my microSD card got jostled loose of my laptop during the disk image process. It still showed up on my 3DS, but I got errors when trying to boot it. I just reflashed the image again, and it worked perfectly.
Trimming ROMs doesn't change a single file that the Gateway 3DS card installs, and doesn't touch the SD card or any partitions whatsoever. Just makes it possible to fit bigger games on smaller cards, or more games on a multi-ROM cart.
might be a really tight fit none the less, as 32GiB translates to 29GB. Add (or better detract) some FS overhead and partially filled sectors and you will most likely have to leave one of those games off the card.
at least for the NDS it was mostly the other way around, as european releases tend to have more languages included.
Not that I have seen, but there are many US games that have not been dumped yet. Hence why I have the EUR versions of Bravely Default, Naruto Powerful Shippuden and Project X Zone. In almost all cases, the EUR ROMs are slightly larger than the US versions. If I could rip individual languages like I could on PSP ISOs, I totally would. I am pretty miserly about my storage space.
Yes, sadly many roms sites seem to be missing a lot of games, or only have either USA or EUR version up. I'd love if it was possible to keep all DS and 3DS games on the same cart, even so 32GB may just be enough. I'm holding my money until GW releases FW 2.0 and I see the feedback, but my 3DS will definitely have both Harvest Moon, Rune Factory 4, both Zeldas, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers and Shin Megami Tensei IV. I'm so saddened that there is no metroidvania for the 3DS (and might be there never will...) T_T
So is there no disadvantage to trimming? (allow me to give an example in PSP terms) It's not like the rom is compressed like a .cso but runs slower than a normal .iso in PSP?
So is there no disadvantage to trimming? (allow me to give an example in PSP terms) It's not like the rom is compressed like a .cso but runs slower than a normal .iso in PSP?
Same exact speed, from what I have seen so far. Then again, I never noticed much of a difference with CSOs on my PSP, either. Now, if you remove the update partition, you cannot reverse that, and it may cause any patches in the future for that specific ROM to fail to be able to be applied, but there's a simple solution; just acquire the untouched ROM again, same way you got your original one.
I sat there and flashed and tested every single one of my ROMs, individually, after trimming them and removing the update. So, I can at least attest that all of the games I listed work 100% fine when trimmed and de-updated.
I sat there and flashed and tested every single one of my ROMs, individually, after trimming them and removing the update. So, I can at least attest that all of the games I listed work 100% fine when trimmed and de-updated.
For the rom tool, you may not have to even type out the whole name. I haven't used it before, but you may be able to type the first few characters of the rom name, then press tab and it does the rest for you. At least that's how it works for most things in cmd or terminal.
Anyway, I plan on swappingthe 64gb microSD in my phone with a 32gb I have since I don't really use all the space.
Anyway, I plan on swappingthe 64gb microSD in my phone with a 32gb I have since I don't really use all the space.
Tbh, Muli-ROM isn't a huge deal for me as I tend to always finish one game before moving onto the next one. I'll probably just fill the microSD with games and when I'm done with them, replace them with others.
'Tbh, Muli-ROM isn't a huge deal for me as I tend to always finish one game before moving onto the next one. I'll probably just fill the microSD with games and when I'm done with them, replace them with others. '
My kids are the opposite, they'll play a game for a while then want a different one in. It was dead easy with their DSi's whan all ROMS were on one memory card, but the current one ROM to one card is a pain the backside.
I know most people here seem to have Gateways but any idea if a multiROM memory card will soon be on the offing for the r4i?
My kids are the opposite, they'll play a game for a while then want a different one in. It was dead easy with their DSi's whan all ROMS were on one memory card, but the current one ROM to one card is a pain the backside.
I know most people here seem to have Gateways but any idea if a multiROM memory card will soon be on the offing for the r4i?
From what I've read, the r4i hardware isn't capable of being upgraded to support multiROM. Apparently Gateway made it so their hardware was upgradeable to support the future release of multiROM, where as the clones didn't.
ah reet! I suppose I'll have to shell out for a couple of new cards if a multi ROM appears then, ta
