New Slot-1 Comparison Guide!

[Opium]

WTH?

Aside from the well implemented compare feature you seem to be INTENT on ignoring other solutions on the market.

I've asked several times in your original incarnation here to list the X9TF:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=38183

Regardless of whether you think it's a poor product or not please BE FAIR and list it. It *did* make it to the market and (to the best of my knowledge) is *still* being actively updated. It's poor review or personal opinions shouldn't preclude it from being listed on the chart.

I really had expected better when I saw the headline. I now see that nothing has changed.

As Costello said we plan to update it with all existing slot-1 solutions. We aren't ignoring a specific flashcart on purpose. It's a matter of releasing this chart now with some of the more common slot-1's then add in all the others when we can. All the staff here are very busy people and we're constantly working on things behind the scenes. I'm sure the X9 will be added to the comparison chart

 

[iisdev]

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[Costello]

yeah, there's a conspiracy going on here... the flash kit manufacturers have all paid us well.. EXCEPT the X9 team, aha! that's why it's not included!

...

seriously... what Opium said is true.
We've been working very hard on this system for two entire days, and I've even made it easy to add new slot1's to the chart (I even say it in the main post!) so the X9 is on the wait list.
We entered the info for the top 6 slot1's, and obviously the X9 is not one of them... not according to our criteria.

ps: look it's 4:30 am, give me a break, I'll add your X9 to the chart tomorrow allright? I've been working until about 2:30 on it so it feels weird to read comments like yours.

 

[BoneMonkey]

costello and opium have to stay curteous but i dont so here go

x9 sucks i would rather crawl naked on a mile of glass on my stomach then to even play the x9 for 1 second

and your as smart as a mule and twice as ugly

 

[lookout]

This what I call a NDS Comparison Guide! ~ Great work guys!

 

[bullet007]

costello and opium have to stay curteous but i dont so here go

x9 sucks i would rather crawl naked on a mile of glass on my stomach then to even play the x9 for 1 second

and your as smart as a mule and twice as ugly

Now, are you saying that the X9 sucks because you heard other people say it sucks? Or did you have one/did some research on it?

Bad GUI?

There is a current GUI beta out there that greatly improves GUI and allows for skinning.
On top of that, the winner of the user-created GUI contest's GUI is being made right now.

Horrible Rom compatibility?

The only games that do not work on it as of beta3b loader are Cars (saving problems), Monster Bomber, Monster House, and Pokemon D&P.

Bad case color?

It comes with both clear and black, and there is a pink one, but harder to find.


In reality, the only real problem with it is that the saves on some non-popular games sometimes corrupt. I myself have played and beaten tons of games (NSMB, FFIII, EBA, and more) on my X9 and have yet to encounter any corruption.

 

[perkele]

On the M3 and R4 you put "rom trimmer" as a feature and on the Supercard DS you put "patcher" as a feature. Why doesn't the EZV have their hybrid tool, which can patch and trim roms as a feature?

Also the link to the EZflash website is wrong, it should be http://www.ezflash.cn, thus without a dash.

 

[RexNebular]

You should mention that the DS-X requires Windows to update the OS/firmware. I suggest a comment in the "Updatable OS" row.

 

[Opium]

On the M3 and R4 you put "rom trimmer" as a feature and on the Supercard DS you put "patcher" as a feature. Why doesn't the EZV have their hybrid tool, which can patch and trim roms as a feature?

Also the link to the EZflash website is wrong, it should be http://www.ezflash.cn, thus without a dash.

I noticed these problems with the EZ-V listing too. Hybrid tool will be added to the additional features part, touch screen menu description will be fixed and so will the site url.

 

[AionSkull]

this chart makes me o-so-happy with my M3.
i do have to point out however, it does have a splash screen that says "Loading" that lasts for less then a second... guess that doesnt count.

 

[rant]

A good chart, but I think you should add the information on what comes with the card, i.e. does it come with a card reader, manual and/or additional colors.

 

[Monkey01]

Nice,
Small question though, in R4, you've listed skinnable OS, as

with a green background, which means it's a good point about the R4, which is ok I guess. But the skinnability basically only consists of changing 4 background images. Well anyway, now the EZ-V also has a

in skinnable OS, but with the comment "Via Moonshell" and then it doesn't get a green background... why not? In EZ-V much more is skinnable then only the background, so I think the skinnability is actually better then R4 and should deserve it's green background.

 

[Psyfira]

Fantastic idea! I didn't realise you guys had one before, but this is an excellent starting place for pre review-reading research. Nice one, and definitely worth all the effort you lot've put in (it shows)

I hate to pick holes when you've done such a good job, but... tiny CSS niggle: if you resize the window horizontally the table resizes with it, but the tickboxes don't so you lose them off the right side :S Not too much of an issue now but as the list of carts gets longer they'll run off the screen.

[Edit] I've just realised it's a scrolling div.

Is it possible to move the horizontal scrollbar to the top of the div where the tickboxes are?

 

[APPS]

Would be nice to have the ninja DS in their, aswell as the Acekard... but meh...

Also, forgive me if im wrong but i thought the ds link can play gba games if the gba link is pluged into slot 2...

 

[spookymuffin]

You guys really need to re-review the DS-Xtreme. 9.5 is waaaaay too high for something that costs up to three times as much as the others, and doesn't have removable media. It might have been awesome when it first came out (omg LEDs!), but it's losing steam FAST.

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the great chart, but M3 does have a support forum at: http://www.m3-forum.com

 

[ninjedi]

Good work.
One comment:
Under R4 (probably same with M3) it states that Touch Screen OS "only main screen is touch sensitive".
On my R4 ALL menus are touch sensitive. For example, in the Games menu I can launch an application or game by touching the icon.

Chowder.

 

[Qpido]

I was reading it and I was thinking the same thing.

Would be cool if they put in a scroll thingy so you could scroll with you stylus.

Q~

 

[faceless]

You guys really need to re-review the DS-Xtreme. 9.5 is waaaaay too high for something that costs up to three times as much as the others, and doesn't have removable media. It might have been awesome when it first came out (omg LEDs!), but it's losing steam FAST.

the chart should just have facts, not review scores.

 

[Monkey01]

You guys really need to re-review the DS-Xtreme. 9.5 is waaaaay too high for something that costs up to three times as much as the others, and doesn't have removable media. It might have been awesome when it first came out (omg LEDs!), but it's losing steam FAST.

the chart should just have facts, not review scores.


It's a fact that the cart's gbatemp review got that score.

Hmneh, I think having the review score in the list is fine, cause if the list would look fine, and suddenly the score is very low, you will check out the review before making your decision to check out why it's scored so low. If the score wouldn't be there, you might take a wrong decision anyway...
QUOTE(ninjedi @ Jan 21 2007, 04:37 PM)Good work.
One comment:
Under R4 (probably same with M3) it states that Touch Screen OS "only main screen is touch sensitive".
On my R4 ALL menus are touch sensitive. For example, in the Games menu I can launch an application or game by touching the icon.

Chowder.

Hmm, so you must select the game with the +buttons, then what's the use of the touch screen if the selecting already goes with the buttons, then the touch screen has no other purpose then an A button. I think it mainly wants to say that the game selecting is not doable by touch screen...