First of all, I guess I should say that I only have the original Supercard SD, so maybe the Lite version has a better firmware or something, but if so that only makes it even worse that they're forgetting the users of their older products.
In addition t my Supercard SD, I also have a G6 Lite and, man, the G6 just has a wonderful interface. Nice large menu with icons for each game and best of all, it's all works throught he touchscreen. Compared to that, the Supercard is sad, just a simply file browser and it's all through the top screen with the touchscreen just wasted by a static splash that says "Supercard DS." On the other hand, I really like the fact that you can load GBA ROMs through the same menu as DS stuff (can't do that on the G6) and the plugin system that lets you run older systems' ROMs in emulators directly, so if the Supercard had a nicer look and touchscreen support, it wuld really be way better than the G6.
So then, why haven't the Supercard people updated their firmware to take advantage of what the DS can do and to match what their competitiors are doing? Their interface is obviously justa slightly modified version of the GBA interface, it's time to update it. And they should update the plugin system to use DS emulators instead of GBA ones while they're at it. And add direct MP3 playback, too.
If the Supercard team won't do it themselves, homebrew firmwares are always better than what the manufacturer supplies even when they do try to keep up-to-date anyway. So that's what I'd really like to see is some homebrew hacking of the firmware. I'm sort of surprised that there hasn't been any. Doesn't seem to be anything like that with any of the GBA/DS flash carts as far as I can tell.
Is the firmware updating method even cracked? It seems to just write a bunch of files to it internal memory, it'd probably be trivilaly simple to crack the method and write our own firmwares with all the features we want. HAs there ever been any discussion of this before?
...word is bondage...
In addition t my Supercard SD, I also have a G6 Lite and, man, the G6 just has a wonderful interface. Nice large menu with icons for each game and best of all, it's all works throught he touchscreen. Compared to that, the Supercard is sad, just a simply file browser and it's all through the top screen with the touchscreen just wasted by a static splash that says "Supercard DS." On the other hand, I really like the fact that you can load GBA ROMs through the same menu as DS stuff (can't do that on the G6) and the plugin system that lets you run older systems' ROMs in emulators directly, so if the Supercard had a nicer look and touchscreen support, it wuld really be way better than the G6.
So then, why haven't the Supercard people updated their firmware to take advantage of what the DS can do and to match what their competitiors are doing? Their interface is obviously justa slightly modified version of the GBA interface, it's time to update it. And they should update the plugin system to use DS emulators instead of GBA ones while they're at it. And add direct MP3 playback, too.
If the Supercard team won't do it themselves, homebrew firmwares are always better than what the manufacturer supplies even when they do try to keep up-to-date anyway. So that's what I'd really like to see is some homebrew hacking of the firmware. I'm sort of surprised that there hasn't been any. Doesn't seem to be anything like that with any of the GBA/DS flash carts as far as I can tell.
Is the firmware updating method even cracked? It seems to just write a bunch of files to it internal memory, it'd probably be trivilaly simple to crack the method and write our own firmwares with all the features we want. HAs there ever been any discussion of this before?
...word is bondage...