Hacking Supercard DSTWO: General Discussion & Questions

[Terminator02]

32gb cards work fine, and you should be fine with a class 4 or higher from a reputable dealer and a good brand

no idea about mame, i've never used it

 

[codezer0]

What I mean, is... are there any specific horror stories to particular brands to use in a DStwo?

 

[AlexMason]

Brands... no, but fake sd micros can cause big complications.

Here is a good card and good brand: 32 GB class 4 ffor $65
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820139394

I don't know if anyone can confirm the integrity of this brand but here is a 32GB class 10 for $71
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820211558

 

[codezer0]

Augh... a little too rich for my blood at the moment.

And given the capacity, the faster class speeds are going to be a boon for the simple reason that if I ever need to reload this card, I'd like ot keep the transfer times to a minimum.

A 16gig would be more affordable, true... but I'd like to try and do a more significant increase if I'm going to buy another microSD.

 

[AlexMason]

Class 10, 16GB - $25: never heard of the brand.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820161405

Class 10, 16GB - $30 - Kingston: reputable brand, reputable dealer:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820139553

 

[codezer0]

Kingston's QA lately has been all over the place apparently... what with how wildly different performance has been between where the card(s) in question were made. Not being able to check/verify through just an online photo, probably not my ideal choice. Can't say I've used a Wintec brand microSD before either. I've used Patriots with no problem at least. And this one Transcend is rather stupidly fast in my digital camera.

 

[nitrozz]

I bought a Team microSDHC 8GB Class 6 works great

http://stores.ebay.com/MEMORY-AND-BATTERY/

 

[AlexMason]

Do not buy through Ebay... period.

And newegg is reputable dealer they probably buy whole sale directly from kingston.

EDIT:
They are listed on kingstons "where to buy" page so i am 99% sure these are not fakes:
http://www.kingston.com/wheretobuy/default.asp

 

[codezer0]

I'm not talking about that, Alex... I'm talking about how which factory the card was made from seems to have a rather significant effect on the I/O performance of a microSD with their logo on it. In short, a made-in-China Kingston will perform like ass, while the same model card that states made in Japan/Taiwan is actually pretty awesome speed-wise.

Since I can't actually see the country of origin that Newegg gets for their cards sourced from, it would be a crapshoot to order a Kingston microSD online... anywhere for that matter. Only way I would get a Kingston now is if I can physically look at the package to verify its country of origin, so I make sure I'm not getting an artificially gimped card.

 

[DiabloStorm]

Forgive me if this was asked somewhere else (I tried to look for it) but is there any way to 'convert' saves between an emulator like desmume and the DSTWO?



I see this: http://saves.uniquegeeks.net/g/index/page.aspx?id=15 (Even mentions a user on here) but I don't think it supports dstwo?

 

[AlexMason]

Forgive me if this was asked somewhere else (I tried to look for it) but is there any way to 'convert' saves between an emulator like desmume and the DSTWO?

http://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php

 

[Terminator02]

yep

Edit: Shunyweb doesn't do desmume, uniquegeeks' converter does (converting to M3 Simply should work fine)

 

[DiabloStorm]

[(converting to M3 Simply should work fine)

Ahhh okay, so I guess I was closer than I thought. M3 saves have the same file extension the dstwo uses? Hm... Thanks again for the help. =)

 

[AlexMason]

yep

Edit: Shunyweb doesn't do desmume, uniquegeeks' converter does (converting to M3 Simply should work fine)

Ahh ok, thats just the only save converter I know about.

 

[AlexMason]

What is the integrity of the MicroSD Card Reader bundled with SCDS2. Should I use it or use the MicroSD adapter that came with my kingston card.

 

[Terminator02]

doesn't matter, but the usb reader bundled with the ds2 is slow, so even if you card is class 10 the speed of file transfer will still be limited, not sure about the microsd-to-sd adapter, but i'd assume that it works just as fast as your microsd card normally would (the limit being either from the card or your sd card reader

 

[FatalX]

I was wondering if it is possible when playing a GBA game to stretch the screen to full screen on a DSi XL?

Is there any update coming that will allow us to do this?

 

[Buleste]

The GBA emulator hasn't been updated in a long time so I think development on it has stopped now.

 

[Terminator02]

and to answer your question, no you can't, combine that with Buleste's response

 

[FatalX]

Damn :/ I was really looking forward to enjoying GBA games on the XL screen.

Does the team that made the GBA Emulator have an official site or something?