I would Like to see a new Supercard use

wgz4life · December 11, 2005, 12:56:54 AM

MiniSD card. make it the size of a normal GBA game

what do you guys think

Slippy · December 11, 2005, 01:06:45 AM

unfortunately.... if you look at the internals of the supercard SD you'll see that all the chips are on one side and the port is on the other (literally flip the board to see it), and the chips take up the entire side. Unless they get smaller parts to stuff in there it won't happen

:cry:

Kase · December 11, 2005, 02:04:33 AM

Start it up and I'll buy it

VresiBerba · December 11, 2005, 02:11:43 AM

Quote from: "Slippy"unfortunately.... if you look at the internals of the supercard SD you'll see that all the chips are on one side and the port is on the other (literally flip the board to see it), and the chips take up the entire side. Unless they get smaller parts to stuff in there it won't happen
:cry:

That's odd, because even though I have the SD version and can't really confirm it, the CF version seems to be the same size of a real cart. Though instead of the cart sticking out, the CF card does instead, which it of course does not on the SD version.

monk456l · December 11, 2005, 03:00:59 AM

I would really like to see the Crystal Engine that is used in the M3s for the SC

to watch better quality movies

Adattude · December 11, 2005, 07:59:01 AM

I just want less slowdown in GBA games

Are there going to be anymore updated regarding this or is the SC now mainly a DS player

Koji · December 11, 2005, 08:48:46 AM

Quote from: "Adattude"I just want less slowdown in GBA games Are there going to be anymore updated regarding this or is the SC now mainly a DS player

Probably not because there is literally nothing more that can be done. No matter what you do in software, if the bottle neck is the hardware (which it is) there is really nothing you can do to increase the speed.

For some reason people think software changes can somehow fix everything... All cars have onboard computer chips that help regulate things... At times you can tweak or replace that chip to help with better gas mileage or higher horse power... But no matter what you do, a VW Beatle will NEVER be a porche... no matter how much you play with it's software. A 66mhz pentium will never be a 3.4 ghz P4. Etc etc.

You can try playing around with the prefetcher patch (that helps a lot for me on most games). But that's the best you can do.

rocky · December 11, 2005, 09:38:02 AM

yea but if they created a new supercard with SD minis then they might be able to get smaller parts and faster to eliminate slowdowns. I think over 1\2 the people on this website would buy it including me.

Slippy · December 11, 2005, 11:32:11 AM

True... I'd buy it too. Someone should ask romman...

deathrabbit · December 11, 2005, 12:27:11 PM

I would not buy it since I have several devices that take sd chips, but none that take sd minis, and I already have a couple of sd chips.

Critical_Impact · December 12, 2005, 02:11:01 AM

Make a new SD version that uses more expensive parts for example the ram, so that slow downs dont occur.

cory1492 · December 12, 2005, 07:11:14 AM

There is indeed something that can be done to improve GBA play - just check out this thread:
http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1289

Koji · December 12, 2005, 10:02:52 AM

Quote from: "Critical_Impact"Make a new SD version that uses more expensive parts for example the ram, so that slow downs dont occur.

If you are talking about in GBA games, then what you want is an M3 :p

If you mean in DS games, the only way to insure no slowdowns in them would be to make a supercard with at least 128MB of RAM so that even the biggest DS roms could be run from them. If you play them straight from the SD or CF cards there will always be at least some slow down.

ekolimits · December 12, 2005, 11:33:24 AM

yea i agree... the card is a bit too fat... thats all