Help on purchase

[wildchild22]

What neo products do I need to buy for the genesis myth to use the sd card?
The ics2005 website shows a NEO2 Pro 1024M Flash Cart + SL4 but this dont appear to be SD?

Can someone send the correct url from the ics webshop so I buy the correct stuff.

[ChillyWilly]

http://www.ic2005.com/shop/product.php?productid=119&cat=0&page=1

That's the Neo2-Pro - if you look at the description, it says it can use SD cards for the NDS, but with the proper menu, it can use SD cards with the Myth carts as well. You use the DX menu on the MD Myth for using the SD card with the Neo2-Pro.

http://www.ic2005.com/shop/product.php?productid=41&cat=0&page=2

That's the Neo2-SD, the Neo2-Pro's little brother. That also allows you to use the SD card with the MD Myth. It was the first supported since the Neo2-Pro wasn't available at that time. The Neo2-Pro was made with the N64 Myth as the primary target since it has twice the psram and flash, allowing bigger games to be played from the SD card on the N64 Myth. If you plan to one day get the N64 Myth, I'd recommend the Neo2-Pro over the Neo2-SD.

[Fab]

so with the Neo2 Pro i can input a 2gb SD Card or higher to store games on it? If not then would be the Neo2-SD the choice?

Im planing to get the MD and N64 Cart aswell!

[ChillyWilly]

so with the Neo2 Pro i can input a 2gb SD Card or higher to store games on it? If not then would be the Neo2-SD the choice?

Im planing to get the MD and N64 Cart aswell!

You can use SDHC with either one. If you are planning to get the N64 cart, you should probably get the Neo2-Pro as it will be more useful with the N64 Myth (by allowing you to play games up to 32MBytes from SD - the Neo2-SD only allows up to 16 MBytes).

[Fab]

You can use SDHC with either one. If you are planning to get the N64 cart, you should probably get the Neo2-Pro as it will be more useful with the N64 Myth (by allowing you to play games up to 32MBytes from SD - the Neo2-SD only allows up to 16 MBytes).

ok so that means I can store xxxxx Perfect Dark roms on my card till I reach 2gb ?

[ChillyWilly]

ok so that means I can store xxxxx Perfect Dark roms on my card till I reach 2gb ?

Assuming you have a 2GB card. If you have an 8GB card, then you can store up to 8GB of roms.

The main difference between the Neo2-SD and the Neo2-Pro isn't the SD interface, it's the amount of RAM in the cart. The Neo2-SD has 16 MBytes of RAM in the cart, while the Neo2-Pro has 32 MBytes of RAM. That RAM is used to hold the rom image loaded off the SD card. Clearly, you can run games that are twice as big when you use the Neo2-Pro.

So if you have the Neo2-SD, while you can put Perfect Dark on the SD card, you won't be able to run it because the Neo2-SD doesn't have enough RAM to hold the entire game.

[Fab]

can I store multiple roms per ex. MD and N64 on 1 Neo2-Pro  and switch the cart between a MD and N64 Flash card ?

greets

[ChillyWilly]

If you put the N64 menu in the U2 flash and the MD menu in the Neo2-Pro menu flash, you can use the same Neo2-Pro for both MD and N64 Myth carts. I'm not sure if the manager can put games in the flash for both systems... probably not, but you can run both off the same SD card; just put MD games in one directory, and N64 games in another... or mix them all in the same directory, it doesn't matter. It's just easier to separate them.

If you do this, be sure to set the N64 Myth to boot from boot path A2 (the U2 flash), and to set boot path A1 to the MD menu.