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Tracking remaining charge in a battery is a spotty business... A percentage would be similarly inaccurate as the bars, just slightly less so.
It's sort of like tracking GSM 'connectivity' with bars, very unreliable stuff.
I wish at least that there'd be a full cfw which had mildly more accurate features as such, but alas... That's not likely to happen, and this 'homebrew' would be like an application, and would only be of use when executed. Which means you'll only see anything while it is loaded.
Don't get me wrong, as an idea, it's not crazy and it's not a bad idea. It's just not hugely possible, right now anyway.
It's sort of like tracking GSM 'connectivity' with bars, very unreliable stuff.
I wish at least that there'd be a full cfw which had mildly more accurate features as such, but alas... That's not likely to happen, and this 'homebrew' would be like an application, and would only be of use when executed. Which means you'll only see anything while it is loaded.
Don't get me wrong, as an idea, it's not crazy and it's not a bad idea. It's just not hugely possible, right now anyway.
This really depends on whether or not the 3DS' battery has the appropriate hardware to collect stats like that. If not then you're stuck guessing. Also depends on how the 3DS collects said stats.
An example of this would be the batteries in iPod touches. They don't give out much info at all. Just temperature readings, voltage, and current capacity (but not max capacity). So there's really no way to know how much a battery has degraded as it won't tell you. How does the system know how much power is left? It's literally just guessing based on how much the battery says it currently has vs how much it's supposed to be able to hold. Which is why it's common to see an iPod die at "30%" because it's not actually at 30% but the system has no way of knowing that. (iPhones don't have this problem and is why they can enable the percentage display and iPods cannot without some hackery.)
Edit: To clarify, lets say the battery is supposed to hold 1000mAh but it's degraded to the point where it only holds 800mAh. The battery doesn't report this so the OS assumes it has the full 1000mAh capacity and gets the current power level. Then it displays that the battery has 50% power left but in reality it's got 500mAh out of 800mAh, not 1000.
An example of this would be the batteries in iPod touches. They don't give out much info at all. Just temperature readings, voltage, and current capacity (but not max capacity). So there's really no way to know how much a battery has degraded as it won't tell you. How does the system know how much power is left? It's literally just guessing based on how much the battery says it currently has vs how much it's supposed to be able to hold. Which is why it's common to see an iPod die at "30%" because it's not actually at 30% but the system has no way of knowing that. (iPhones don't have this problem and is why they can enable the percentage display and iPods cannot without some hackery.)
Edit: To clarify, lets say the battery is supposed to hold 1000mAh but it's degraded to the point where it only holds 800mAh. The battery doesn't report this so the OS assumes it has the full 1000mAh capacity and gets the current power level. Then it displays that the battery has 50% power left but in reality it's got 500mAh out of 800mAh, not 1000.
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Psionic Roshambo:
One thing that just occurred to me.... The sound on the 2600 sucked less back then the harsh sound we hear now is from infinitely better speakers we have now, back when the 2600 was new speakers produced a almost muffled sound, like CRTs made old graphics look slightly better. -
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Psionic Roshambo:
I wonder if I could recommend that to some emulation devs that perhaps the sound could use some smoothing out to simulate those old TVs
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Psionic Roshambo:
I think a few of the early systems could benefit from that, at least up to the 8 bit generation, by the 16 bit generation I think TVs had gotten a lot better in almost every way
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Xdqwerty:
it says it only works for the original R4, R4i Gold (r4ids.cn), R4iDSN (r4idsn.com) and Acekard R.P.G. -
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Psionic Roshambo:
Just give it a try, but honestly if you have a 3DS you can play DS games without a card just off the internal SD card
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