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The Nintendo DS gaming consoles are not sold with any rewritable storage medium. This raises the need of third-party DS storage devices to store downloaded, homebrew, commercial and under development games, video, music and other contents. There are three types of DS storage devices available in the market: First Generation running on SLOT-2, Second Generation for SLOT-1, and Third Generation is newly launched. In this article, we will only cover first two generations of DS storage devices to increase your knowledge.
First Generation of DS Storage
GBA Flash Catridges: The homebrew applications were stored on firstly Game Boy Advance flash Cartridges. They have 32 MiB rewritable flash-memory block directly accessible by Nintendo DS and CPU. However, the storage capacity limitation, low variety and high price made did not make them ideal for users.
GBA Movie Player (GBAMP): is CompactFlash adapter for Game Boy Advance. It is compatible with playing Game Boy games, NES, movies, and music under 200kb. It also supports GBA games under 256kb and reading text files. The low price and standard feature set makes GBAMP ideal for homebrew.
M3 Perfect and SuperCard: are quite similar to that of GBA Movie Player, but boast more features. Both of these cards include miniSD, Transflash, Secure Digital or CompactFlash slot along with inbuilt 32MB RAM. Their other editions were also launched? M3 Pro and SuperCard Rumble.
Max Media Player - is also similar to the GBA Movie Player. However, it could not work in GBA mode. The poor homebrew support, high power consumption and high price makes Max Media Player cards less popular choice.
Second Generation
Action Replay DS Media Edition: is a combination of Action Replay and Datel's Max Media Player. This bulky device protrudes out of top of a Nintendo DS gaming console. It has a slot to plug-in the game. This supports up to 2GB cards, but it is not compatible with SDHC.
Action Replay DSi This is much slimmer version of Action Replay DS and 99% compatible with homebrew. As Datel is against piracy, the commercial ROM are still not supported.
Action Replay: Ultimate Codes for Pokemon - is a flashcard device, especially designed for Pokemon games.
Acekard 2 - is 100% compatible with homebrew and supports micro SD/SDHC cards.
Ackeard R.P.G. Only device to have both micro-SD and NAND memory slots. It supports SDHC cards from 4GB to 64GB. The R.P.G. comes with mini-USB cable.
R4: is the most popular card till now. Team R4 originally manufactured it in 2008 and named as 'Revolution for DS' cards. Since then, several manufacturers started producing these cards and still its successors are in use.
CycloDS Evolution: features DLDI drivers and full-DS download support. It uses micro-SD cards for storage and features modified Moonshell.
Datel Games n' Music: is a SLOT-1 device that uses micro-SD cards for storage. Its firmware is similar to that of Max Media Dock.
DS Link: was also a SLOT-1 device to use micro-SD cards for storage.
DS-Xtreme: EZ Flash card contains 4Gib internal flash memory. It supports the generic USB Mass Storage.
R4i? is the successor for R4 cards and like them, it has been manufactured by different companies. All the editions have latest firmware and support almost every game on DS and DSi consoles.
Galaxy Eagle I, R4i Gold, SuperCard DSONE, NDSL R4, R4-III, YushenDS, R4DS, M3 DS Simply, NinjaPass, N-Card, M3i Zero, M3 Real, iPlayer, I-Cheat Xtra, iEDGE DS, G6DS Real, EDGE DS, EZFLASH V, DSTT and DSTTi are more cards following in Second Generation of DS Storage Devices.
At nds-gear.com find useful information about the R4 and EZ flash DS Cards. One can buy the Latest version of the card from this site. It also provides useful information about memory cards.
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