Let me address the review's cons:
- The card's performance is highly microSD dependant.
I have a taiwan kingston that works fine in everything except PoR. Animal Crossing is a little laggy. From what I've been reading, all slot 1s have problems with PoR unless you have a better microsd. That being said, yes it is a bit more picky in general. Deal breaker? Not really.
- No freebies in the box (MicroSD card reader not included...)
I agree with this one, but I guess nothing is better than the faulty readers that some people got lol. Free shwag is free shwag.
- Unpolished save system: relies on a database (ndsinfo.dat) to decide which save type to use with every single rom. With fairly recent roms, frustration is around the corner because you'll have to guess the correct save type.
Frustration to change the save type? Uhh.. takes 2 seconds to change it ONCE. Yes, its not as good as it should be, but its not to the point of 'frustration'. An extra step that shouldn't be there?... yes.
- Does no detect save types properly, as a consequence it relies on the manufacturer's updates, thus not future proof.
Again, you can fix this yourself by changing the save type.
- Patch mode and soft reset (L+R+SELECT+START) are incompatible, you can't use both at the same time (using current firmware).
Let me clarify here... you can't run on the fly patching on non-clean roms. If you have clean roms on your card, you can easily switch between clean and super mode. If you patch before moving to your card, you can't change it.
- A chip which pops out of the casing, makes inserting/ removing the card a tad tougher if you don't remove it gently
True dat... haven't really had an issue with it.. but it does stick out a bit.
- No real-time saves, one has to reboot for the save to be written to microSD.
Not if you patch first, or enable on the fly supermode. With this, saves are direct to the microsd.
- 8 character save files, can be confusing when dealing with regional dupes or roms with quite similar names (anything after 7th character is replaced by ~)
Yes... you'd think this would be a simple fix.
- A few bugs are yet to be fixed, such as the boot I/O error
Isn't this a moonshell error? Hopefully will be fixed when they update using the newer moonshell. Annoying because it adds a 2 second 'splash' before getting to the OS.
- Critical bug: the OS wipes all savegames on the microSD card if it happens to be full!
haven't seen this happen yet, but if it does.. damn.
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Now my real rants about the product:
- Can't change the top screen picture... its embedded in the OS.
- Touch screen can be a little finicky
Pros versus other cards at the moment:
- IMHO, the best looking OS (supercard with the best GUI? WTF?
) It's more flexible on what you can skin than any other, except for that damn top screen. Of courss you can change this by making it work like moonshell, but then you lose the touchscreen goodness and ability to get to the menu.
- Potential for much more with supermode (ie cheating function)
