Anyone here have a Supercard for GBA

[forbiddenlyrics]

I was just wondering if anyone else here has a Supercard for thier GBA or DS? I just got mine a few days and I love it. I have had a few problems with slow downs on Mario Advance 2 but overall all the games I've tried work great. I bought mine on ebay for $47 shipped and am currently using a 128mb CF card.

[Hoagie_one]

i plan on buying the M3 soon.

http://www.m3adapter.com/

[spystyle]

I have the supercard CF and I like it, I've noticed some "not too bad" slowdowns on Metroid zero and it seems a few other games don't work - funky I can play as princess on Mario Cart Racing but not Toad, stuff like that but perhapse the R0Ms are sorrupt.

Overall for $44 from Hong Kong I love it! Do you know how many NES R0Ms fit on a 256 CF card? Lots! It's coolness is 2nd only to the AfterBurner light kit.

I recommend it,
Craig

[The 80s Man]

I have a  M3 and I love it.

[Otraotaku]

I have the supercard CF and I like it, I've noticed some "not too bad" slowdowns on Metroid zero and it seems a few other games don't work - funky I can play as princess on Mario Cart Racing but not Toad, stuff like that but perhapse the R0Ms are sorrupt.

Overall for $44 from Hong Kong I love it! Do you know how many NES R0Ms fit on a 256 CF card? Lots! It's coolness is 2nd only to the AfterBurner light kit.

I recommend it,
Craig

you should be able to store them all on 200MB's

[forbiddenlyrics]

you should be able to store them all on 200MB's

Actually the NES Rom set I have takes up over 900MB.

[Hoagie_one]

The US nes rom set is much smaller however

[Mario]

I have a  M3 and I love it.

Does the M3 work with the GBA, or only the DS? If it works with the GBA, can one play GBA game ROMs with it?

Thx.

Mario

[ften]

I have a  M3 and I love it.

Does the M3 work with the GBA, or only the DS? If it works with the GBA, can one play GBA game ROMs with it?

Thx.

Mario

I have one and it works perfectly fine on my GBA. Runs every GBA ROM I have tried perfectly with no slow downs. It has a 256Mb limit on ROM size.
The only downfall of not using it with a DS, is they just released a new frontend for the DS the incorporates Moonshell into it.
I've split all my US NES ROMs (In theory of course, as I don't have a garage filled with 850 some odd games, so I wouldn't really have every ROM) into 8 different *.gba file to be compatible with the 256Mb GBA ROM limit.
Man I love my M3.

-FTen

[The 80s Man]

That moonshell is very nice I prefer it's movie format over the native M3player and it does a good job of playing MP3's too.

[daywane]

OK... Sat. was My birthday
I got some $$$
well not a big amount but I have $60.00
enough to get a Supercard.
almost enough for a M3

help me figure out witch to buy.

Movies.....? Thought this was cool but I already have a portable DVD player
and converting movies to AVI I am allready doing. seems any thing under a 1 gig file is not worth watching.

probably only use it for GBA and Nes games
will be used on GBA ( the first one out. not GBA/sp)

I have about 5 Compact flash cards
two 8meg cards
Two 32meg cards
one 512 meg card

My game cube has the adaptor on the bottum for Game boy cards
will this work also?

I have looked at the store websights.
M3 I could not find were to click for price. or buy the stupid thing 
found them on EBay $90.00
Supercard  I think it was like $40.00

I have many card readers. all set up on differant PCs ( I use them for transporting files from 1 PC to the next) seems faster than a floppy disk

[Hoagie_one]

If you want to play DS roms, get the M3.  It plays all but like 2 roms, perfectly.

Love teh M3

[big daddy]

I've never heard of the M3.  So let me get this straight.  With this M3 and a Compact Flash card, I can load either Nintendo DS roms, GBA roms, or even nes, snes roms on the card. 

I can then bootup and play those games on the nintendo DS?

Sounds cool.

There's no sort of firmware update that the DS does to keep you from playing their roms, even backups?  Seems they'd have to have something in place to prevent piracy.

[Hoagie_one]

youhave to use something called a passme to get teh DS to boot homebrew code or upgrade the firmware.

details here

[big daddy]

thanks...I did some reading and found out how it does it.  Pretty cool. 

