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  "date": "2006-09-19T16:16:12.000Z",
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  "title": "i'm in the nintendo ds homebrew club now",
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  "html": "<blockquote cite=\"http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc\">Passscard is the perfect flash card boot-up solution for DS LITE &amp; NDS .\nIt is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3, Neo, SC &amp; G6 etc. </blockquote>\n\n<div class=\"quotesource\">Source: <a href=\"http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc\">Divineo.com - Product Information</a></div>\n\n\n\n<p>I've just received a <a href=\"http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc\">Passcard 3</a> in the mail.  Nintendo DS homebrew, here I come!  I'm particularly excited about <a href=\"http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/index.php\">NitroTracker</a> and <a href=\"http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/\">ScummVM</a>.  Though I've only got a <a href=\"http://movieadvance.com/\">GBA Movie Player</a> and a 128MB CF flash card from a camera, that seems enough to run most of this stuff so far.  Unfortunately, it just sticks out from the Nintendo DS Lite by an inch or so - almost half the depth of the handheld itself!  I think one of my next purchases may be a more compact and capable <a href=\"http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-suplite.html\">SuperCard MicroSD</a>, which fits flush in the Nintendo DS Lite and accepts MicroSD expansion cards.</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082362\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://foosel.net\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=bc9bc547d634817fe7ca6348119b0eaf&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://foosel.net\">foosel</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221082362\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-09-24T22:43:08\">2006-09-24T22:43:08</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Congratulations on the Passcard ;) I got one myself a couple of months ago, including a M3 CF, and playing Monkey Island on the DS rocks ;) I have to warn you though concerning SD based units, there were a couple of issues not so long ago with several homebrew apps (including Scumm), and write-support for SD is afaik still rather new in the standard fat-lib used by homebrew devs. So you might want to make sure that your most beloved or interesting apps will actually work like expected prior to spending loads of money.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082363\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://twitter.com/adammokan\"><img src=\"http://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/amokan.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://twitter.com/adammokan\">Adam Mokan</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221082363\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-09-28T04:21:30\">2006-09-28T04:21:30</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>How does the Passcard 3 fit in the DS? I've heard that its a real tight fit and you really have to force it to \"click\".</p>\n<p>I'm getting ready to break down and buy some homebrew stuff for mine.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "<blockquote cite=\"http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc\">Passscard is the perfect flash card boot-up solution for DS LITE & NDS .\r\nIt is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3, Neo, SC & G6 etc. </blockquote><div class=\"quotesource\">Source: <a href=\"http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc\">Divineo.com - Product Information</a></div>\r\n\r\nI've just received a [Passcard 3][pc3] in the mail.  Nintendo DS homebrew, here I come!  I'm particularly excited about [NitroTracker][nt] and [ScummVM][svm].  Though I've only got a [GBA Movie Player][gbamp] and a 128MB CF flash card from a camera, that seems enough to run most of this stuff so far.  Unfortunately, it just sticks out from the Nintendo DS Lite by an inch or so - almost half the depth of the handheld itself!  I think one of my next purchases may be a more compact and capable [SuperCard MicroSD][sc], which fits flush in the Nintendo DS Lite and accepts MicroSD expansion cards.\r\n\r\n[sc]: http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-suplite.html\r\n[gbamp]: http://movieadvance.com/\r\n[pc3]: http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc\r\n[nt]: http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/index.php\r\n[svm]: http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/\n\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n            \n        <ul class=\"comments\">\n            \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082362\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://foosel.net\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=bc9bc547d634817fe7ca6348119b0eaf&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://foosel.net\">foosel</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221082362\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-09-24T22:43:08\">2006-09-24T22:43:08</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Congratulations on the Passcard ;) I got one myself a couple of months ago, including a M3 CF, and playing Monkey Island on the DS rocks ;) I have to warn you though concerning SD based units, there were a couple of issues not so long ago with several homebrew apps (including Scumm), and write-support for SD is afaik still rather new in the standard fat-lib used by homebrew devs. So you might want to make sure that your most beloved or interesting apps will actually work like expected prior to spending loads of money.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221082363\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://twitter.com/adammokan\"><img src=\"http://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/amokan.jpg\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://twitter.com/adammokan\">Adam Mokan</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221082363\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-09-28T04:21:30\">2006-09-28T04:21:30</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>How does the Passcard 3 fit in the DS? I've heard that its a real tight fit and you really have to force it to \"click\".</p>\n\n<p>I'm getting ready to break down and buy some homebrew stuff for mine.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        </ul>\n    \n        </div>\n    ",
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