Supercard DSTWO announced

[wanderone]

Wow 15+ pages...(Stopped reading after awhile)

Pretty much agree with what everyone else says. The big draw for me is the SNES emulator. Its pathetic that there's no more functional SNES homebrew on the DS with how long the DS has been out, it being easy or no.

But I'll wait on the review for this one methinks. I'm guessing, even if my Edge card dies (Or God forbid!! my DS!) at most I'm only gonna buy another couple of cards and another DS Lite before the big N. releases the Tegra-equipped successor to the DS. (Ths DSi is a non-issue) So whoever is releasing whatever in the next 6 months or so, better do it fast and better make it good!

 

[Hisiru]

Sorry to ask guys, but what is MenuDo? All I can think about is this:

Hahahahahahaha, but seriously, what is MenuDo?

 

[Placeholder]

Age old video of MENUdo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKX2saQHzA...feature=channel

But anyway, back on topic... Anyone know when this will be out? Or the specs? Or if they'll let us use the CPU in homebrew?

 

[Hisiru]

Age old video of MENUdo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKX2saQHzA...feature=channel

But anyway, back on topic... Anyone know when this will be out? Or the specs? Or if they'll let us use the CPU in homebrew?

Woow! This is awesome! Thanks for the video.

 

[stab244]

Ooh... It actually scrolls through long descriptions. Do want.

 

[granville]

Not only do they claim that they intend to completely redesign the GUI, they have a single screenshot of the real time cheat feature, of the menu being brought up mid-game:

"Intend" is the keyword for me here. That implies that they have yet to develop the GUI. Darnit, I want DSTWO nao!
I had my hopes up that the DSTWO might be the ominous flashcard that SoulAnger was talking about, when he mentioned that he was in talks with a flashcard developer who wanted to use menuDO for its new card.

No, those were MY words, not SC team's. They may already have coded the GUI, and probably have. The cheat screen seems to point towards that.

And I'm not sure if soulanger still intends to ally with a flashcard maker for exclusive rom support. But I am a beta tester for it and I can vouch that it works on most flashcards and loads roms via either Ysmenu or AKAIO loader. Similar to Moonshell's ysloader. At the moment anyways.

I'm using menuDO currently all the time, and I love it. But it does have some annoying bugs every now and then. That's what you get for making such an impressive GUI though with a lot of pseudo 3D effects. It does need some work before a final release comes around, so there is a good reason soulanger isn't releasing it fast. So know that.

@Placeholder-

Supposedly it has the same specs as iPlayer. iPlayer had something around 400mhz as the primary CPU, and may or may not have a secondary CPU @200mhz. It's also supposedly has 32MB memory. And of course, stack those on top of the DS' normal specs, you get something quite powerful. As for using the CPU in homebrew, I guess it depends if they release the SDK. Normmatt was talking about trying to acquire it and helping develop for it, but he's currently allied with Acekard (though we'll see what happens, I heard they ignored him for some time and he considered changing companies).

 

[Balrogs.Pain]

holy shit, i am so getting this, this is what i wanted, not only can it emulate snes and GBA (the two systems i loved the most) it can read .pdf's (which is useful for me, veyr useful) and since its emulating iplayers stuff, i think it would be able to play .avi's. If this sells for >50 bucks, my cyclo purchase was a huge waste :|

 

[sepinho]

No, those were MY words, not SC team's. They may already have coded the GUI, and probably have. The cheat screen seems to point towards that.

Thanks for clearing that up, I'm glad to hear it. This renews hope that the card might actually be released before X-Mas. I suppose adapting the iPlayer's GUI wouldn't be the worst choice, but I'm stoked to hear that Normanmatt has shown interest in developing for it. I just hope that doesn't mean he would abandon the Acekard.

Do we have any confirmation that the DSTWO uses the exact same hardware the iPlayer uses? I guess it would suck for homebrew developers to have to take into account different amounts of RAM and/or CPU power, if they were to utilize the full potential of the extra hardware.

 

[granville]

I doubt Normmatt would just abandon acekard suddenly. He could even program for both companies if he wanted (lot of work though).

As for it having the iPlayer specs, we've heard that much. Supercard team actually made iPlayer in the first place. Secondly, the first post actually says it will use iPlayer's hardware. So it's pretty certain it will have the same specs, or at least 98% similar I assume. Who knows though, maybe they'll beef the specs up even more. Just my words though.