So, how is the nes emulator on this thing?  or snes emulator?  Run things full speed? (I know some snes wouldn't).  Does it look good on the DS screen?  Tecmo work fine?   

[ften]

I've never heard of the M3.  So let me get this straight.  With this M3 and a Compact Flash card, I can load either Nintendo DS Roms, GBA Roms, or even nes, snes Roms on the card. 

I can then bootup and play those games on the Nintendo DS?

Sounds cool.

There's no sort of firmware update that the DS does to keep you from playing their Roms, even backups?  Seems they'd have to have something in place to prevent piracy.

Yes, all but the SNES. Technically the SNES works, but not very well. Very slow. I have every USA GB/GBC game, USA NES, and a bunch of GBA Roms / mp3s on mine. Pocketnes works awesome. Goomba Color (gb/gbc emulator) is nice too.
Although the DS has firmware updates, those are only loaded manufacture side so there wouldn't be a game release that would update your firmware, like the PSP.
Flashme can be used to downgrade your firmware, so you won't need to continue to use the passme plugin.

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Semi on the same topic I just got an Ipod 4GB mini drive on eBay for 44 bucks I'm using in my M3... 4GB of goodness...

-FTen

[Hoagie_one]

hows teh battery life on the microdrive?  Did you have to hack your M3 much to get it to fit?

[daywane]

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Semi on the same topic I just got an Ipod 4GB mini drive on eBay for 44 bucks I'm using in my M3... 4GB of goodness...

-FTen

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More info please.
what is this? I have never even seen a Ipod ( yes I know what one is)
What you mentioned ( 4 gb mini drive)
Is this like a CF card?

[Hoagie_one]

Compact flash type 2.  IT wont fit in teh M3 without some modding, but it works if you can get it to fit.  It's an actual hard drive inside a Compact flash case.

[ften]

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Semi on the same topic I just got an Ipod 4GB mini drive on eBay for 44 bucks I'm using in my M3... 4GB of goodness...

-FTen

More info please.
what is this? I have never even seen a Ipod ( yes I know what one is)
What you mentioned ( 4 gb mini drive)
Is this like a CF card?

[/quote]

The Ipod mini's use 4GB Hitachi microdrives. Microdrives run on standard CF format 2 specs. This is slightly bigger then a standard CF card, but from what I've read 100% backwards compatible if space allows. They do use about 2.5 to 3x the power.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/micro/micro3k4.htm

*Now Apple gets a little tricky with their Ipod drives and leaves the first 30ish MB unformated/unpartitioned so it causes issues in some cameras, some other mp3s players, and the M3. Because Windows (can't speak for *nix or OS X) sees Compact Flash / Microdrives as a removeable drive  not as a drive it doesn't allow you delete partions on the CF/MD, effectively crippling the drive from use in certain devices. HP was nice enough to make a Flash drive format tool that makes any flash drive/device into one giant partion, therefor getting around Apple's "protection" and now allowing me to use it in my Digital camera and more importantly my M3. *
The site is;
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

*Disclaimer: That is specifically from my research and testing two different Apple Mini 4GB Hatchi microdrives, my M3, and 2 different digital cameras. Everything I saw should be taken as theory, really really likely theory but theory none the less. I also could be wrong. If anyone has more information on the process describe above, please chime in. Although I do know a formated Ipod 4GB Hitachi microdrive will 100% work with the M3.*

Hoagie - Battery life is cut to like 3 or 4 hours, but I'm willing to give up battery life for 4GB for cheap. I did have to remove the "bottom" cover, but this weekend I'm going to hack the bottom cover to make it look a little more prettier. Basically the drive is about MM thicker then the CF card. So because of the thinness of the cover's plastic, shaving down the thickness of the plastic really isn't an options. I'm leaning more to just cutting out a slot for the microdrive out of the plastic.
 

-FTen

[Hoagie_one]

I have a couple of 256 MB CF cards and i can keep 7-8 games on them at all times, not counting emulators\txt\homebrew, which take up less space.  I'd never use 4GB

[ften]

I found a better program then what I originally recommend to partition the drive, it's called 7Tool Partition Manager. Has a lot more options then the HP tool, although it isn't free.
http://7tools.paragon.ag/

I also put a more indepth writeup on my page about it;
http://www.fathertom.net/ipod/index.htm

-FTen