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The NEO2-SD Flash Cart Review.
Bootcart and Flash Cart Combo for Nintendo DS/DS Lite
(GBMicro, GBA & GBASP)
Flash Cart works also on unreleased Snes, Megadrive
and Nintendo 64 Flash carts.
Suppliers
Neoflash/IC2005
US$69.00 (~34.30 GBP)
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Description/Specs
NEO2-SD
* Run the clean rom from (SD) directly,not need any
patcher
* Support all clean rom (100% compatible), included
the "Ultimate Spiderman (japanese)"
* Support multi-clean rom
* Build in the SD/MMC slot
* Build in battery AD monitor
* Build in universal IR remote,can support TV/HiFi/PS2/XBOX,and
the remote code is upgradable
* 100% GBA hardware save
* Build in 3 set separate RTC
* Build in 16 bit DMA
* Build in 8Kb inner high-speed buffer
* Build in 2M sram
* Build in 16M flash menu
* Build in 128M Zip RAM,support compressed ROM
* Build in 256M flash memory
# NEO2-SD support SD/Mini-SD/MicroSD(TF)/MMC/RS-MMC,
up to 4GByte
# NEO2-SD support GBA/SP/GBM/NDS/NDS-lite all platform
The Review Itself
The NEO2-SD is a newly released Nintendo DS Flash Cart
and Boot Cart set. The Neo2-SD comes in a nice protective
packaging so you should have no problems when ordering
from overseas.
Inside the package there was the Bootcart, the Flash
cart and a Mini CD with drivers and utilities and homebrew
releases from the recent Neoflash Contest. One extra
thing youll need is either a Mini SD or SD card up to
4GB in size, bigger the better and make sure to use
decent brands.
Im not a person who messes about with drivers so the
first thing i did was to grab a few roms and stick them
on my memory card and then push the card into the flash
cart. Full size SD Cards stick out the top a fair way
(see above) but mini SD cards would be much better,
but in fairness they all work perfectly.
One thing i noticed on the Boot Cart was a GBA/NDS
switch but to be honest it didnt make any difference
so i left it as it was. On booting, the NDS files i
had on showed up and with little icons and their proper
name, its so nice not to have to convert roms when you
want a quick game on your DS.
The loading of the games was very quick and i was happy
to be greeted with the video of the game i was playing,
I tried about 10 different games and some didnt load
and some crashed but those that played did so very well.
The GBA games i stuck on came back with a Unknown File
type on them, i then tried the Flashcart in a GB Micro
and GBA SP and the screen came up garbled on both.
Now you would think thats cause for concern but like
any hardware, it needs new and updated software and
a day later Neoflash released a new beta version of
their software for the Flash Cart that made more NDS
games conpatible. (New revisions of this review will
come once the new software is released)
Comments
Neoflash have come up with what must be the most exciting
idea for a flash cart in years, the flash cart having
a slot that takes Mini SD or normal SD cards is a great
feature and the ability to have up to 4gb of space is
worth the investment. Now heres where the really cool
news comes in, the Neo2SD flash cart will be compatible
with Neoflash`s Soon to be released Megadrive, Nintendo
64 and Snes Flash carts which use the DS Flash Cart
to be plugged into them. This means you have a Flash
Cart thats future proof and also means that you some
major retro fun on your hands.
Now the GBA games werent working at all on the Cart
at the time of this review and yes some DS games had
problems but new software will sort those problems.
So my recommendations are
Overall i would give it a 9 /10 , the ultimate idea
for a flash cart and once they sort out the GBA mode
and the compatibility of DS games then this could be
the Nintendo DS flash cart of the year..
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