Ninjapass allows flash cart-less homebrew on Nintendo DS
By Evan Blass 
posted Jul 13th 2006 11:01AM
posted Jul 13th 2006 11:01AM
If you've been waiting around for an easy way to play homebrew swag on your Nintendo DS or DS Lite, then prepare yourself for the stealthily-named Ninjapass. Like a handful of other solutions already on the market, this device lets you load up your games and play them directly from the DS cartridge slot -- no flash cart required. There's only 64MB of onboard memory, but you do get passcard functionality to boot content from the GameBoy Advance slot, along with a multi-game menu, convenient system for saving games, and bundled USB 2.0 adapter for hassle-free file transfer. The Ninjapass is currently available to pre-order -- it will ship when "stock arrives" at an unspecified date -- for $52, or a little less if you order in bulk.[Via DS Fanboy]
That's.............. interesting.
So, could you put video clips or audio clips on it in addition to games? Can it only do Homebrew? How do you Homebrew?
I do homebrew in the following order.
1. Boil water
2. Put t-bag in mug
3. Pour boiling water into mug
4. wait 2-3 minutes to 'brew'
5. Remove t-bag and add milk to taste
I do this mostly at 'home' but I've heard it can be performed elsewhere given the correct equipment. I guess with this I can homebrew on the train or bus as well....brilliant!
Will it be able to serve up fresh apple pies to whales every week?
I still prefer my M3/Passcard combo. WIth a 2 gig Mini SD in there, I can have 50-60 games, and take just that on the road. Imagine having to lug a laptop just to change games, or even sillier, to buy multiples of these at $52 a pop just to have different games.
Agreed, I've got a flashed dsl (via MML) and supercard mini-sd and it's nice to knowif I ever do need more storage i can buy another minisd card for peanuts instead of having to buy a whole shebang. If they had one of these that TOOK minisd or transflash or somethin,, now that would be pretty rad.
Now we can have rumble features with homebrew!!!
what's the best and cheapest way to do homebrew, video, mp3, etc. on the nds? and, coming from someone whose never done homebrew, where do u get it from and put it on the ds and stuff like that?
Perhaps it will be possible to just rip the software they use on the ninja and apply it to your own 2gig flash?
They are currently working on an mini or micro SD version.
Sweet, hopefully it'll lend to the development of the DSLinux project!
I just bought my DS Lite and its amazing, i love it... but is it just me or is it getting the same staining problems the white macbooks have? Mines already smudged and ive bearly had it a week.
what is two or three of the best nds homebrew how-to sites oout there?
Hector Garcia: Wash your hands, maybe that could help...
I'm gonna have to get this when I get some moneys. Maybe then I can start making my own games for my DS...
I really must apologize for a double post, but I just found something cheaper that can handle the same thing as said gadget does and some other stuff.
It's by Codejunkies, so I really don't know everyone's opinion on this company. It's called the Max Media Dock and you can run homebrew code from a compact flash card.
here's the URL to the thing:
http://us.codejunkies.com/shop/product.asp?c=US&cr=USD&cs=$&r=0&l=1&ProdID=750
the website seems to be selling one with 512mb memory, whilst stating that there is also 128mb, 256mb and 1g versions, so i'm not sure where engadget is getting "only 64mb" from
rf - those numbers are in megaBITS, not megaBYTES. Divide those numbers by 8 to get a better idea of their size.
ie: 128mb = 16MB, 256mb = 32MB, 512mb = 64MB, 1gb = 1024mb = 128MB.
oh right, cheeky swines
well .. you could do away with all this hacky hardware nonsense and just get yourself a GP2X (http://gbax.com/) which doesn't require any sort of nonsense to get home-brew code up and running on it, is cheap, and already runs thousands and thousands of interesting ROM's from Nintendo, Sega, Sony, et al.
That said, I'm gonna get me a DSLite+Elektroplankton soon as I can ..
Cool to have no flash card - until you realize that you needed the gba flash for playing gba games and now with a ds only pass card you cant play them :(
Isn't this much cheaper then the M3/Passcard combo?
Are you sure about it being bits instead of bytes? As far as I have seen on the site, there are alot of things that are listed as "Bit". Remember this - The store's logo engrishly says: "we shipping worldwide and offering a low price guarantee." 'Nuff said.
nah, not much wanted level.
if it has SD, miniSD, microSD support it would be great.
maybe its just meant only for DS games thats why it has a passcard support for the homebrews,emus,DSlinux.
Oh the confusion!!!
this could lead us to a new level or maybe more complicated.