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title: "i'm in the nintendo ds homebrew club now"
date: 2006-09-19T12:16:12-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/09/19/im-in-the-nintendo-ds-homebrew-club-now/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides, hacks, gaming, nintendo, ds, homebrew, software]
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# i'm in the nintendo ds homebrew club now

<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 .
It 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>

I'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.

[sc]: http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-suplite.html
[gbamp]: http://movieadvance.com/
[pc3]: http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/dd-ds-pssc
[nt]: http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/index.php
[svm]: http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/

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                <a href="#comment-221082362" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-09-24T22:43:08">2006-09-24T22:43:08</time></a>
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            <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>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221082363" class="permalink"><time datetime="2006-09-28T04:21:30">2006-09-28T04:21:30</time></a>
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            <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>

<p>I'm getting ready to break down and buy some homebrew stuff for mine.</p></div>
            
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