Hello all, thought I might share my "luck" with you guys.
Well, it started like this. Mewgia, a friend from a different site, a regular here, introduced me to the DS scene. I've always wanted a G6DS Real, but as I was right about to buy it, the CycloDS Evolution came out, with lots of better features. OK, so I look for Canadian resellers on Team Cyclops' site, and I see Divineo (.ca). I think, ok, sounds nice. Average price for CycloDS, 55$. I go order it, confirm everything, and then realize I pay 80$. WTF? I look at the reciept emailed to me and I see that the 55$ was actually USD (wtf, in a .ca store), plus around 20$ of Shipping, Handling, and the 2 fucked up Quebec taxes (total to about 15%). Then I thought, well that's what people would pay. Then Mewgia tells me that that's WAY overpriced. And there's no way to cancel my order.
OK. Well, I guess that seeing as I can get games for free, that 80$ will pay off. Then I order a 1GB Kingston microSD card from NCIX for 10$. Good.
I arrive at home from shopping with my mom, and, Yipee! there it is sitting in the mailbox. I open it up, and then right after, the package from NCIX comes. I was happy since I found out that the card is from Japan. I load up some games and homebrew (yay, lemmings) on it, pop it in, and start playing Pokemon Diamond. Oh noes, the game freezes. No biggy, probably something with the initial launch. I reboot the DS only to find out that it displays "There is no DS Card inserted". Reboot a couple of times, and it works. After a couple of days, I get pretty annoyed and go check out the Team Cyclops forum. I later find out that many people have the same problem, and Team Cyclops replaces them for free. OK, I'll return it. 4 days later (after a trip to NYC), there it is in the mailbox. Good.
So I pop it in the DS, and it works! I play Pokemon for like 5 hours straight for 2 days. Next morning I wake up, and my sister wants to play. She turns on her DS phat and plays for a while. Game freezes then after a reboot, "There is no DS Card inserted". NO! What the fuck?. Today, I PM Team Cyclops and they reply:
Sweet, a free 2GB card. My parents think that my sister's DS fucks up the card, and with her hundreds of dollars, she goes buy herself a new DS Lite (pink, eww) with 100$ from my parents. She wanted a new one cause that DS phat is practically DESTROYED, scratches everywhere, badly broken hinge, etc etc.
Team Cyclops has the best customer service out of all the DS card brands. They have excellent support.
And here I am today, waiting for my replacement. I'll post updates here.
EDIT: They told me the card was going to be a Sandisk 2GB microSD.
EDIT 2: Look what I got in the mail today!
Thanks Team Cyclops!
Well, it started like this. Mewgia, a friend from a different site, a regular here, introduced me to the DS scene. I've always wanted a G6DS Real, but as I was right about to buy it, the CycloDS Evolution came out, with lots of better features. OK, so I look for Canadian resellers on Team Cyclops' site, and I see Divineo (.ca). I think, ok, sounds nice. Average price for CycloDS, 55$. I go order it, confirm everything, and then realize I pay 80$. WTF? I look at the reciept emailed to me and I see that the 55$ was actually USD (wtf, in a .ca store), plus around 20$ of Shipping, Handling, and the 2 fucked up Quebec taxes (total to about 15%). Then I thought, well that's what people would pay. Then Mewgia tells me that that's WAY overpriced. And there's no way to cancel my order.
OK. Well, I guess that seeing as I can get games for free, that 80$ will pay off. Then I order a 1GB Kingston microSD card from NCIX for 10$. Good.
I arrive at home from shopping with my mom, and, Yipee! there it is sitting in the mailbox. I open it up, and then right after, the package from NCIX comes. I was happy since I found out that the card is from Japan. I load up some games and homebrew (yay, lemmings) on it, pop it in, and start playing Pokemon Diamond. Oh noes, the game freezes. No biggy, probably something with the initial launch. I reboot the DS only to find out that it displays "There is no DS Card inserted". Reboot a couple of times, and it works. After a couple of days, I get pretty annoyed and go check out the Team Cyclops forum. I later find out that many people have the same problem, and Team Cyclops replaces them for free. OK, I'll return it. 4 days later (after a trip to NYC), there it is in the mailbox. Good.
So I pop it in the DS, and it works! I play Pokemon for like 5 hours straight for 2 days. Next morning I wake up, and my sister wants to play. She turns on her DS phat and plays for a while. Game freezes then after a reboot, "There is no DS Card inserted". NO! What the fuck?. Today, I PM Team Cyclops and they reply:
Team Cyclops said:
Sweet, a free 2GB card. My parents think that my sister's DS fucks up the card, and with her hundreds of dollars, she goes buy herself a new DS Lite (pink, eww) with 100$ from my parents. She wanted a new one cause that DS phat is practically DESTROYED, scratches everywhere, badly broken hinge, etc etc.
Team Cyclops has the best customer service out of all the DS card brands. They have excellent support.
And here I am today, waiting for my replacement. I'll post updates here.
EDIT: They told me the card was going to be a Sandisk 2GB microSD.
EDIT 2: Look what I got in the mail today!
Thanks Team Cyclops!
