Supercard DSTWO announced

[lowdwn169]

looks like the girlfriend will be getting an AK2i as soon as this comes out!!!! been wanting an SNES emu for a long time on my DS. this will be one hell of a card. preorderable yet?

 

[freshness]

ah i´m sure that the snes compability will suck, i´m not a hater but who needs this card...i can´t believe that they will sell this card under 35$...development, testing, production etc. i mean the only reason for buying this is the snes emulator and it must handle at least ALL snes games, otherwise it´s fuckin unnessecary to own this card...why paying much money for a better compability of an old emulator? that´s ridicilious and i don´t understand why the team is releasing this product...remember i´m not a hater...it´s everyone own descision to buy this...but i´m just a little bit confused of this move...

 

[granville]

ah i´m sure that the snes compability will suck, i´m not a hater but who needs this card...i can´t believe that they will sell this card under 35$...development, testing, production etc. i mean the only reason for buying this is the snes emulator and it must handle at least ALL snes games, otherwise it´s fuckin unnessecary to own this card...why paying much money for a better compability of an old emulator? that´s ridicilious and i don´t understand why the team is releasing this product...remember i´m not a hater...it´s everyone own descision to buy this...but i´m just a little bit confused of this move...
It's a new emulator. Did you not even pay attention? This card has its own internal CPU, memory, and other hardware. The CPU itself is ~400mhz, more than 4 times faster than DS itself. That's stacked on TOP of the existing DS specs as well, making the entire thing near 500mhz + like 37MB of memory. We don't even know the exact specs, just what we were told with iPlayer. It's very powerful, and we can safely assume the SNES emulator will be far far superior to SnemulDS. SnemulDS wasn't even using its full potential, the developer said as much himself. He just abandoned it after a while.

We also don't know the full extent of the other features. That is for later. This thing has insane homebrew potential. And I'm sure everyone will want to develop for it if they can.

And $35 was a GUESS. Based only on the iPlayer's price. It could be more, but it could be a lot less. And I don't know why you'd complain about $35 anyways. That's the price of new Nintendo-made DS games. You're getting a huge bang for the buck with that even if it were $35. You people are spoiled nowadays. Cyclo is still around $40-$50 (not the best anymore either). And not long ago, having a decent flashcard under $50 was unthinkable. Slot 2 ones were especially pricey.

QUOTECan someone post a link to a place that tells all the information one could want to know about this device in one article? This is something completely new to me that I am not familiar with but it does sound interesting. One other thing, can someone comment if this will be the best one to get or is there another type of card like this that is superior?

What you see on the front page is the extent of what we know for sure. Shaunj66 is the one whom Supercard team told of this. It hasn't been announced to anyone else or anywhere else.

We do know it is based on the iPlayer, which had some powerful hardware of its own. As I said, it had a CPU with raw clockspeeds of more than 4 times the DS' CPU. It could play several major formats of video without converting to DPG (normal DS video format). It could still play any DS homebrew, including games, apps, or emulators. And it eventually received its own GBA emulator (which was actually a port of the GBA emulator for PSP). The GBA emulator worked quite well for a first release. Some games had some trouble, but as said, it was a first release. Plus, a native non-ported emulator might work better. The only thing it couldn't do was boot commercial DS games. This Supercard intends on fixing that. Plus they are adding a lot of new features you see in the first post as well.

 

[freshness]

emulator of an old console..sorry

 

[granville]

I have a simple rebuttal of that as well- SNES is one of the best consoles ever made and has some of the best games ever made. It's my personal favorite of all time. It's worth a little extra money to be able to play those epic games on a kickass handhels.

 

[freshness]

sure, but look in most cases you know every fuckin corner of the snes classics...so i think its not worthy to buy it only of the fact that this device will have an inbuild emu...but who knows...

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sure, but look in most cases you know every fuckin corner of the snes classics...so i think its not worthy to buy it only of the fact that this device will have an inbuild emu...but who knows...

 

[Hisiru]

emulator of an old console..sorry

Snes is one of the best consoles ever. I don't care if it's old or not, if it's fun I will play.

