M3 / supercard /or.....

[bandit]

NDS games play perfectly. Some people have had some problems with Castlevania: PoR but it was due to the microSD cards. I havent experienced any problems and I have used 3 different microSDs.

[podunk320x]

thanks void4ever for asking questions about M3 SIMPLY, i was looking through the forum for something like this, but im still a little confused??

I want to be able to play NDS games as well as GB(original gameboy black and white games) + GBC, NES,SNES, etc.... via emulators or whatnot.

My question is, will the M3 SIMPLY allow me to do this? or do I need another card to do this?

Im getting confused because one of the poster said you need a slot2 card to do this but I thought the M3 SIMPLY allows to run NDS games AND also emulators?

am i missing something here?

[DanTheManMS]

You can run emulators, yes, but some emulators run only from a slot-2 device. For instance, with the GBC, the best emulator out there is Goomba Color for the GBA, which you won't be able to boot on a slot-1 device. However, the recently released Lameboy runs on slot-1 devices and runs many games at full speed (though without sound), so hopefully further updates of that will make GBC gaming more enjoyable.

With SNES, it used to be that SnezziDS was the best one, which only runs from slot-2 devices, but SNEmulDS has progressed to the point that it surpasses SnezziDS, and SNEmulDS runs on both slot-1 and slot-2 devices.

With NES, both of them will run NES DS fine, though with slot-1 cards you must package the NES games into the .nds file, and I don't think saving works. On supported slot-2 devices, you can load the .nes files directly off your card, and you can use saving and savestates. NES DS is supposedly currently getting DLDI support, so hopefully this will change soon.

From what I've heard, the best SMS emulators are for the GBA as well, so you wouldn't be able to use them on a slot-1 device.

[void4ever]

Alright so i think all my questions were answered. From what i get here the M3 perfect will run everything i throw at it. (or at least what i wanted to throw at it)

However i have one last question. I was poking around on M3's website and i see there "M3 Lite Perfect". According to there website it supports everything that the "M3 Perfect" does, just that it's flush with the DS gba slot.

Am i right in assuming that the "M3 Lite Perfect" is the same as the "M3 Perfect". (aside from the use of a Micro SD card).

Void4ever

[DanTheManMS]

They are basically the same product, yes. The M3 Lite Perfect will sit flush within a DS Lite, and I think they do sell adapters to make them fit in a DS Phat, but if you have a Phat to begin with, a miniSD solution that sits flush within a Phat would probably be more convenient.

[enderandrew]

Color me stupid, but I'm looking at the products page, and most of them say they support both DS and GBA. However, they don't specify which are Slot 2 and Slot 1. I only have a GBA SP right now, and while I'm planning to get a DS, my interest is getting a Slot 2 device I can use in my GBA right now, and in the DS eventually.

I don't need massive storage since right now my primary concern is GBA binaries, which aren't huge.

Are the carts are SD versions better at a low-to-moderate price range?

[DanTheManMS]

For slot-2 usage, you would want either a Supercard or M3, probably in miniSD format so that it sits flush within the slot. Note that the Supercard is much cheaper but has slower RAM, so some GBA games will slow down or simply crash when data is not supplied fast enough. The M3 is much more expensive but has faster RAM that does not have this issue.

Just make sure you don't get a Supercard Rumble or an M3 Pro, both of which are useless or nearly useless for GBA gaming.

[enderandrew]

Thanks.

http://www.gameyeeeah.com Has the M3 Lite Perfect + Passkey 3 Card together for $80. That appears to be the best deal I can find right now.