Hacking Need 2slot card!

[Shaorin]

I'm looking for a 2-slot card that works with my R4.

- I want to be able to play any gba roms
- Real Time Clock
- To be able to transfer pokemon from any gba game to Diamond/Pearl game
- Huge storage space to fit many roms in
- Cheap price if possible

 

[4saken]

You're asking for the impossible.

The following things clash:

To be able to transfer pokemon from any gba game + huge storage.

If you want to choose between either, M3 Lite for everything except cheap price and nds-gba linkage,

OR

EZ3in1 for everything except storage. AND REAL TIME CLOCK

Both work with R4 flawlessly.

EDIT: It's worth to note that only the M3 Perfect has GBA support (Professional has tuned down support)

 

[Maikel Steneker]

I'm very content about my M3 Lite Perfect.

It runs all GBA-games I tried (even hard ones, like NES-classics), Real Time Clock works, you can buy as much memory for it as you like (it uses MicroSD-cards) but it's quite expansive and can't link the GBA Pokémon games with the DS ones...

You could also try the EZ 3 in 1. AFAIK it plays any GBA-game. I'm not sure about the Real Time Clock, but it should be in there... Linking GBA- and DS-Pokémon-games works with a patch, it's quite cheap but... It has storage for only one rom.

You could buy both of them. Use a MicroSD-card to put your GBA-roms on it, and play them on the M3 Lite. Whenever you want to link, you put the MicroSD-card in your R4 and flash a GBA-game to the EZ 3 in 1...

 

[Shaorin]

Does the EZ 3 in 1 need a memory card?

 

[TLSpartan]

No it has 256Mb built in Shaorin.

 

[Shaorin]

Does the EZ3in1 stick out? 256mb is like 16mb rom size? Does it come with a USB reader/writer?

 

[4saken]

Apparently it sticks out a bit (less than half a millimeter), and the finish is not glossy.

256Mb is equal to 32 megabytes, the largest size for any retail GBA game. You will need to use the slot 1 card (your R4) to write the game onto the NOR or PSRAM memory (you can have one on both at a time - IIRC they don't interfere with one another). You will not need a separate writer - the DS and Rudolphs Tool/GBALdr will do it for you

 

[MCTF]

I've got a M3 Perfect Lite + 1GB Kingston (JAP) and I'm quite pleased with it. The NDS-GBA transfers only really matter for Pokemon Diamond/Pearl wich I don't play, so I'm perfectly happy with a lot of GBA roms to choose from. 2GB of roms (1GB R4 + 1GB M3 Perfect) makes for a quite entertaining while

 

[Destructobot]

The 3-in-1 does not have an RTC.

It has the same amount of storage space as your slot 1 cart. All GBA games and saves are stored in the slot 1 cart except for the ones currently on the 3-in-1.

 

[Shaorin]

Oh if it doesn't have RTC then wouldn't that make you unable to play pokemon? unless it works without RTC

 

[Destructobot]

I think some of the pokemon games didn't have an RTC, and there are patches for the ones that do use it that allow the games to run on any flashcart.

 

[Shaorin]

Is there other 2slot cards that are in the progress of making the ability to link gba-ds?

 

[4saken]

Probably not.