Hacking should I upgrade from AKRPG to AK2?

[The_Dark_Knight]

hi all,

I've had an Acekard RPG for a few years now. Everything has worked great until about 6 months ago.

Now I'm having trouble running new games and having trouble with save issues on old games (that I hadn't played before... so "new" in a sense).

I can still run some new games like Dragon Quest 9 - so it's not a total bust.

But I've heard good things about the Acekard 2 and so I'm wondering if that card could fix some of my problems? Is it really the wonder card people make it out to be? Or would I just be trading old problems for different problems??

All input (bad AND good) is appreciated!

 

[Clookster]

Are you using Wood R.P.G. ?

 

[Depravo]

Are you using Wood RPG? At the moment Wood RPG is being updated more frequently than AKAIO so your AKRPG should have slightly better compatibility.

 

[jurassicplayer]

I wouldn't upgrade from an AKRPG anyways because that internal memory is really spiffy...though the other two posts have more justifiable reasons rather than my personal preference.

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

I go between Wood RPG and AKAIO depending on whichever one is rumored to work better on a given game.

My results have been completely mixed. Some games work on Wood, some games work on AKAIO. Many games work on neither (FFCC: Ring of Fates, Last Window: Cape West, Warioware DIY)

There's no Wood programs for the AK2 I take it?

 

[Clookster]

I personally would keep the RPG because it's a rare item.

You can get an AK2 for $10, you can simply try it.

There is no Wood for AK2, only Akaio. But I think it's great.

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

well I certainly wouldn't be throwing the RPG away or anything =)

but if I'm hearing you guys correctly, the RPG is actually compatible with MORE games the the AK2??

I haven't exactly had my finger on the pulse of the flash card industry for the last year or so, but I could have sworn I hear amazing things about the AK2... was it perhaps a different card I was hearing about?

is there a new "best" card on the market I should be looking into? and of course by "best" I simply mean compatible with the most games (current and down the road)

 

[kineticUk]

What do you mean exactly by work on neither? NAND or mSD?
I know about the save issues with akaio thats why I stopped bothering with it. But I hadn't noticed major problems since. If I were you I would keep the rpg and report your issues in the wood issues topic..then use wood. I don't rate akaio nor ak2's.. too rough around the edges. Paper tricks and all that poor hardware crud.
Its strange cause I cannot remember ever having any problems on wood rpg, wariowareDIY worked fine on mine. Maybe I have not been paying enough attention.
Personally I prefer my rpg with wood over akaio as I have a DSlite and woodRPG is class seriously. My 2 pence.
Hope you get sorted.
(As for the best now, I'd guess DStwo on paper. Have not used one personally though but if i were to buy a new cart it would be that. I'd forget about akaio)

 

[Ethevion]

Many games work on neither (FFCC: Ring of Fates)

I have the Acekard 2i with 1.7.1 and it runs that game perfectly along with every other game I've tried. It only costs $15 so it wouldn't hurt to try it.

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

What do you mean exactly by work on neither?

Ring of Fates and Warioware have issues saving. The game thinks it saved and if I don't turn the game off I can see the save listed and my data reflected. But if I turn off the system and try to load a previous save, it's as if I never saved at all.

Last Window has similar issues on AKAIO and it freezes during the intro on Wood.

NAND or mSD?

Sorry, NAND. I have never ever used the mSD... dunno why, just less convenient I suppose?

(As for the best now, I'd guess DStwo on paper. Have not used one personally though but if i were to buy a new cart it would be that...

I apologize for my ignorance, perhaps that is the card I was thinking of when I said Acekard 2???


QUOTE(arpeejajo @ Oct 12 2010, 05:09 PM)

I have the Acekard 2i with 1.7.1 and it runs that game perfectly along with every other game I've tried. It only costs $15 so it wouldn't hurt to try it.

Do you think the fact that I'm using a DS lite would cause a significantly different experience?
Also, there's no way to pirate DSi games with that, is there??

 

[Clookster]

WarioWare DIY needs a 32 MB savefile, that might cause the truble. Maybe you should try the mSD.

 

[Stevetry]

shuld i upgrade from my DS-xtreme ?

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

WarioWare DIY needs a 32 MB savefile, that might cause the truble. Maybe you should try the mSD.

trust me, I went through that whoooole process several times.... with the save file size that is.

never tried the the mSD.... why would that make a difference?

 

[tehnoobshow]

yes buy it....you need an upgrade defo

 

[Normmatt]

WarioWare DIY needs a 32 MB savefile, that might cause the truble. Maybe you should try the mSD.

trust me, I went through that whoooole process several times.... with the save file size that is.

never tried the the mSD.... why would that make a difference?

Because its only supported on the mSD because running any game from the nand uses the hardware save emulation which only supports up to 1MB save files. On mSD the saving code is patched to read/write directly from/to the mSD. It can't be done easily from the nand.

 

[The_Dark_Knight]

WarioWare DIY needs a 32 MB savefile, that might cause the truble. Maybe you should try the mSD.

trust me, I went through that whoooole process several times.... with the save file size that is.

never tried the the mSD.... why would that make a difference?

Because its only supported on the mSD because running any game from the nand uses the hardware save emulation which only supports up to 1MB save files. On mSD the saving code is patched to read/write directly from/to the mSD. It can't be done easily from the nand.

....interesting.

*runs to go try stuff out*

 

[DaMummy]

what other games does this include? i remember having similar problems on my rpg a few months back, i think when i went from akaio 1.6 to whatever was public after that, gave me a buttload of save problems starting with zelda spirit tracks, so i decided once the save issues were fixed in whatever akaio it was, that id erase all my save file and savelist.bin and put just roms on there, has worked fine ever since. on the other hand, contra 4 gives me 2 white screens running off nand, i havent really tried much to fix this, but any idea matt? using 1.7.1