Nintendo R4 3DS Flash Card

December 17, 2010 at 2:42 pm · Filed under 3DS and tagged: 3DS Roms, AceKard 3DS, Copy 3DS Games, CycloDS 3DS, CycloDS iEvolution, DS Flash Card, N3DS Flash, Nintendo 3DS backup, R4 3DS, SuperCard 3DS

Which of the DSi / DS Flash Card dev teams do You think will be the first one to release a Nintendo 3DS Compatible Flash Card.

AceKard R.P.G on 3DS

My favorites in this race are SuperCard Team, Team AceKard and CycloDS Team, but it could be one of the R4 card makers or a yet unknown producer. What do we have going for each of the teams (as is showing their research and development teams strength and hacking skill)

• 3DS SuperCard – created DSi  Medi Player iPlayer and later built on that to make the fantastic DSTWO with an extra co-processor and ram in the cart that enabled us to move forward in GBA, MAME and SNES emulation on DSi as well as play DivX and MKV files without converting. Another testament to their skill is just how long and how many Gameboy Advance, GBA SP Flash Linkers and NDS, DS Lite and DSi XL card they have developed and released.
• AceKard 3DS – original ace kard was an OK card but nothing too big to stand out of the R4 crowd. It wasn’t until AceKard 2, AK R.P.G and AK2i  were released that the talent of this team started showing. They stood behind their products with great support and regular compatibility updates to become one of the homebrew and nds rom scenes best favorite flash cards. They were also very quick to crack Nintendo Anti Piracy updates on DSi  that were intended to lock out all R4 carts.
• CycloDS 3DS – or maybe Cyclo3DS?
  They were the ones that managed to hack into the DSi MODE with their Evolutionary CycloDS DSi iEvolution card, but will they be able to do the same with the 3DS remains to be seen.
• EZ-Flash 3DS - lately has been slower on new developments, but You have to remember that they were one of the big players in the GBA Flash Linker market and I still use GBA EZ-Flash 2 PowerStar  in my old Gameboy Micro! EZ Vi with its MoonShell based menu with nicely integrated MultiMedia playback options is also real smooth. They still could shine on 3DS scene!
• R4 3DS no one Team- original and 100 clones – most teams these days have one of their cards re-branded to sell as a R4 card for DS/DSi so it is highly likely that whoever comes out with the flash card for 3DS will call it R4 3DS just to sell more units. After all Nintendo themselves call all backup units R4 cards so The NDS rom cartridge = R4DS …

CycloDS 3DS iEVO

- So who would You bet on will be the first one?

- Will You bout R4 3DS flash card as soon as they are available or wait to see if Nintendo tries to block them with automatic firmware updates?

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