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I'm getting a DS soon, and I can see that you can get a NES emulator for it, which is fantastic.
I've looked at the slot-1 cards you can get on supercardstore.com (as linked from this site) and if it says the following-
Direct play in SLOT1 of the DS without any passcard, flashMe or WifiMe needed
Can I safely assume that I don't need anything else to get the emu working? Just drag the emu and roms onto the card via USB?
Thanks in advance for replies.
I doubt it. Slot 1 cards are not so good for homebrew.
Most homebrew uses a system called DLDI these days. You download the emulator, patch to the DLDI for your storage device (see a full list of available DLDI'd here) and then copy the emulator and roms to your card. You may have to put the roms in a special place on your card (e.g. a folder called 'NES') so you should read the accompanying text file called 'readme.txt' if there is one.
Do you have any suggestions for a decent and cost effective storage media to put DS emulators on?
Sorry, I'm new to this as you can tell! PC emulators I'm fine with, but console emulators is a completely different story.
Slot-1 devices will work for emulation, but certain emulators require slot-2 devices to work. It depends on what you want to emulate. For NES, any device will be fine.
That's great to hear, thanks for the response.
The main thing was the NES as I really want to play Elite again (I see the Elite ROM is freely distributable these days, which is also good).
I was also looking at Mega Drive and Master System as well, but NES is the main priority.
Genesis/Megadrive: jEnesisDS and PicoDriveDS will run games up to 3 MB on any device. PicoDriveDS will run games larger than 3 MB using a slot-2 device only.
SMS: I know there's an SMS emulator that's DLDI capable, but I don't know how good it is. You could check out SMSAdvance to see if it's any good, but that would require GBA compatibility.
What you could do is get a slot-1 device for ease of use and then get the slot-2 EZ-V 3in1 expansion pack for the times when you need GBA support.
Thanks again for the very helpful reply.
I'd also be interested in SNES as well, but I imagine that might not work so well on the DS. Would I be right in saying that SNES emu would definitely require slot 2?
SNEmulDS, the main SNES emulator, will run on any device, really. It can use slot-2 RAM to hold larger games, but apparently a bug makes this only work when you launch games from slot-1 and use slot-2 solely for RAM.
SnezziDS will only run on slot-2 devices however. Since SNEmulDS incorporated the SnezziDS core, this probably won't be too big of a deal.
Thanks again. You've been really helpful. :)