Thank you so much for the guide. Made an account just to say that.
Going to get a DStwo if I can just find a place with quick shipping.
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Thank you so much for the guide. Made an account just to say that.
Going to get a DStwo if I can just find a place with quick shipping.
A lot of it is people new to flash carts and DS stuff to begin with who don't know that the DS doesn't have a sleep mode, so if a DS-mode cart is in any DS model and you close the lid, it just shuts the screens off and tells the game to pause. It still powers everything but the screens, including the cart. I've closed my DSi with my Pokemon SoulSilver cart in it, fallen asleep, woke up, opened it to find it in the red. Since the DSTwo drains a bit more battery than normal carts, it's much more noticeable in "sleep" mode, though flash carts in general have varying power drains.Tnx, one riddle less. Rydian, I read about a dozen topics on battery raping by dstwo.
The emulation, the ability to update itself even on a DSi/3DS that's already blocked it (you need a second DS to get past that for all the other carts), real-time cheat modification and text reading in-game, and yes upgradability in general. The DSTwo is the ONLY cart to have NEVER needed a new model to bypass an update.What I'm losing by choosing r4igold over dstwo? Is it only emulation and update support?
Lots of teams purposely put out carts with limited space or refuse to put out updates, and yeah you saw they put out new models every few months. The r4ids.cn team doesn't do that on purpose and their models are usually supported for like a year, but since they use the basic style of updates like everybody else (except the DSTwo), their models do eventually stop. Like the review sample they sent me stopped updating at 4.4.x.How long time r4igold team support this exact card? I mean, how long people who bought r4igold receiving their updates compared to 2years plus of dstwo users. Or r4igold is one of those cards with many revisions and people buy new revisions every few months?
The DSTwo's battery drain is not noticeably larger than other flash carts in normal use.
Yes, though as you can see from the chart you'd be limited to 2GB of space.Dumb question here (I'm new to all of this), but if I have a phat DS, an original R4 would be all I'd need to run DS games without any hitches or problems, right?
I used to have this piece of junk DS Linker that'd freeze all of the time (especially with newer titles), and I'd like something that'd actually work perfectly with all games (both older and newer).
Updates are for game compatibility too.Ok, I've got another dumb question. I've been browsing through sites, and I came across this: http://www.realhotstuff.hk/R4i-SDHC-v145_p_22.html
I know it isn't on the chart in the OP, but if I'm only planning on using it on the phat ds and not a 3DS. What I mean is, isn't that the appeal of the ones the OP; that they're still being updated for 3DS/DSi? Unless I'm misunderstanding, older/nonupdated carts would still work fine for the phat ds, right, just not for on the newer (3DS/DSi) models, or is there something I'm missing?
, but you also have a R4i cart mentioned on the chart (the Gold/DSN). Is that one somehow different from other R4i's?Any "R4i", "R4 SDHC", or anything else like that was not made by them (and a large majority of them are badly-supported carts). These carts will often give two or three updates, then drop off the face of the planet.