New Slot-1 Comparison Guide!

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very nice work there.
its pretty awesome to see all that information, very helpful.

but the products are getting so good. its still very hard to choose.

R4, EZ-Flash V, Supercard one and the M3 simply, seems all very good choice.

now, what do we choose, that's a hard one, doesn't it?
 
Looks like the R4 is the best overall for price and performance...thanks This is awesome!!!!!!
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What a great resource that comparator is, many thanks. It would be awesome to see that technology in the future used for other comparisons such as slot 2 cards, or passmes/nopasses, a bit like Qrayzie's existing PDF chart linked from http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=33429

A couple of things:

1, In the 'Physical dimensions' row, all the entries say 'Same as original DS cart' so there's nothing to really compare there. Maybe it would be best to use this row to look more closely at the issue - for example some cards have a bulge under the label where one of the chips sticks out. By mentioning those issues that row would then become useful.

2, In 'NDS homebrew compatibility' it might be good to change the DSLink's entry to 'Not great originally, but DLDI fixes it' to match the other entries.

3, What does the 'Uses loader or firmware' row mean? I always thought that, in the context of these devices, loader and firmware meant the same thing.

4, I agree with one of the above posters that the use of ticks and crosses is a little strange in some rows. Specifically, the 'Flashed DS required' and 'Splash screen' rows have nice green ticks where actually the red crosses are preferable, so maybe you could negate the row headings (e.g. 'Doesn't require flashed DS', 'Doesn't suffer from a splash screen').

5, Similarly, the row 'Connection to computer' doesn't really need ticks and crosses at all as neither is really 'better' than the other - it could just say 'via Onbard miniUSB port USB2' or 'via removable media' as appropriate.

6, Again similarly, the rows 'Built-in memory' and 'Removable media' rather than having ticks and crosses making it look like one method is preferable to another could just be combined into one row called something like 'Memory type' saying either '512 megabytes built-in memory' or 'MicroSD/Transflash'. You could also use this row to say the max size of SD card if appropriate.

7, It would be nice to see in the table which cards are side or top-loading for the removable media (with 'N/A' for DS-Xtreme). Again I would suggest that you don't put a tick or cross on this, as some people prefer side-loading (to protect the card) and some prefer top-loading (if they frequently change roms).

8, It would also be nice to see in the table which cards have spring-loaded or non-spring-loaded slots. For this row I guess you could use ticks and crosses as I think it's pretty unanimous that spring-loaded is better (although I suppose it's one more thing that could break).

Hope you don't mind all these suggestions!
 
4, I agree with one of the above posters that the use of ticks and crosses is a little strange in some rows. Specifically, the 'Flashed DS required' and 'Splash screen' rows have nice green ticks where actually the red crosses are preferable, so maybe you could negate the row headings (e.g. 'Doesn't require flashed DS', 'Doesn't suffer from a splash screen').
How about green crosses and red ticks in these rows?
 
One thing I don't like about the comparison is a very low update frequency is made to look bad. Think about this, if you make a product that needs constant updating versus one that doesn't which would you take?

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1, In the 'Physical dimensions' row, all the entries say 'Same as original DS cart' so there's nothing to really compare there. Maybe it would be best to use this row to look more closely at the issue - for example some cards have a bulge under the label where one of the chips sticks out. By mentioning those issues that row would then become useful.
Unless they review that slot 1 ninja card that wraps around the bottom.
 
i just wanted to know if you could add the latest firmware/loader revision into the list; that would be helpful to just pop in and check it there for the people that already have the cart.. i think
 
Still no ninja ds? this card did seem relatively promising, also maybe a kind of overall column for the DSFire/DSLinker/Other ones that use the slot 2 writing device...
 
awesome! I should have noticed this before, but I didn't. M3 Simply doesn't have as many features, but they called it simply for a good reason!

In any case, I'm sticking with it's simplicity and elegance.
 
Yeah... r4 definitely seems like the way to go, but it seems like this chart is rather outdated... would anyone advise buying the CycloDS Evolution at this point, or should I wait for some less expensive, better quality slot-1 card that supports download play over the r4 as it stands?
 
I bought a R4 and Kingston 2GB MicroSD (Japan)..will let you know what I think, once I have a chance to play with it (the R4 that is..hehe).
 

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