What would be pretty cool is if you could interchange the iPlayer and Supercard DSTWO firmwares on each other. Then iPlayer buyers could have the same compatibility. Maybe it won't happen, but maybe it will. And maybe someone can hack it to work. Again, just my thoughts, not official.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I doubt Normmatt would just abandon acekard suddenly. He could even program for both companies if he wanted (lot of work though).

As for it having the iPlayer specs, we've heard that much. Supercard team actually made iPlayer in the first place. Secondly, the first post actually says it will use iPlayer's hardware. So it's pretty certain it will have the same specs, or at least 98% similar I assume. Who knows though, maybe they'll beef the specs up even more. Just my words though.

What would be pretty cool is if you could interchange the iPlayer and Supercard DSTWO firmwares on each other. Then iPlayer buyers could have the same compatibility. Maybe it won't happen, but maybe it will. And maybe someone can hack it to work. Again, just my thoughts, not official.

+1 to that, although, if firmware swapping could be officially done, why would they even create the DSTWO?

 

[BoxShot]

>.> Don't remind me PV hell I even watched your video flashing it to time it since I didn't have a stopwatch or timer and was too lazy to go to one of those sites. Most likely they will already put the 1.4 update and since it has the iPlayer hardware why not update like one?

 

[Hisiru]

I doubt Normmatt would just abandon acekard suddenly. He could even program for both companies if he wanted (lot of work though).

As for it having the iPlayer specs, we've heard that much. Supercard team actually made iPlayer in the first place. Secondly, the first post actually says it will use iPlayer's hardware. So it's pretty certain it will have the same specs, or at least 98% similar I assume. Who knows though, maybe they'll beef the specs up even more. Just my words though.

What would be pretty cool is if you could interchange the iPlayer and Supercard DSTWO firmwares on each other. Then iPlayer buyers could have the same compatibility. Maybe it won't happen, but maybe it will. And maybe someone can hack it to work. Again, just my thoughts, not official.

+1 to that, although, if firmware swapping could be officially done, why would they even create the DSTWO?

They will sell more products and they will attract more people announcing a new flashcart with gba and snes emulators + PDF.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I doubt Normmatt would just abandon acekard suddenly. He could even program for both companies if he wanted (lot of work though).

As for it having the iPlayer specs, we've heard that much. Supercard team actually made iPlayer in the first place. Secondly, the first post actually says it will use iPlayer's hardware. So it's pretty certain it will have the same specs, or at least 98% similar I assume. Who knows though, maybe they'll beef the specs up even more. Just my words though.

What would be pretty cool is if you could interchange the iPlayer and Supercard DSTWO firmwares on each other. Then iPlayer buyers could have the same compatibility. Maybe it won't happen, but maybe it will. And maybe someone can hack it to work. Again, just my thoughts, not official.

+1 to that, although, if firmware swapping could be officially done, why would they even create the DSTWO?

They will sell more products and they will attract more people announcing a new flashcart with gba and snes emulators + PDF.

Yeah, you've got a point there.

 

[An00bis]

Any word on the release date of this thing? I hope it'll be around in time for christmas

Also, how much do you reckon it would run me (I already have microSD card and USB)?

 

[BoxShot]

No there isn't a release date.
I'd say $50 at max hopefully. They most likely will bundle in a msd reader anyways.

 

[Tokiopop]

I'm pretty sure that a legit company like TI wouldn't want anything to do with flashcarts... Then again, I could be wrong.

TI are making the Pandora too!

 

[quartercast]

No, they just make the SoC

 

[fgghjjkll]

Guys. Did you know it's mostly Supercard who sets new standards for ds flashcarts?

 

[BoxShot]

Yep but did you know supercard made it crappy (at least to me you might have a different opinion) for their card and other teams did it well even though it took forever?

 

[BoxShot]

I wasn't really talking about the rts which I find fine. More or less I was really talking about how I don't like their rtc with their own cheats which is annoying to manage and yeah the rtg blows.

Dunno if they set the save types and options and all of that but if they did it is pretty cluttered and sometimes it takes me multiple tries to enable it which sometimes with my bad accuracy I launch the game.

Again this is more of a personal opinion. Your opinion may differ.