Hacking What Was the First Flash Card for DS?

[Centimetro]

Just curious, really. Does anyone know what the first flash card for DS was, and when it came out?

 

[Densetsu]

Probably the PassMe that Dark Fader worked on. I think that was like 6 years ago.

 

[RupeeClock]

Well, if you're talking about flashcarts as we know them now, that would be the R4DS.
There were many flashcarts before that which operated by booting a Slot-2 device through PassMe, but R4DS was the first flashcart to load DS roms through a microSD slot in Slot-1 itself.
It made homebrew and back-up loading incredibly easy, and when R4DS added DLDI-patching, homebrew and commercial roms alike could be run merely by drag-and-drop loading.
No patching or anything at all, R4DS would become the standard and the model for all future flashcarts to work on.

 

[Normmatt]

Well, if you're talking about flashcarts as we know them now, that would be the R4DS.
There were many flashcarts before that which operated by booting a Slot-2 device through PassMe, but R4DS was the first flashcart to load DS roms through a microSD slot in Slot-1 itself.
It made homebrew and back-up loading incredibly easy, and when R4DS added DLDI-patching, homebrew and commercial roms alike could be run merely by drag-and-drop loading.
No patching or anything at all, R4DS would become the standard and the model for all future flashcarts to work on.

Actually i think you will find it was the NinjaDS that was released first (using full sized sd cards).

 

[Evo.lve]

of course R4 ?0815).

of course you know nothing.

The first "flash cart(ridge)" as we know it now, with a micro SD slot, would be the R4.

The NinjaDS did the same job with a SD card.

The first item that let GBA flash carts work on a DS was the PassMe.

EDIT: Also, IIRC the first "stand alone" DS flashcart was the NeoFlash MagicKey (I THINK).

 

[jmr]

i think all these slot1 carts came before the r4/m3

NinjaDS
DX-Xtreme
DS Link
Acekard
NinjaPass x9
N-CARD
Ewin3

 

[Evo.lve]

i think all these slot1 carts came before the r4/m3

NinjaDS
DX-Xtreme
DS Link
Acekard
NinjaPass x9
N-CARD
Ewin3

There were more than that.

The R4 was the first Gen-2 (what we know today) flash cart.

 

[rave420]

i think he want's to know what the first flashcard for the DS was, that enabled the playing of comercial NDS roms.

i am curious too.

What was the first card that could be used to launch NDS roms on a DS?

(not counting GBA flashcards, and slot2 cards for GBA)

 

[Stevetry]

i have a Ninja DS