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[tennisgy]

Source: http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=4036

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Acekard R.P.G (Real Play Gear) has been announced today.
The slot-1 device is the worlds first flash kit to support a “double storage” solution.
Acekard R.P.G. comes with 8GB built in NAND flash memory plus a slot for microSD or microSDHC cards.

The team also announced they will open source all the code 

[spoiler][A perfect flash card for NDS games lovers — Acekard R.P.G release]

After 10 month development, we proudly announce the arrival of next generation acekard which called “Acekard R.P.G (Acekard Real Play Gear)”. Acekard R.P.G is revolutionary and all the functions are developed base on the needs of our customers. Acekard R.P.G might not be 100% perfect, but it is definitely the best card on the current market.

[World’s first double storage slot-1 card, Support both build in NAND Flash and Micro SD memory card]

    Acekard R.P.G (Acekard Real Play Gear), the world’s first “double storage” slot one flash card which gives you the advantages of both build in and external memory system. With the fast NAND flash, your game will never lack again, and with the external micro SD memory card, you can easily expand the storage space.Support micro SDHC card, 4 gigabyte max for now.

[Build in “Quick Exchange” Technology”]

    With the “Quick Exchange” Technology”, Acekard R.P.G can easily exchange files between NAND Flash and MicoSD memory card and you can also choose either start the game in NAND or Micro SD memory card.

[World’s first “AUTO Save type detection” flash card]

    Acekard R.P.G build in with the “AUTO SAVE TYPE DETECTION” technology which able to auto detects the save type up to 99% of the games. (Until now, we still haven’t found any games that Acekard R.P.G is not able to detect.)

[Build in USB connector, support U-Disk]

    No more Card Reader or slot 2 USB Reader is needed. To transfer the games between computer and Acekard R.P.G, the only thing you need is a standard Mini USB cable. Acekard R.P.G supports both USB 1.0 and 2.0, so the file transfer speed is extremely fast. Once the Acekard R.P.G connects with the computer, it can be used as an U-Disk as well.(However, if user want to use the  microSD card on PC, a card reader is needed.)

[100% Compatibility for all NDS games]

    Acekard R.P.G simulates the original game cart which makes it able to play all the new released NDS games (Clean roms) without updating the kernels.

[Build in “Rom Trimming” Function; automatically remove the un-necessary data in the Roms]

    Acekard R.P.G is the world’s first flash card which has the “Rom Trimming” Function build in. When you copy the file between Micro SD and NAND flash, if there is any un-necessary data in the Roms, Acekard R.P.G will remove it automatically.

[Fully touch screen operation]

    Acekard R.P.G is using the idea of iPhone which gives the customer a totally new control experience*.

* You are able to switch to “Button Control” as well.
[Original game cart size, no flash needed, no passme needed, easy plug and play]

    Acekard R.P.G has the same size as original game cart and you don’t have to flash your machine or using passkey in order to use Acekard R.P.G. It is just plug and play.

[Able to use as a passkey to boot slot2 flash cards]

    Acekard R.P.G can be used as a passkey, so you can boot your slot2 flash cards with it, and no MicroSD card is needed.

[Using “write balance” technology, able to re-write NAND flash more than usual]

    The “write balance” technology makes the Acekard R.P.G utilize the NAND flash evenly, so it will last longer than the original game cart.

[Save file directly stored into memory card, no battery needed and never lost]

    Acekard R.P.G will store your save file directly into NAND flash or Micro SD memory card, so there is no battery needed to keep the save file, and it will never lost.

[Micro SD files exchange]

    You can exchange the files between two Micro SD memory cards by using the build in NAND Flash. Make games sharing more easily

[Support Multi-language]

    You can easily change the language within Acekard R.P.G.

[Easy Skin Change]

    You can easily DIY Acekard R.P.G skin, and change it at anytime.

[Open Source]

    We will open all the source code of our OS and also the AKMENU and Acekard R.P.G I/O interface, so homebrew programmer could easily change or re-code the whole system.

[Acekard R.P.G future function]

    Support multi save files
    Support Action Replay cheat
    …………………….
    ……………………..
    All these features will be implemented in next release.[/spoiler]

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[PharaohsVizier]

Sounds insane, I can't wait!

