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[Cyprien Walker]

well i looked on a dutch site and it says :

Er zal ook een extra uitbreiding van het RAM geheugen van de Nintendo DS komen in de vorm van een GBA cartridge. Dit maakt het surfen sneller en zijn de mogelijkheden was uitgebreider.

means :

There also an extra expansion of the RAM will come memory of the Nintendo DS in the form of a GBA cartridge.  This makes the surfing on the net faster and are the possibilities are biger

hmm so how mutch will this be ?
and what can we do with it?
i might be usefull with some games as well more ram better games ? maybe ?

i dont know what do you guy's think ?

[Koji]

According to Flubba at pocketheaven.com (he works on a lot of homebrew GBA apps) he heard possibly 10MB or more.

The ram addition probably won't be used by any games, it'll be primarily used simply to store images and a small cache when you are browsing with Opera.

[Cyprien Walker]

hmm well ok but it something so we wont be able to use the web browser with supercard ? couse of that ?

hmm well dcemu says :

As details trickle in as to the full extent of Nintendo's browser plans for its increasingly-essential DS portable, fresh information on the technology underpinning the Internet software is starting to trickle out.



To enable a smooth web experience, the DS will receive a RAM upgrade, via the Game Boy Advance cartridge slot. The add-on will be bundled with the Opera browser DS cart, the whole package costing just a shade under 20 quid in Japan. No US or European announcement regarding the surfing software has yet surfaced, though something is expected within the next fortnight.



Nintendo has not disclosed how beefy the injection of RAM will be for the DS, nor has it opted to comment on possible future applications for the memory upgrade. Speculation is rife the the DS will follow in the footsteps of the Nintendo 64, which successfully deployed a RAM upgrade used in games including Perfect Dark, Zelda: Majora's Mask, Turok 2 and Banjo Tooie, though Nintendo declined to comment on the possibility at time of press.

[acky]

Perhaps it may be possible to patch the rom and then run off the NDS slot much like the locked tracks in MKDS for wifi; using the Supercard for that memory.

I think the expansion is a good idea. It suggests that web pages will not be preprocessed like the Mobile version meaning Nintendo won't have the option of dictating what you see.

[scoobos]

I think its a good idea only if the ram is persistent. Theres no point in a cache if it gets cleared every power up.

[754boy]

I think its a good idea only if the ram is persistent. Theres no point in a cache if it gets cleared every power up.

I agree with you man, most likely the cache will be saved.