Forums · Questions concerning Flash Cards
Recently, I've been looking at purchasing a flash card for a number of reasons (mostly for my decaying NES games). But a few things have been bothering me.
Which Flash Card is generally more reliable and priced at a decent price? I did use Google and I found X-ROM 512Mb. I wont lie, I like the price. But I'm unsure about the product and the company that sells it.
Also, I'm probably buying a DS next week .. so whats required to get a Flash Card to run on it (if anything)?
I would GREATLY appreciate some comments and opinions. :)
Which Flash Card is generally more reliable and priced at a decent price? I did use Google and I found X-ROM 512Mb. I wont lie, I like the price. But I'm unsure about the product and the company that sells it.
Also, I'm probably buying a DS next week .. so whats required to get a Flash Card to run on it (if anything)?
I would GREATLY appreciate some comments and opinions. :)
The best one for price i find is the supercard. They're usually $40US and require either a compact flash memory card or a secure digital memory card (depending on the version you get). i personally have the cf version and I have a 1gigBYTE (keep in mind all those carts work on bits which is 8 times as smal as bytes) and that's sufficient space. You just gotta make sure you have a type one card, not type two.
Most flash carts work already on ds when using GBA games so that's not a problem. To run ds games on ds using the GBA cart you need a passme-type product.
The xrom is a good price, but I've heard it's garbage when it comes to the program and customer support. The EZF Advance (not the EZ Flash Advance) is the best one I've come across that doens't take cf or sd cards.
I would personally recommend the supercard since it's the cheapest. You can check out their main webpage at supercard.cn (don't worry, it's in english).
If you have any questions you can ask me. I think I know the most about flash cards on this site.
Most flash carts work already on ds when using GBA games so that's not a problem. To run ds games on ds using the GBA cart you need a passme-type product.
The xrom is a good price, but I've heard it's garbage when it comes to the program and customer support. The EZF Advance (not the EZ Flash Advance) is the best one I've come across that doens't take cf or sd cards.
I would personally recommend the supercard since it's the cheapest. You can check out their main webpage at supercard.cn (don't worry, it's in english).
If you have any questions you can ask me. I think I know the most about flash cards on this site.
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The best one for price i find is the supercard. They're usually $40US and require either a compact flash memory card or a secure digital memory card (depending on the version you get). i personally have the cf version and I have a 1gigBYTE (keep in mind all those carts work on bits which is 8 times as smal as bytes) and that's sufficient space. You just gotta make sure you have a type one card, not type two.
Most flash carts work already on ds when using GBA games so that's not a problem. To run ds games on ds using the GBA cart you need a passme-type product.
The xrom is a good price, but I've heard it's garbage when it comes to the program and customer support. The EZF Advance (not the EZ Flash Advance) is the best one I've come across that doens't take cf or sd cards.
I would personally recommend the supercard since it's the cheapest. You can check out their main webpage at supercard.cn (don't worry, it's in english).
If you have any questions you can ask me. I think I know the most about flash cards on this site.
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Thanks for your help Thaddius. Correct me if I'm wrong or not...but CF and SD cards are used in Digital Cameras and PDAs. How can you tell the difference between type one cards and type two? ???
I'll probably go ahead and buy the Supercard. :D
The best one for price i find is the supercard. They're usually $40US and require either a compact flash memory card or a secure digital memory card (depending on the version you get). i personally have the cf version and I have a 1gigBYTE (keep in mind all those carts work on bits which is 8 times as smal as bytes) and that's sufficient space. You just gotta make sure you have a type one card, not type two.
Most flash carts work already on ds when using GBA games so that's not a problem. To run ds games on ds using the GBA cart you need a passme-type product.
The xrom is a good price, but I've heard it's garbage when it comes to the program and customer support. The EZF Advance (not the EZ Flash Advance) is the best one I've come across that doens't take cf or sd cards.
I would personally recommend the supercard since it's the cheapest. You can check out their main webpage at supercard.cn (don't worry, it's in english).
If you have any questions you can ask me. I think I know the most about flash cards on this site.
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Thanks for your help Thaddius. Correct me if I'm wrong or not...but CF and SD cards are used in Digital Cameras and PDAs. How can you tell the difference between type one cards and type two? ???
I'll probably go ahead and buy the Supercard. :D
The sd cards are fine no matter what, but the cf cards are the ones that come in two types.
On the cf card packaging it should say type one or type two. On the card itself it shuold say 3.3volts. Type two works on a higher voltage and therefore won't work.
I bought a 1024MB\1GB CF card for mine and it looks like this one (even though it's a 512MB):
The sd version is considered 'smaller' and so on, so you oculd try those, but right now the guys who make them are having a hard time porting the irmware that allows you to save ds games on them to that version, while the cf version is ready to go. Just do a bit of research before buying of course and you should be fine.
On the cf card packaging it should say type one or type two. On the card itself it shuold say 3.3volts. Type two works on a higher voltage and therefore won't work.
I bought a 1024MB\1GB CF card for mine and it looks like this one (even though it's a 512MB):
The sd version is considered 'smaller' and so on, so you oculd try those, but right now the guys who make them are having a hard time porting the irmware that allows you to save ds games on them to that version, while the cf version is ready to go. Just do a bit of research before buying of course and you should be fine.
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The sd cards are fine no matter what, but the cf cards are the ones that come in two types.
On the cf card packaging it should say type one or type two. On the card itself it shuold say 3.3volts. Type two works on a higher voltage and therefore won't work.
I bought a 1024MB\1GB CF card for mine and it looks like this one (even though it's a 512MB):
The sd version is considered 'smaller' and so on, so you oculd try those, but right now the guys who make them are having a hard time porting the irmware that allows you to save ds games on them to that version, while the cf version is ready to go. Just do a bit of research before buying of course and you should be fine.
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Ok, so I purchased the supercard. But what CF card should I buy? I'm looking at a Kingston 1gb. Also, I'm kinda curious how many times I can flash it =p
The sd cards are fine no matter what, but the cf cards are the ones that come in two types.
On the cf card packaging it should say type one or type two. On the card itself it shuold say 3.3volts. Type two works on a higher voltage and therefore won't work.
I bought a 1024MB\1GB CF card for mine and it looks like this one (even though it's a 512MB):
The sd version is considered 'smaller' and so on, so you oculd try those, but right now the guys who make them are having a hard time porting the irmware that allows you to save ds games on them to that version, while the cf version is ready to go. Just do a bit of research before buying of course and you should be fine.
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Ok, so I purchased the supercard. But what CF card should I buy? I'm looking at a Kingston 1gb. Also, I'm kinda curious how many times I can flash it =p
Its not that kind of flash.
Flash memory is storage rather than Programable ROM based. This means that it acts like a small and really slow hard drive. You can write as many times as you like to it and it will only die when its ready (meaning that if it was meant to last a million years, it would last around that).
You also don't have to use special software to upload to the card. You could just get a card reader that fits in the USB. Windows should see it as a drive.
Flash memory is storage rather than Programable ROM based. This means that it acts like a small and really slow hard drive. You can write as many times as you like to it and it will only die when its ready (meaning that if it was meant to last a million years, it would last around that).
You also don't have to use special software to upload to the card. You could just get a card reader that fits in the USB. Windows should see it as a drive.
Hmm, i'm thinking of buying this thing. So from what i gather you can use the supercard with an SD card(the one that goes into digital cards) but my question is that does it support the RTC(Real Time Clock) since to tell you the truth I'm a pokemon fan(at least the GBA games :P) and i'd really like to get the RTC capability thingie.