[tennisgy]

Sounds insane, I can't wait!

sounds meh
Unless enough people get interested then homebrewers might start their own interfaces and stuff. 

Supercard remains the best only due to real time book   and cheats  imo

[h8uthemost]

This sounds pretty good actually. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be a crap cart. I really like all that memory.

Wonder what this cart is going to cost?

[PharaohsVizier]

Well the two way memory is kind of interesting, I can use some crap MicroSD card for non demanding games, and the NAND for good games.  As for open source, I hope people can make good use of it.

[Doggy124]

8Gb NAND Flash + 4Gb TF = 12Gb!!!!!

[sinkhead]

Just to clarify, it's gigsBITS not gigaBYTES

- Sam

[Doggy124]

Just to clarify, it's gigsBITS not gigaBYTES

- Sam

so....
8gigsBITS = ???gigaBYTES

Anyway "Support micro SDHC card" is good enough.

[PharaohsVizier]

=1gigabyte

[metalcaipira]

Few things called my attention... microSDHC support, USB direct plugin... but Cyclo Evo is on the top, and one thing that could beat it is the Real Save State feature...

[h8uthemost]

8Gb NAND Flash + 4Gb TF = 12Gb!!!!!

That's the samething I thought too. I wanted this cart for 8GB of internal memory. Now that I found out it only has 1GB, I'm no longer interested. I have so many cart that are basically the same, I don't need one more.

[sonicwind]

it's 1GB+microsd if you forgot to read that part.

[h8uthemost]

Yes, thank you for repeating what sinkhead and pharaoh both stated, just a couple posts above yours. But thanks for the reminder, because since yesterday, I had forgotten.

[kms]

acekard has never been a very popular slot 1, they were one of the first to bring the slot 1 along with supercard DS one, and has released two version of the acekard, both flop, they must show something new to go against the M3 simply/R4 (the most popular slot 1), and cycloDS evo. The twin memory is'nt going to much good if they don't even support there product.


kms

[PharaohsVizier]

Well I wouldn't say the AceKard flopped.  There were quite a few reasons they weren't successful, and a bad team wasn't behind it IMO.

At first, it got quite a bit of hate because of the AKFS (the file system), as it limited use to only windows, and it seems like a patcher, and because it claimed to support clean roms, not many people liked it.  As far as I know, at the time, all the other flash carts used patchers, except the "awesome DSX" cart.

Later on, the AceKard+ was released, which was the AceKard, except it supported FAT and clean roms.  It seems to me that this was a pretty good update.  Too bad I had and have no means of finding one for reviewing.  Anyways, they offered free updates for everyone with the old AceKard, and if most people thought this through, I think it is an amazing gesture, it showed that AceKard stood behind their product, and that they were willing to fix things.  Personally, from all of the people I heard it from (so not from my own experience), the Acekard+ was a pretty good flash cart.

Sure there weren't too many updates, but the cart worked with all the latest games without an update.  Unless there were new features, there was no reason to do quick fixes.  In theory, if all the games worked without new patches, why bother?  All of the other flash carts at the time played games and that was it, it wasn't until later that these new features like cheats and download play came in, and now they have a new flash cart.

So what were the reasons it "flopped"?  Well basically the early reviews was probably a tremendous punch in the face for them.  At the time DSX seemed to be an amazing cart, and Acekard certainly didn't stand up to it.  Then the Acekard+ was released, very few people even knew about the cart, not to mention that most people attributed Acekard flash carts to the original, even now there are people on forums that claimed that the old Acekard never supported FAT and only used the AKFS.  The final reason is that the Acekard team's English wasn't all that great, their support is mainly in Chinese, which obviously doesn't go well here.

It probably sounds like I am defending the AceKard, and I probably am as far as this point goes.  I just want people to judge the AceKard by this product and not their past products.  Look at the CycloDS Evolution, their previous products sucked, their new product rocks.  The moral of the story is that sometimes companies change for the worse or better.  Personally, from GBATemp's first impressions, I don't think the AceKard RPG is all that great, but I don't think it is bad either.  The price is good, and it is open source.  It really depends on luck, whether some talented homebrew developer buys one of these and decides to code a ton of stuff for them, or if they will rot in the corner because no one wants to take advantage of the open source.