More DS releases

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0008-Feel the magic - xx xy (u)(golden_sun_team) (~44mb)
0009-Meteos(j)(golden_sun_team) (~89mb)
0010-Nintendogs - Chihuahua & Friends(j).zip (~43mb)

Quite large!

[{{909}}]

pity development on the flashcard seems to have some to a standstill lately

[herbinator]

Got myself a passme and a 1 gig xg2t 2005 and am playing the roms came to the exactly the same price as a 512 meg neoflash.
Word of warning i dont think a passme is suitable for anything but the most sensible and calm kid\s beyond flimsy

[_Belial]

Just spotted a new article on spong about DS + Flashcarts

Nintendo Company Limited will be reeling today as it sees widespread plundering of its Nintendo DS handheld platform explode across the Internet with the sad news that full-scale piracy is now well underway.

Nintendo DS Flash cards are now available, along with USB writers. This situation is compounded by the fact that ROMs of DS games have become widely available on Internet piracy sites and, private FTP servers, and via peer-to-peer networks - a damaging blow to Nintendo’s new handheld console.

Nintendo has struggled with piracy for its portable products since the first Game Boy launched almost 15 years ago. Within months of the original machine’s launch, cartridges from China and Taiwan offering up to 30 games each were available for around the price of a single official game. This problem continued through the days of the Game Boy Color and persisted on the Game Boy Advance, with card writers and associated peripherals remaining available throughout Nintendo’s battle to regain control of the situation.

As you may remember, Nintendo acted aggressively and successfully against Hong-Kong-based Lik-Sang, forcing the well-known online games store to withdraw its line of Game Boy ‘development’ tools. Nintendo DS emulation software is also now widely available, with reports claiming to have a near perfect clone of Nintendo’s machine running on PC with software to boot, as it were.

A typical package being offered to potential home pirates consists of a 512MB card, a USB card reader, a Game Boy Advance Flash card and associated software, including emulators for Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES, PC Engine and GameGear. The asking price is generally a shade over £100 for this package, a worryingly tempting proposition for technically-minded gamers, already with a proven appetite for such systems.

SPOnG contacted Nintendo for clarification of its position on this news but was unable to get comment at time of going to press. We expect feedback later on today and will update this news piece accordingly.

http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=8799

[{{909}}]

Got myself a passme and a 1 gig xg2t 2005 and am playing the roms came to the exactly the same price as a 512 meg neoflash.
Word of warning i dont think a passme is suitable for anything but the most sensible and calm kid\s beyond flimsy

how are game saves handled? as fas as i know the saves are still put onto the DS cart you have on the DS at the time

Cant you flash the DS bios (flashme) and then not need to use passme atall?

[herbinator]

yu u still have to have an original cart with the corresponding save size as the rom u have flashed.As far as flashing the firmware im pretty certain the latest roms dont work with modified firmware but cant confirm cause im a technical buffoon and wouldnt attempt it.

[ABCMan]

its worth pointing out that all these golden sun releases are not rom dumps but heavily modified code designed to work exclusively with the neo and xg series flashcarts, if another company brings a dumper / flasher out these will not work and if nintendo hit the makers then there will be no more golden sun dumps (allegedly one and the same)

[{{909}}]

nintendo made the same threats regarding the GBA and they stopped alot of major HK sellers from selling flashcards, didnt exactly stop things tho

[ABCMan]

no, but back then there were several companies doing it and anyone could dump the roms, this is an entirely different situation whee the maker of the flashcards is also making the neo AND doing the dumping / fixing, if they get shut there wont be the cards to run the roms (other flashroms dont work with the golden sun releases) and there wont be the roms getting released either untill someone else steps in and makes a competitor.

[{{909}}]

hmm, ok, its still rather pointelss with the save game situation, mite as well wait for a competitor to make a decent flashcard

[ABCMan]

the ds save situation is only like it was for everyone on the n64, but without the ability to upload the saves from the save rom to the pc at present.