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New Member Reviews

An excellent response to the member review competition





We've had a great response to the member review competition. 18 reviews have been submitted so far! Thank you very much to all the brilliant reviewers, you've submitted some great reviews.

Without further adieu here are the reviews:



Hardware:


Gamestop's DS Lite Case - by Golds


Nintendo WiFi USB Connector - by ACaed


EZF-Advance III - by Covarr


Flashme Vs. Passcard 3 - by Kirby102


DS Lite (US) - by coldflame152



NDS


NEW Super Mario Bros. - by teh_raf3


NEW Super Mario Bros. - by ShadowXP


Phoenix Wright - by Harsky


NEW Super Mario Bros. - by Harsky


Final Fantasy 3 (j) - by zoharmodifier


Tetris DS - by DarkRamza


Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! - by outphase



GBA


2-in-1! Dr. Mario & Puzzle League - by Covarr


Rhythm Tengoku - by coldflame152


Super Robot Taisen: OG - by blue99


Games Explosion! - by Covarr


Super Robot Taisen: OG 2 - by coldflame152


Summon Night: Swordcraft Story - by TheGreat2nd



Thank you all once again! We look forward to reading more reviews. Remember if you want details on the competition click on the banner on the left of the portal. Good luck everyone!

 

[Pikachu025]

@Flashme Vs. Passcard 3 - by Kirby102:

Flashme drains the battery faster? WTF? That's the first I've heard of this, and I seriously doubt it's true, given the nature of a firmware.

 

[Costello]

Yeah I was wondering too.
I'm confused, I don't use Flashme and I had never heard/read such a thing about Flashme.

 

[Kirby102]

This thread discussing it? What happened with PMs... Oh well nevermind.

But yeah, it seems to reduce it by 1 hour or so... for my DS. **Assuming if you didn't have original cart

And I also found that other people have/have not been affected by the battery drain:

Ok did a proper test this time with all the same settings.
And it clocked in at 4hrs 22Mins.
So in summary so far:

All using the same SuperCard MiniSD and the same battery leaving SuperMarioKart (must mean Mario Kart DS)
Full Brightness and max vol through headphones:

UnFLashed DS
Orginal Cart: 5hrs 10Mins
SuperKey in DS Slot: 4hrs 15Mins
SuperKey Removed: 4hrs 22Mins

FLASHED DS
DS Slot Empty: 4hrs 20 Mins
DS Slot with Cart: 4hrs 24 Mins
Using SuperCard Lite: 4hrs 24 Mins

So I conclude that having a flashed ds or superKey makes bugger all difference to battery life during normal play...for my DS.
I'm quite sure it makes a difference to the sleep mode though.
Not sure how I'm going to test that unless the difference is significantly different.....

KK

edit - Not as controlled as I would like, but I guess I could put the DS in sleep mode over night and then see how long the battery lasts coming back to the game in the morning.

source: http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=411...2e4bda14bb93ff9

I hope it did help you guys, and me

(oh noes, flaw in review *prays no -1pt on review*) :'(

 

[jonm]

I'm no expert but all of those times are similar except for the one using the original DS Cart. Surely this means that it is the Supercard draining the battery life and not the firmware as there is no mention of how the Flashed DS runs with just an original Cart

UnFLashed DS
Orginal Cart: 5hrs 10Mins
SuperKey in DS Slot: 4hrs 15Mins
SuperKey Removed: 4hrs 22Mins

FLASHED DS
DS Slot Empty: 4hrs 20 Mins
DS Slot with Cart: 4hrs 24 Mins
Using SuperCard Lite: 4hrs 24 Mins

 

[Kirby102]

...as there is no mention of how the Flashed DS runs with just an original Cart

I'm not flaming you or anything, more info the better for everyone...

FLASHED DS
DS Slot Empty: 4hrs 20 Mins
DS Slot with Cart: 4hrs 24 Mins
Using SuperCard Lite: 4hrs 24 Mins

I might be guessing that would be the original cart, as the use of a passthrough device is unnecessary anymore. Although his results weren't very specific in categories (it could be game and SCLite in at the same time, we don't know), so I wouldn't be the judge of his times.

 

[jonm]

sorry, I thought the last one was with superkey and I thought all 3 had the Supercard, but I see now

 

[aegis2k]

GREAT REVIEWS GUYS!

I found the review of the Japanese games very useful. I hope there are more reviews of these wonderful import oportunities. One small suggestion in these reviews would be the inclusion of the 'language-barrier-difficulty' levels of the imports, so we know if the game is playable by Engilsh talking people with ot without major problems.

KEEP THOSE REVIEWS COMING!

(does my review of the review counts as a review? :-)

 

[dice]

i wouldn't post the reviews until the competition's over because people can get some ideas from them and use it in some way for their own.