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[ojsinnerz]

Hi, I'm new to the forums. I've been wondering to get a slot 1 flashkart for the ds. I've narrowed it down to Cyclo and SCDS One SDHC. I've decided to go with SCDS, because it's cheaper (I can't afford a cyclo, because I'll be spending a lot of money...), Nicer and more customizable menu, and had some better skins I wanted. I don't mind if it's slow, as long as it's not as slow as the m3 ds real. Anyways, I'm getting a Sandisk 8 gig Micro sdhc, but would it effect the gamplay for certain games much? For example, both the castlevania games require a high micro sdhc, but there aren't any Micro sdhc that you can buy in Canada, Especially in Vancouver. (I checked my local Futureshop, and they were selling a sandisk 4 gig micro sdhc for 109.99, with 13% tax. That's overwhelming...) I tried to find Kingston JP ones, but I found a few on ebay (Not 8 gig), but they were from hong kong,and I couldn't trust them. So anyways, back on topic, Would games like Castlevania work fine on an 8 gig Sandisk Micro sdhc?

Thank you.

[khan]

I got my SanDisk 8GB MicroSDHC Class 4 from Amazon UK yesterday, I can confirm that POR's intro as well as actual gameplay was perfect while the intro of DOS was lagging pretty badly however it seemed to play fine apart from that.

BTW, there was no crash with that blue guy who gives us the sliding technigue, and first task. Pressing start did not crash on me either. *talking about POR*

Hope it helps

[Zorlin]

If you can, consider looking for ADATA microSD cards. At the moment, most people seem to be getting really good speed out of them, even higher than Kingston Japan and Toshiba cards.

Castlevania POR and DOS should run fine on that card, yes.

And don't forget to put on Zorlin's English Pack

[SuperCardStore]

Sandisk cards have always been slow in my experience - the brands that badge the Toshiba JAPAN part (almost all the other brands) are consistently up to 30% faster on my benchmarks.

The Sandisk 8GB I sell are Class 4 but that does not mean that all Class 4 are created equal - again the Toshiba Japan Class 4's are quicker.  The memory card distributors I buy from are not generally ready to sell Toshiba JAPAN 8GB and 16GB parts yet - will be very soon though - worth the wait IMO.

SDHC is not that easy to benchmark - I understand that it's not the same as benchmarking a hard disk, but all the freeware tools I've seen treat SDHC as a mounted disk drive, so the results might be misleading. 

The video intro test is a pragmatic one - it would be good to have a gameplay speed test but that could also be a factor of the quality of the game graphics code, and game graphics change all the time.

It used to be that the memory cards appeared slow, then improvements in the I/O routines speeded them up - in other words, the cards may have been slow, but the software was also slow to read and write.  People paid a lot of money to buy the fastest cards and it gave them a boost, but then, when the I/O routines were updated, the people who'd bought the standard memory cards got the same speed boost...

Read speed doesn't seem to matter much, because the entire program is loaded into console memory before execution (I have not noticed any that page code in, but some might as games get larger)

If I know what the maximum possible throughput was, then could safely say what was best - I suspect that the newer micro-SD cards are way faster than the console is capable of reading, and maybe writing - who knows?
C.

[dantheman]

I know there's a speed tester program that runs on the DS itself made by tepples.  Would this be more accurate of a method to use for comparing card speeds?

[SuperCardStore]

Yes - I have it on my todo list...
It would be good if a site (maybe this one?) could collect the Tepples results from people to get some community objectivity in the choice of memory cards...