 

[freshness]

yeah i have the same opinion but in my case i overplayed most of the games(on the original console and on pc) so by this time snes emulation on ds become more like a gimmick for me...

 

[granville]

DS is a nice system to put SNES on because 1- the button layout is similar, and 2- it's ultra portable. Honestly, the games that DO work well on SnemulDS with minimal glitches (like Donkey Kong Country for instance) are REALLY fun to play. Proves they could have done well in portable form. And the GBA ports were bad enough that I find a lot more pleasure in playing DKC1 (and even 2) on SnemulDS than the GBA versions.

Plus, this emulator will most likely correct most issues with at least the non-special chip games. We really can't say the full potential until we see it. Should be a lot better than anything thus far though.

One reason i'd get this is that my old Supercard DS-One is starting to show some major age. If i have to get a new card, i'd get this one.

 

[GreatZimkogway]

DS is a nice system to put DS

Rofl, excellent error

Anyway, the GBA and SNES emulator are probably going to be a major selling point. GBA makes it's foray back into the DSi, and SNES gets a better emulator.

 

[BoxShot]

As everyone loves to have things on one console so they don't have to drag everything.

Even if you think it sucks this is a reason for some to get it.

@granville's error

 

[granville]

I've been making that kind of error more and more lately, and frankly, it's starting to freak me out... I don't usually act like a dyslexic.

Yeah meant to say SNES is a good choice to put on DS. Fail error is fail. Granville = human = not perfect, forgive him.

 

[Beware]

Before Christmas would be awesome... I guess I'll spend my money on another Premium Deck Series: Slivers though. Don't exactly have DS(i) to even use it on... Ugh I hate it when parents lose stuff that you use.

OH SHIT! I forgot that came out the other day! Thanks for reminding me!!

Why the fuck are turning this into a Cyclops discussion? And beyond that, how the Hell are there people still defending the CycloDS? It's a crap cart with a ludicrous price, get over it. If you think the Cyclo stands apart from the other flash cart fodder out there than you clearly know nothing about the competition. I've never believed the Cyclo was worth the price (even when it DID have exclusive features) and now that every shitty R4 clone has the same features it's just pure ignorance/fanboyism to think the CycloDS is still worth it. If TC wants to survive, they need to stop resting on their laurels and step it up. There is nothing to make it worth the premium nowadays, enough of your silly, fanboy ramblings.

PS: I am certainly NOT complaining about paying a premium for a flash cart (I remember when M3 Perfects were $100+). The Cyclo is simply too overpriced to be competitive and doesn't have all the features cheaper carts have nowadays.

 

[gameguy95]

hope 4 side-load and official cart color, side-load most important though, i know people complain against though so maybe 2 version: side-load and top-load. just REALLY WANT SIDE-LOAD ON THIS CART

 

[stab244]

Isn't CycloDS still the only flashcart that allows for the firmware to be stored on the card rather than the microSD card? Not defending it, but just saying.

 

[granville]

I think part of the firmware of an Acekard 2 is stored in the card itself. I could be wrong though.

I don't hate CycloDS, but yeah it is outdated now. They haven't even made a DSi version which is strange. Ironically, Team Cyclops were once known as nothing more but a company who made cheap Supercard clones. Interesting how they rose up.

 

[Hisiru]

Isn't CycloDS still the only flashcart that allows for the firmware to be stored on the card rather than the microSD card? Not defending it, but just saying.

Oh well... it's not important for me. Firmware size usually is 6MB or something, I have a 4GB SDHC.

 

[Midna]

Found something to spend that extra 50 bucks on.

 

[stab244]

Isn't CycloDS still the only flashcart that allows for the firmware to be stored on the card rather than the microSD card? Not defending it, but just saying.

Oh well... it's not important for me. Firmware size usually is 6MB or something, I have a 4GB SDHC.

M3 firmware is almost in excess of 90 MB... At least the last time I updated was that big.

 

[Acenima]

i might consider buying this if its less then 40 bucks