NeoFlash Review by Miqualke

May 4th, 2005, 21:07 Posted By: wraggster

Miqualke posted this review of the new Nintendo DS Flashcart:

<BLOCKQUOTE>First thing i've done, trying to put battery in the FlashCard. It's a bit hard, but it needs to. losing contact will make loose all gba savegame.

Then i installed the driver kits 0.8a , plug the kit, install drivers and lunch app.
I was wondering why from the moment i installed drivers, the small green ligth disapear on the slim loader ?
but anyway, let's continue, seems normal.

The app see my Neoflash card. w00t \o/ !
So the first thing I tried is my game DSBonga.

I add it without changing anything. Arf, there is a loader. i think i didn't swith to nds type.
So I restart the app in NDS type.
ok let's do it again, DSBonga.
Arf small bug, when I try to burn it. It burned it in a second. too quick i think i refreshed the app and it told me he didn't see the flash card anymore.
ok let's restart the app.
The app doen't want to start, there were only a blank window.
Hum i unplugged USB restart the app, ask Phantom who answer he didn't have any of my problem, well now it seems to work, i plug again USB, a refresh, ok it's work. i retry to add DSBonga, ok fine, now it's a bit longer, it's really burning.

Nice, so let's try,
my firmware flashed DS boot it perfectly without magic key as expected.

Well now let's try something all people are questionning, a rom. I tried Metroids Rom from golden sun team.
let's burn it.
few bugs like before, nothing really important . it burned it pretty fast 160seconds for the 128Mbits.
I boot without magic key. doesn't work. ok
Let's try with Magic Key, with Metroid in it. It worked !!!!
Nice, let's try also the flasme trick A B X Y. It worked.
It's enougth for me. I didn't try save game because i was worry about my save.

Later phantom explain to me how he think it work for savegame. so no need to worry, you can have several save on a card.

Well let's make a brief summry with adds and cons:
adds:
-512 to 1024 Mbits !!
-pretty fast !
-tiny
-Nice Design
-Nice GBA booter
-Boot some commercial game
Cons
-The app need to be more reliable
-Savegame system need to be improve. at least some way to backup those.
-Finition need to be improve a few
-No multyboot hombrew rom yet
-Boot some commercial game
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