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Title: Is this okay?
Post by: thesundancekid on March 19, 2006, 10:41:18 PM

Hey, okay- i've got this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8267423680&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8267423680&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1) coming on monday- I already have an SD card (512mb) for it. I need a basic GBA flashcart to boot to this MK2 right? if so, will this do http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8267698589&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8267698589&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1). Basically I want to boot DSlinux onto my DS (Silver Mario Kart one - old firmware) and try moonshell for movies, videos etc. and maybe emulate some snes games, oh and is it possible to play backups of my nds games from the SD card on it so I dont have to carry them around? I know there's FAQ's all over the internet about all of this, but I cant find any that mention this specific combination of hardware- so would it work?

Title: Re: Is this okay?
Post by: angelfly on March 20, 2006, 12:18:22 AM

Yes you should be ok with all that. However if your not using an xg/neoflash gba cart you could experience problems. Also backups can be played from SD. At the moment compatibility is still an issue but there are a bunch that work fine.

Title: Re: Is this okay?
Post by: bruceg on March 20, 2006, 09:25:19 AM

Yes, most carts are compatible with mk2/mk3.  Sometimes, the problem is figuring out how to flash the menu file onto your cart so that it works properly.  It depends on the flashing/burning program that is used for your particular gba cart (and whether and how it tries to modify the header information).

All the recent menu releases have had .nds file extensions.  This works perfectly for those with neo-carts, but causes trouble for some other people.  Sometimes, this can be resolved by renaming the .nds extension to .ds.gba, and disabling the normal loader that gets written to the cart.  Other people need a specially compiled menu version with a .gba extension to make it work (cory1492 released that version for the latest menu release)

Another problem is that without a neo/xg cart, you can't flash commercial roms directly to the cart (instead, you must run them from the SD card directly -- compatiblity levels are not very high now, and there are excessive loading times).  So this is not the best option out there currently...

BruceG