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Sony should learn from Nintendo and let the PSP homebrew community flourish. I might then consider buying a PSP. I already have 2 NDS(original and lite).]]>Aug 10th 2006 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/]]>Aug 10th 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 10th 2006 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
could it run games that arn't made for the DS? Like: Chess, Solitare, texas hold'em, pac-man space invaders, etc...? Cause if so...I will buy one...and I havn't owned a handheld game console since the original gameboy.]]>Aug 10th 2006 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 10th 2006 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 10th 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
The same universe where 512Mb != 512MB.
Mb = megabyte (1x Mb)
MB = megabit (8 Mb)

So 512MB * 8 = 4096 Mb = 4 gigs. Savvy?]]>Aug 10th 2006 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
And a device like this, although without the whole drag and drop thing, already exists. It's called the Ninjapass.]]>Aug 10th 2006 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
This seems only slightly better than the M3 adaptor and passcard, 1 piece of hardware instead of 2. Now there is a new passme device called the nopass, it is just plug and play.

http://tobw.net/dswiki/index.php?title=Hardware
For all the other ds homebrew options.

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Read it again more carefully - they actually wrote 512MB. FYI, the convention is that uppercase B stands for bytes, lowercase b stands for bits.
There are eight bits in a byte, so 4 gigabits = 512 megabytes. Which is what they said.]]>Aug 10th 2006 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 10th 2006 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
512 mbs is just to damn small, my camera memory stick holds 2 gigs and its way smaller...So why did they limit its size so drasctically?

BTW, can it run the games I mentioned earlier???]]>Aug 10th 2006 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
Divide 8 by the number of bits to get the bytes.]]>Aug 10th 2006 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 10th 2006 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
If I have a DS Lite, and I buy either this or the ninjapass...then is that all I need, or do I still need something else? The terms I hear thrown around a lot are passket / no-passkey / G6 / Passcard 3 ....Do I need one of these things as well in order to get it to play homebrew things???]]>Aug 11th 2006 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.patatersoft.info/cms.php?page=links]]>Aug 11th 2006 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
#1. Get a SuperKey / PassCard3 along with a SuperCard or M3. The SuperKey will act as a PassMe without having to flash your DS. All you do is stick the key in the DS game slot and it will boot the SuperCard or M3 (which is in the GBA slot). These devices use SD, miniSD, CF, or microSD/TF. 4 GB SD cards are reportedly working in SuperCards. The SD version sticks out of the DS'es slot a bit, while the SD mini doesn't (DS Lite users need to get the SuperCard Lite that uses a MicroSD/TF card if they don't want anything sticking out.)

#2. Flash your DS + SuperCard/M3. Flashing will still require a Passme device (SuperKey or PassCard3) and is relatively easy as long as you are cautious. It only takes around 30 seconds to flash the DS. Flashing the DS will allow you to remove the Passme device in the DS slot.

#3. DSLink, DS-Xtreme, or NinjaPass. These cards will only need the DS Game slot with no flashing or Passme devices. Personally, if I were to use one of these, I would get the DSLink because it uses microSD/TF, which as of now currently goes up to 2 GB.

Current noteworthy homebrew apps for the DS are:
Beup - a messenger client for MSN
dsAIM - AIM client
dsLinux - Linux (no GUI)
Snezzi DS - SNES emulator
DSOrganize - PDA functions along with a Homebrew Database so you can download new homebrew without having to use your computer.
Moonshell - Video/MP3 player - also supports .OGM audio along with others. Video is DPG format only
SylphAMP - stream WinAMP audio output to the DS
SylphIRC - IRC client
ndsMail - Email client
retawq - text only browser

Visit http://ds.qj.net/ for updates on homebrew and http://www.scdev.org/ for more information about SuperCards

Ciao!]]>Aug 11th 2006 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
The G6Flash Lite is, IMHO, a much better product. It's pricier than other incarnations, but it fits perfectly into the GBA slot on a DS Lite and looks like it's built in. This thing looks as big, if not bigger than the first M3 CF I had, which stuck out the bottom of my DS Lite about an inch. Fugly.]]>Aug 11th 2006 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Dec 20th 2006 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
I don't believe there is a Genesis emulator as of yet. And the SNES one is still in development, but some games work.

I'll stick to my CF supercard. It maxes at 2GB, but at least I can use another CF if one gets full.]]>Aug 11th 2006 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 11th 2006 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
It can run some homebrew, but not all. It also ran for a week or two before it destroyed the 1GB compact flash card that I bought it with. They're going to take a look at it under warranty, so we'll see what happens after that.]]>Aug 11th 2006 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
Maybe in the early days of wifi-me that would have been true, but now* its no more difficult than homebrew on GBA, which was damned easy.



*thanks to the absolutely amazing work of the ds homebrew community

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Hell, stick mp3 and video functionality in there and launch a DS-Media Store, and allow CD and DVD ripping to an external HDD. All of a sudden, nintenendo's game centric handheld has its multimedia opened up. With this, it could take on both iPod and PSP, while also pioneering the online purchacing arm of the gaming industry.]]>Aug 11th 2006 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
I think the route I'm gonna go with is a to get a Passcard 3, and the DS Link (when it comes out in a couple weeks), and a SD Micro card.

Is that everything I would need??? Or am I missing something.]]>Aug 12th 2006 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
I have an M3 that's been really good to me, and I plan on getting a Passkey3 and some miniSD-based cart if M3 actually makes them for my DS Lite. (It didn't bother me that the standard M3 stuck out almost an inch from my old grey DS, and a centimeter won't bother me on the DS Lite.)
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I've flashed 10 DSs for various friends with my passme2 and an old 128mbit flash advance cart.]]>Aug 12th 2006 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 12th 2006 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 12th 2006 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 14th 2006 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
"Divineo.cn and Divineo.com have revealed the pricing for the revolutionary DS-X flash cart adapter at a price of $124.95. The price comes as we expected as the DS-X (info) requires no passcard unlike other devices and offers everything you need in one hit. We really can't wait to get our hands on this one!

Pre-Order DS-X Now: Asia / N.America (both stores ship worldwide)"]]>Aug 14th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 22nd 2006 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 22nd 2006 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/Aug 30th 2006 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/10/ds-xtreme-gives-drag-n-drop-capability-to-your-nintendo-ds/
im thinking of getting the DS-Xtreme 16Gb to play DS homebrew , but i also would like to run GBA homebrew

so lets say iv got a DS-Xtreme , would i be able to basicly get any GBA flash cart and use it in conjunction with DS-Xtreme or will i need to get a "pass me" card thing]]>Jun 12th 2007 12:34PM