New Flash Kit: Acekard R.P.G. announced! *Update*

[fryguy]

W00t! when i first read it i thought it had 8gbit capacity but if thats actually 8gigabyte its pretty impressive!

 

[pkprostudio]

I'm not going to spend more than $50 on it.

I won't need it anyway. 1GB is enough for me, as I don't keep games after I finish them. (Only exception is EBA, which I didn't play for a couple of weeks now.) R4 is good, and it boots fast enough. The GUI is really great, and I am happy with it. I don't need a flash card with 8GB and another 1GB just because it's "cool" and "awesome".

 

[CannonBallZ]

W00t! when i first read it i thought it had 8gbit capacity but if thats actually 8gigabyte its pretty impressive!

I was thinking 8 gigabytes, yeh right...will be just as expensive as an ipod mini.

I am erring on the side of thinking that it's probably an engrish translation error, 8 gigabits more like...
and for those saying that R4 is way better, pshhh...stop being such fanboys, i love the R4 but the features claimed for this is quite impressive

 

[Wuschmaster]

yeah $50 is the MAXIMUM i'd pay, because i already have two NDS flash carts

 

[constellation]

Yeah, it'll probably cost a lot, and be way out of my budget. But for 8 GB, and the extra microSD slot, the price may be justified.

The only reason I think I'll need that much space though is if I use my DS as a video player. But I think I'll pass on that, just not a fan of Moonshell's interface.

Open-source seems promising, though. If enough developers collaborate on this, we might see some amazing stuff. So, I guess it just depends on the price point they're selling this at. I still see no reason to get one if you already have an R4, though.

 

[NotAgOat]

Hmmm I wonder what these people are thinking, how are they not impressed by this? I mean OPEN SOURCED, automatic trimming, two separate storage!

I especially don't see why R4 still can't be beaten, in my eyes it is already beaten by the CycloDS Evolution...

I agree with everything said.

 

[yooeee]

8GB is overkill. they should down it to 4GB. I"m finding that 2GB is great for a selection of games outside of the 100+MB games, those sorta take too much space for me. 4GB would be plenty, plus microsd is great.

 

[Mewgia]

This should be an "oh fuck yes" moment, I believe.

Even if the team cannot make the hardware happen completely, There's still one major feature that will remain:

It's an open-source cart.

This is the card I've been yearning for. even if they cannot deliver 100% download play compat, it has been proven by the Cyclo team that you can improve that via firmware. And even if the team doesn't do that, someone will.

I do hope, though, that they offer a cheaper version as well; this would be the "premium" version, while a cheaper version has only 1-2GBs of on-board memory. 8GBs of nand is very costly, and this will almost certainly cost more than a DS-X.

Also, idiot R4 fanboys are idiots.

 

[Hiratai]

Does the Cyclo have something more to destroy, now?

 

[RyuKakashi]

alright finally something that'll compete for cyclods's throne! (take that r4 fanboys!)

i can only imagine the cart being priced at the least $150 but acekard's have always been cheaper than what they should be.

the auto trim scares me cause it might have problems with compadibility? although i haven't heard of anyone break a rom with trimming.

oh to think open source was on the april fool's joke flashcart =P

 

[Evilkoko]

Features sound great but doesn't warrant me switching from my r4.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

8GB of onboard memory as well as a Micro SDHC slot? I fear a high price.

On a side note, the build quality looks top notch and very rugged.

 

[stop_loading]

why people aren't impressed by this? this sounds like the ULTIMATE flash card, minus the download play compatibility

R4 and cyclo share the same problem, slow microSD bandwidth killing some of the game speed, like CoR crashing or THDJ running slow, now with this, you dont have to be picky with your microSD card anymore, you can run in directly in the flash memory, not to mention we can go back and forth from the NAND flash to microSD, you dont even need a card reader anymore

and also this:
"Acekard R.P.G simulates the original game cart which makes it able to play all the new released NDS games (Clean roms) without updating the kernels."

now both R4 and CycloDS have failed being future proof since some small percentage of the games don't work, now i'm not exactly believe acekard's claim, but if it's proven right, then i'm sold on this card

 

[felix123]

Is there an official source where it says 8GB? It does sound a bit too big.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Is there an official source where it says 8GB? It does sound a bit too big.


Yup. From shaun's first post,

QUOTEThe team behind the original Acekard have today announced its successor, the Acekard R.P.G. (Real Play Gear). This highly interesting slot-1 device is the first slot-1 flash kit to boast two completely separate storage solutions; the Acekard R.P.G. has both 8GB (gigabytes) of on-board NAND flash memory and a micro SDHC card slot, this allows for a potentially massive amount of file storage. The Acekard R.P.G. also features an on-board USB connector which appears to be used for writing to the NAND flash.

 

[felix123]

That's not an official source though.

 

[coolbho3000]

I can see this costing over 100USD >_>

Yeah, it'll be expensive, but very very good.

How much money would the 8GB of flash memory cost? $50 on its own?

 

[cubin']

quite an impressive card but my R4 works fine for what I want a flashcard to do. + it's gonna be very expensive

 

[GeekShadow]

Yeah impressive features...

But! But! What about Wii/DS Support ? That's THE feature for me

 

[Hiratai]

Features sound great but doesn't warrant me switching from my r4.

The R4 doesn't even have features.