sd supercard is working or not ????

vtr4423 · July 15, 2005, 02:17:02 AM

I just wonder how many peoples has sd/supercard and working??

or not working, faulty card1 "can't read sd cart" ??

Ecco · July 15, 2005, 12:22:09 PM

Of course it's working :-)

By the way, just be careful to use a _real_ SD card, not a MMC. I had a 512Mb MMC, and had to buy another SD card. They are very slightly different, yet enough to prevent MMC to work on SuperCardSD.

Now when you'll get your SuperCardSD to work, there will be a few drawbacks as compared to real cartidges :
1/ A few games (not many at all) get slowed down. Mario kart is one of them. But over 95% of the games will work OK.
2/ It will drain power faster. Just get a GBA-SP - they're backlit, have a very long-lasting battery, and they're just sooo small :-)

stupid2ass · July 15, 2005, 06:53:33 PM

Yes I can confirm it is working.
But if you have a Supercard CF version, don't bother upgrading to the SD version.
The same games suffering slowdown still suffer here (albeit a bit less slowdown but still there is a slowdown. Bummer).
I am a little miffed though that my games load slower on the SD version than the CF version (despite my CF being non high-speed).
The SD version also feels a lot more study than the CF version.

vtr4423 · July 16, 2005, 01:26:26 AM

thx guys, i better stick with my cf/supercard.

stupid2ass · July 16, 2005, 02:27:05 AM

I think they did improve it.
My only concern now (I don't want toupgrade the firmware, I've seen some stories) is that my DS recognizes it as a GBA add-on and not a GBA cartridge.
This never happened with my SC CF version.

Trenton_net · July 18, 2005, 12:09:07 PM

Any ideas what kind of improvement/compat people are experiencing with the Supercard SD?

Speaking of firmware, do both use the same, or do you need to download a special branch of firmware for each model card?

stupid2ass · July 18, 2005, 01:06:12 PM

The SD version is slightly faster. I don't experience as many slowdowns now but there are still slight slowdowns but not nearly as bad as the CF version so it does look like they upgraded something.
Battery drain seems slightly worse though with the SD version IMO.
I'd get the M3 instead of this if the M3 is all that they promised.

Trenton_net · July 18, 2005, 01:41:59 PM

Hmm, I wonder if the Supercard SD can take 2 gig SD cards.