Hacking Slot 1 M3/G6 in the works

[yuyuyup]

so slightly cheaper hardware is worth not having the entire gba library ?

 

[cory1492]

Its not just slightly cheaper... but meh. Wasn't M3 origionally supposed to support clean NDS roms without a patcher? (you know, the announcement back when all it could actually play were GST pre-patched ones?)

 

[Lily]

All the flashkits play clean roms - they need to be patched to tell the DS to save on the GBA media and not the expected DS media. While that's not technically 'clean', that's what it meant at the time.

Now clean will mean that when the game expects to save to Slot 1, it can.

 

[cory1492]

Qrayzie: the patchers currently have to patch alot more than the save routine to get the DSFS to read from the GBA cart/bus as well. Hopefully DSLink or M3's "slot 1" product wont need that kind of patching as well.

The difference is I guess, will the patcher be fast enough to be built into the loader or done on the PC (and it would probably need save patching anyway, even saving to slot 1, since there are many revisions of save chips with different latencies and such)

 

[Lily]

Yeah, I see what you mean.

 

[wabo]

Another thing i'm wondering, people seems to be hoping that you'll be able to send "download play" games to unflashed DS with this. But from what i gathered, the ds rom dumps have the RSA protection ripped off. Wich logically means that it should't work.. right??

 

[M3LV1N]

Is it possible that it could be cheaper than the Supercard Lite?

 

[Hypnotoad]

Is it possible that it could be cheaper than the Supercard Lite?

Highly doubtful.

 

[neojei]

I'd say a bunch more expensive. Just a hunch. Also something tells me the M3 type will stick out a bit maybe... DS Link couldn't fit the chip to get passme to work, how will M3 do it? M3 Lite appears to me to stick out like just a bit. Supercard used two boards to make it fit. NDS cards will have no space. We'll see I guess. Can't wait for at least one pic.

 

[Extreme Coder]

neojei:*coughDSXtremecough*

Anyway, their announcements seem a bit too ambitious, but we'll have to wait and see.

 

[neojei]

? What about the DSXtreme? *is lost & and cunpuddled.*

 

[BaggerS]

argghh i hope this comes out sooon, i was set on gettin the M3 lite, but now i dont no.

is there any news on how well it will perform for DS download play, i presume it shud acheive better results as it uses cleaner clean roms?

 

[leoedin]

yeah...more things to review!

 

[neojei]

DS Download play isn't such a huge thing for me I suppose, playback better be decent. Usually if its a good game I will buy it. Getting a flashcart so I can try games out, maybe play those games that are short that aren't worht buying. Also for homebrew, and mediaplayback. GBA compatibility, would be nice, hopefully it's included since there are a few GBA games I'd like to try out. I'll wait for this instead of the M3 Lite, it would be much easier for me to swap it from my DS Phat to DS Lite.

 

[bluebright]

Any update on this ladies?

 

[Xanikseo]

Shouldn't it be possible to play GBA games on a Slot 1 cart, just like you can play DS games on a Slot 2 cart? But you'd have to patch the GBA games, and put a passme type thing in the GBA slot or have a flashme type thing that allows you to play GBA games off a Slot 1 cart.

 

[Xeronage]

Can't do, GBA games require more bandwidth than DS games, thus the GBA Port supports higher bandwidths, and the DS less.