Flash card recommendations...

[w00tman X]

Well, thanks guys. I'll have to give that one a try then, it looks so nice! I'll order it when I finish this particular overseas trip I am currently on... Then I'll probably be sending a few "How to?" PMs...

If you don't mind, that is.

Again, thanks for your help.

[XDelusion]

Not at all a problem, in fact I'm very interested in putting up a tutorial for the 3in1 this week infact so I'll post a link once I get it finished.

[x999x]

That would be great, I didn't notice much help on the product homepage, it was pretty cryptic.

I'm unsure if you have to dump files onto the 3-in-1 card before it will do anything, or if it's simply a plug-n-play sort of thing. Plug-n-play would be nice

Does the SNES emulator run on it? I was wondering if it's farther along than the DS one is, I remember that being the case for some emulators way back when I made the switch to DS, so I was a little saddened at the trade off, but I'm not sure if that's even the case anymore.

[XDelusion]

Tutorial here:

http://starwarslegacy.net/NDS.aspx

[w00tman X]

Ah, Uber! Well done with the tutorial man, and thankyou.

[x999x]

Tutorial here:

http://starwarslegacy.net/NDS.aspx

Thanks so much for taking the time to put this together!

I gave it a good read and bookmarked it for when my card finally arrives

For anyone who hasn't read it, I highly recommend giving it a look, even if you're already familiar with this. Why? It's written by an experienced user who has managed to "get passed" all the quirks and get down to gaming. The bit on which games take some elbow grease to get running is especially insightful.

:thumbup:

[x999x]

Thank God I bookmarked your page, I got my 3in1 over this board's downtime... I can't believe how awesome this 3in1 is!

Anyway, I got all my favorite gba homebrew to run. I ran into some problems with the PunchOut emulator and a few others, but I was able to fix them using the GBA Tool from your site. Simply fix the bad header, and blammo it will work. I've not had any problems with homebrew since, in fact, everything has worked!!!

[XDelusion]

Awsome!!!!

I've also found that 16Mb GBA titles to work as well, which I've added to the end of my tutorial!

So Minish Cap can be converted to a NDS file after all!

[x999x]

Nice, thanks for that bit of info, I think I just might start making those gba/nds files you're talking about. I'd like to keep things organized, especially for the AAA titles. The lesser known stuff I can keep as is.

Let me ask, is converting to nds limited to one gba file per pack, or is it like Goomba and allows you to package multiple files inside the Goomba wrapper?

Oh yeah, you can tell when GBA homebrew isn't going to work on the 3in1, the "Nintendo" logo just underneath the "Gameboy" logo on the splas screen will be garbled and things will freeze. Fix the header in GBATool to get it to run on the 3in1, it's worked for me every time.

PS - what are you using for gba/gbc/sgb emulation? I have a bunch of old Goomba packs I made that I've been using, but I'm wonderin if there's something on the DS front now that's even better?

*UPDATE*

Bleh I tried NDS Station and it blew out my Kingdom Hearts Quick Save!!!! Dx

SO um, yeah, I gave it a go and despite taking a little longer than using the 3in1 to load into psram, everything seemed pretty good until I decided to continue my game of KH. I had just farmed 3k Moogle points and was about to buy some cards

No more NDS Station for me, sadly.

[XDelusion]

Oh ya, with that NDS Station make sure you get the second release, otherwise ALL games will kill what ever game saves are in the 3 in 1's memory.
Also with version 2, anything 16Mb and above will do that as well, which is why I used the ROM Trimmer option in the ROM tool! This will make the 16Mb roms a hair smaller and they will simply run off your memory card and write save files to the memory card.

As for NDS station, no it is a stand alone, it gives the illusion that your GBA title is a NDS game.
If you want a menu like Goomba, you'll want to use Rudolf's Tool and be sure to stay out of NOR MODE else you might loose more game saves!

As for your homebrew trick, I'll add that to the tutorial, thankx for the tip!
Also I put a little note in there about loosing game saves when writing to NOR mode. I should have done that before, sorry about that!

As for Gameboy and Gameboy Colour emulation...



LAMEBOY!!!!


http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/lameb...-ds-68696.html


Goomba it great for B&W games, but runs colour games very slowly for which reason I need Lameboy because I'm a Zelda junkie!