![]() ![]() There is also legacy GBA era flash cart but save those for the collectors really. There are many ways to classify things but for today You can also do this as an when time, funds and desire allow for it and just stick with DS stuff which has a lot of good games (including remakes of GBA games and sequels that do much the same) and a potentially far cheaper barrier to entry. Wood is also made to run on original R4 carts as well but don't get one of those as you will be limited to 2 gigs of memory (they don't support SDHC, much less SDXC which is 64 gigs and up but I don't think any DS stuff does that)Īssuming you can not find something in the DSTwo family you are going to want this (there is very limited proof of concept stuff available but not something you would really want to play on). If you find an older cart that made it to the DSi blocks you could probably have some fun - the EZ5i for instance other than the enhanced emulators having features that might go toe to toe with the dstwo and sometimes even win. Everything after this is not fluff but not necessary to getting DS games up and running. I don't know what we are suggesting here for R4 clones though.Ĭall this the short version. Seeing this many of the fly by night makers of R4s included a check on the internal system data in their kernel that stops it from working if it is too far in the future, presumably to get them to buy another as "it is not working any more"). That said you will want one Wood compatible (related to AKAIO above and with much the same features/limitations - though can you play essentially every game with cheats and soft reset? Yes and that is all most people want) and without a time bomb (flash cart is a unique thing in marketing in that you tend to buy once, possibly for not a lot, and get updates for years afterwards. Today most things bear little resemblance to the original R4. You then got other flash cart teams making things with R4 in the name, any computing/marketing buzzword you care to think of slapped on and sold as a DS flash cart. The original R4 was basically an OEM M3 (somewhat popular GBA flash cart maker) but owing to it being drag and drop (inferior in many ways to the savelists and other things) and reasonably cheap it became the byword for flash carts on the DS (and in some cases remains it to this day). Not the best hardware but its unofficial loader called AKAIO is widely regarded as having the best support (they certainly cracked more games than anyone else/were used as a base for many other things) even if not the fanciest features ( cheats and soft reset, albeit reference grade versions thereof).Įverything else means you join the world of R4 "clones". The Supercard DS one is also nice but lacks some of the fancier features, some clones did pop up a while back on the usual suspects but quality is a bit variable shall we say where originals were not bad.Īcekard2i also being noted in this. For whatever reason they stopped making them way before demand dropped so good luck finding one today, much less for a decent price. Also has savestates, onboard cheat search, in game guide reader and more besides. It is a bit power hungry but having an onboard CPU means GBA emulation, SNES emulation way better than what the stock DS and every other normal flash cart affords and a bunch of other things. The Supercard DSTwo being the main thing to make it though. To that end most things people look at today were either the few to make it through or things made later. The DSi (and then 3ds) saw a series of updates which blocked DS flash carts, but at the same time there were still DS games coming out and many of those blocked would not see updates to run the very last DS games (see pokemon conquest and most things after that that, though there is a database to attempt to sort things manually where necessary). The DSi again has a few more options here, 3ds even more so, but neither have a GBA slot. The DS slot is too slow to reasonably run GBA games so you will either need a so called enhanced flash cart there (which for most means Supercard DSTwo) or a GBA slot/slot 2 cart. To that end yeah flash carts are what you want. ![]() Security was blown wide open on the DS many many years ago and its firmware is minimal (though there are some hacks available, DSi being a step up of sorts had a proper firmware and onboard SD card that affords more options here). ![]()
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