SuperCard DS (One) Review

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Nice job on the review. It looks like the SuperCard Team has some catching up to do when it comes to these Slot-1 cards. Hopefully they'll be able to tweak the firmware and fix some of those problems down the road.

Still looks like the R4 (and M3 Simply) are the carts to beat at the present time.
 

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I'm just still surprised as to how Supercard DS One ended up costing more than it's major competitors (R4/M3Simply not DS-X obviously)

Though I did get it through a boxing day special so I'm not too cranky about it but to others it might be a factor since R4 can pretty much do everything Supercard DS1 can in the Slot-1 department except for the GUI looking not too spectacular (wow, never though I'd see the day where the roles would be reversed from the Slot-2 days)
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Nice review. Kinda disappointed to that almost all the newer Slot 1 manufacturers are using Moonshell as the basis for their GUI.

But hey, if it works why fix it.
 

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@fli guy84: It's no big deal, I'm sure that'll be fixed once the OS'll be updated to moonshell 1.6

@rkenshin: It depends on where & when you got yours from.
Now the price is the same as that of an M3S.

@Farami9: Did miss something or are you reading a different pros /cons section than I do? I can't find such a thing as "freebies" in the review.
- I've got something else o say concerning that matter: do you think everybody has got a micro SD card reader, SD reader, or a laptop with built-in reader card? Even if it does, you'll still need the SD adapter to plug the micro SD in the card reader.. so would you agree with me that have a 2 cents card reader would be better. It doesn't matter to me if it breaks straight after you fire it up, what matters to me is that should be ready to start using your flashkit right away .

@Deadmon: My ratings are different from those of the previous reviews, so keep that in mind when assessing the card.
Read the review thoroughly aswell as the Pros/Cons section and think this:
- Is there something here that'd piss me off, something I wouldn't like to see in that card or you have been much appreciated? If so compare this card ( the SC DS with other slot-1 cards) & see it's any better or not.
If it does, it's a no brainer that it deseves a better rating. I strongly advise you to skim through past slot-1 development flashkits review to make sure your opinon is a fair one.

@faceless: unfortunately it ain't be a joke: it's painful when you've got two roms which start with the same sequence:
say: abcdefghsomething and abcdefghsomethingelse both files will have the same shorter name: abcdefg~.sav
Now tell me how come you'd be able to differentiate between these two.
I've got something else to say concerning that matter, I didn't write it down because I was short on time, but if you want to be sure you are converting your slot-2 saves correctly to b used with the SC DS, you gotta play with a clean save first then copy the saver's filename.
Now consider the ease of use for the end user: wouldn't it better if he weren't to worry about converting savers. wouldn't it be better if save files had the same name as the roms ? The obvious answer is yes.

@ kenfrenzy: Do you think on should keep his eyes peeled on a website looking for a save size for an ultra recent game to find out there's none yet :
- rom name : something -
- save size : TBC.
Now to change the save size it's super easy by itself, but how would figure it out if not by guessing: hit and miss... :S (trust me there are plenty of save sizes in that change size menu, I wouldn't ejoy wasting my time figuring out which setting to use)
If you enable patch mode on the card, compatibility is screwed up, try it with the latest OS.
If you enable patching download play would most certainly break & why buy a slot-1 the first place if not for the "clean rom" mode ?
Genuine cards run true clean roms & save in real time.
Yeah better not happen to you, make sure you've got plenty of space left (0.25 MB X # of roms on your card) , to be safe make it 0.5 MB instead.

@M3LV1N: I were you, I'd wait a bit more to see what happens with these newcomers: Acekard + and Supercard "v2.0" aswell as the G6DS / M3Real.
Better keep your bucks in your purse for now, just an advice though.

@falcon64z8: well if you can purchase an R4 for 30 euros, then go for it, that's the current price of the SC DS as of we speak
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@[Jez] : if you were to assess the card's strenhts & weaknesses aswell as compare it other slot-1 flashkits reviewed already, you'll find out that the 8.5 if fair.

@ancient_imhotep: I think they're reworking the hardware part, so the SC DS will be back order for a month, untill they release that new card.
It would be nice it they were to offer the upgrade free of charge (Acekard team will do the same so with the Acekard+).
 

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My take on the freebies is that if I were able to buy these in a retail store then yes I would want them. However when the cost of oversea air shipping is close to the cost of the product itself anything unecessary that adds weight to the package I don't care for. So some people would consider the lack of "freebies" a plus.
 

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I heard yesterday from my local retailer, that Supercard stopped the production of the SCDS at the moment and that he will receive new SCDS cards in about three weeks maybe even later.
 

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@zatelli - Thanks for letting me know that it is more likely to be a hardware change. It sure would be nice of the SC team to offer the free upgrade to users, but I do not think that this will happen because the v1.0 product does what it says it will.


I would imagine that the biggest change to the hardware will be the use of a new MicroSD card reader chipset which will support all the newer MicroSD cards that are troublesome, and also maybe to make the chip not stick through the top of the card.

It will most likely include the latest version of Moonshell (1.6) as the OS.

To be honest I love my SCDS1, but then it does everything I want it to do based on my requirements. If other people do not think the card is for them, then that is what the competition to the SC team is about - to give people choice based on what they need.

If I have to buy the v2.0 card because there is no Free upgrade, then I will do so because I have faith in the SC Team to make it a far better product in the future.
 

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Just wondering. I haven't been able to get Pokemon Dash and Animal Crossing to work on my SC DS.
Pokemon Dash gives me a white screen, and Animal Crossing freezes at the very beginning (while the nintendo logo is fading in).
But in the guide you said that it worked fine with clean roms, any idea why it doesn't work for me? Since even PoR works fine for me...
 

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its feb 24th and the SCDS is still sold out at realhotstuff.com
Can anyone give me some feedback as to how the "second batch" of SCDS are. I've read around and alot of people are saying that SC fixed the chip bulge, is there any other major modifications to the second batch aside form the fixed chip sticking out and a different colored Curcuit board? the first batch was red if i remmeber correctly.

Were there any hardware changes to the second batch?

How does the second batch stand against the first batch in regards to micro-SD card combatibility?

Can we expect an SCDS2 or a "Version 2", as mentioned at the end of the review, anytime soon?
 
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