its only a matter of time until rudolph finds the right code to use the expansion ram. DO NOT, and i have to repeat -- DO NOT -- buy a 3-in-1 for rumble. it drains the 3v battery you need for sram saving and it basically sucks. you would be better off buying metroid pinball with the retail rumble pack if thats all you want. tell you dad that a 3-in-1 will allow you to play a library of over 2700 gba roms and 400 known gba homebrew games/apps. not to mention you can flash any .ds.gba game/app (well anything under 32megs) over to the nor and launch it via passme using your slot1. eventually when cory or rudolph are able to get the right set of code to boot the ram the opera browser, linux, quakeII, etc, can all be played with and enjoyed.
if your dad still isn't sold tell him you will take out the trash for 2 months. the thing only costs 19 bucks as it is. you could always collect pop cans and return them for the 5 cents.
-another world