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[ImmortalNinja]

Oki doki did the power test with me new toys for a quick comparison:
These test were carried out using the same battery on two DS-Lites, one flashed and one not, with the highest brightness.
The volume was turned to the max with headphones plugged in.
Mario Kart was booted and left on the intro/demo screen:

Orginal Cart
Unflashed DS:               5hrs 10 Mins

SuperCard MiniSD:
Unflashed with SuperKey:                4hrs 15Mins
Unflashed with SuperKey Removed:  4hrs 22Mins
Flashed with empty DS slot:              4hrs 20 Mins
Flashed with cart in DS slot:              4hrs 24 Mins


SuperCard Lite:
Flashed with cart in DS slot:              4hrs 24 Mins

G6 Lite
Unflashed with SuperKey:                  4hrs 25 Mins

Ds-Link:
Flashed with rumblePak in slot2:           4hrs 43 Mins

Make of this what you will.

Guess I should take the time to do a test with the orginal cart on the flashed DS too.....

KK

[meangreenie]

Thanks for posting these results; these confirm another users findings (can't remember members name).


Of course the M3 would get about 14 hours or so  :roll:

[pte]

What about a DS-Link without a rumble pack? That is the thing I am most interested of atm.

[ImmortalNinja]

Dont think the rumble pack makes much difference in this case, as Mario Kart doenst support it and certainly not on the opening screens.
KK

[jmr]

damb i get alot less than 4 hours with a flashed ds phat & supercard CF

[pte]

Dont think the rumble pack makes much difference in this case, as Mario Kart doenst support it and certainly not on the opening screens.
KK

Hehe, that is so true. I read it very fast and missed the first time there was. It answerred to my questions completely so now I know that the Slot 1 solution doesn't consume a lot less energy than a Slot 2 solution. Playing a GBA game on the other hand halves the playtime due to the extra memory functions.

[Devil_Spawn]

im instested in the acekard battery life 0.o

[pte]

Since it has to read from a microSD I bet it is almost the same as it is with a DSLink. Even the Slot 2 solutions don't loose too much, at least not for me since 20 minutes is nothing.

[lenselijer]

strange that the g6 lite is almost the same as supercard lite.

so microsd slot really doesnt use more power...

[ShadowFalls]

This test would be more complete if you threw in more direct competition such as the M3.

[ImmortalNinja]

Probably....but I dont have one of those!
Wanna share?
KK

[The_Legend]

I'd like to see some results with the DS Lite on the different light settings, and I think that when you play the game it drains much faster... I have a friend that says his DS Lite's battery is completly drained after 5h28, on the 2nd light level. I think mine is similar, still testing.

he's using an unflashed DS Lite + Supercard SD + Superkey and I'm using a flashed DS Lite with a Supercard Lite, empty slot, btw.

[Doggy124]

Of course the M3 would get about 14 hours or so  

I think 14 hours  is the lowest brightness. Hou about it in highest brightness.


My Flashed NDS + SCminiSD + DS Card in slot1 , I think it can stay for 3 hours.   How long it should be in original DS card?

[ImmortalNinja]

Of course these tests werent meant to be an absolute values.
I started these tests to see if there was much difference between having a flashed and non-flashed DS, half way through I realised there may be many factors that could make these results invalid. However despite what other people have suggested I have never noticed very much difference in battery life between the two and these results seem to confirm this.
I do think that flashed and non-flashed DS might have very different battery lives when put in sleep mode though, I just havent gotten around to testing it.

I can think of many different things that could effect battery life, such as the suggested playing with it.
I have no doubt leaving it on the Castlevania intro would also drain the battery much faster with the constant card reads, thus logically playing different games would lead to different times.

It does serve as a nice overall brief compraison though and I think its interesting to see that for all the flash cards on both flashed and unflashed DS's the play time is more or less the same (for the intro of Mario Kart at least    )

And so in general I think battery life isnt that much of a deal breaker when choosing which flashcart to buy.

For a thread with battery tests on different light settings:
http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4768&highlight=battery

KK

[AOforever1]

check out this link:
http://www.jonsthoughtsoneverything.com/2006/08/01/flash-your-ds-lite-to-save-battery-life/
I guy claimed on his blog that the battery last much longer on sleep mode.