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[vlaine]

Can anybody explain me exactly how this Magic Key is supose to work.  It's not clear to me.  
1. What is the minimum size of gba Flash card to run MK2 or MK3
2. Can it play gba games or not.  
3. Can it save any type of NDS saves or only 2M.  
4. Why does MK3 has on board memory?  What can you use it for?

Thanks.

[takuma]

Yea this looks interesting.  seems to have alot of nice feature.  Crap I want to cancel my superkey now.  I ordered from hopebuy does anyone know if i can cancel my order?

[albrowne]

I'd like to know how you get saves off the MagicKey and if when you save it over writes the DS cartridge save.

[takuma]

Look at that http://www.neoflash.com/img/ALL-MK-2005.jpg .  Man it seems really nice although I am not sure why it can take sd or mmc cards.  Does this mean it can work for ds games without a gba flash card?

[vlaine]

Here is the information I found:

MagicKey2 / MagicKey3 Main Feature:
(as announced by manufacturers. Not yet tested by Gameboy-Advance.net stuff)

1.Boot from ANY Flash cart.
2.Included 8Kb high-speed inner buffer, can use command to read/write it.
3.Included 2M SRAM for NDS game save ( 100% hardware save, support EEPROM and Serial Flash directly ), and can compress the game save then backup to 16M menu flash later ( SMS function ).
4.Included 16M Flash for menu, can store the MK2 / MK3 boot menu program, and can backup / restore the NDS SMS file
5.Support SD and MMC card directly, maximum memory size up to 16Gb ~ 32Gb.
6.Included Li-Ion battery, lifetime over 5 years, can keep the game save data around 3~7 days, for temporary using only, must backup the save data to menu flash later for a long time safe backup.
7.Battery voltage display, can show NDS working voltage and MK2 / MK3 Li-Ion battery voltage.
8.Support software reset, it'll help to make the multi-files loader.
9.Support memory bank swap, very easy to use offset to swap the memory bank.
10.Support power saving mode, some hardware module can enter sleeping mode when it don't run, and can use command to call them wake up.
11*.Included 256M / 512M Flash, for run PD rom and APP rom through MK2/MK3 and not need SD/MMC support.
12*.Included 64M / 128M Zip RAM, for decompress the data and run directly, also can use for a huge size high-speed working buffer, for example the Linux / EMU / PDA ...
(* note: No.11 and No.12 is for MK3 only, and MK2/MK3 don't support iQue and new color NDS, it's for original version NDS only, and you need to use ANY GBA flash cart to boot it from GBA port)
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From what I understand you need a gba flash card to boot the MK2 or MK3.  Then it takes the nds games from the sd card you inserted in the magic key.  it seems to save the nds game inside the built-in 2M SRAM.  But I don't know what happend with different save size (ex: Yoshi touch and go is a 4K save, Nintendogs is a 2M save).  Is it able to save any save type smaller or equal to 2M (0M, 4K, 64K and 2M) ?  If yes, we would not need to buy one game of each size to save our nds roms and it would be great.

From what I understand, the MK3 difference from the MK2 is the 512M Flash.  I suppose it's to play game but don't ask me how to put them there.  Or maybe it's to keep your saves.  It's not clear to me.  

If you find any review or well explained faq, could you copy it here.  The product looks nice, but it's features are still not clear to me.

Thanks to all of you.

[Ramin]

No biggie. At first I freaked out, but I realized that it still needs a GBA Flash cart, so I exhaled in relief.

[SolidSnake]

lol, i didnt understand why you need to use a SD card on it o.0

[albrowne]

Wait, so it saves your game directly onto the SD card? And it works with SuperCard?

Sign me up!

[vlaine]

I finally had a few information.  You put the boot program on the gba card.  Then you put your nds games on the SC card of the MK2 MK3.  It emulates any save size (4K, 64K, 2M) and save it locally on the mk2, mk3.  Then, if you want to keep it for more than 5 days you have to move your saves to the SC card and you keep it as long as you want.  

What remains unclear:
does it support clean nds games.  It seems it will be possible with the mk3 because it has built-in memory, but it's not clear if it's already ready.  I don't know if it will work with the mk2.

does it play gba games.  Nobody can tell me if it will be possible to play gba games from the sc card.  The worst situation would mean you have to play gba games with your gba cart.

So there is a lack of information.  Even the producers of the mk2 mk3 don't seem to know what they will sell.  Funny hein?

[Ramin]

I'm not surprised... I read a lot of bad things about NeoFlash.

[brakken]

I wonder why these features are coming out as a new product and not going to the NeoFlash as promised?