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[Joey Ravn]

R4 team are the original makers and always come first with updates, M3 is working on M3 DS Real (there own slot1 solution), So you can see that when the real comes out M3 has no real reason to further support the M3 Simply. Also if you turn it around, buy a cheaper R4 and turn it into a M3 Simply

How much of this is true? I got an M3 Simply, and I'd love to see how my fresh, new and just-yesterday-bought product becomes "obsolete" once the M3 Team is done with it and starts supporting a new one  :roll:

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[sinkhead]

It's definatly true, the R4 is the original one.
My theory is that M3 hadn't finished their slot-1 card when all the other cards were being released, so they bought the rights to repackage the R4 before they finish the M3 Real which would have been their proper slot-1 card.
Both the R4 and the M3 Simply are awesome cards

- Sam

[Joey Ravn]

So... what will this M3 "Real" bring to our lifes? GBA support maybe? I can't imagine anything besides that that could make it better than the R4/Simply. Besides, I JUST bought it... I don't want to think I've spent my money on something with no future :S

[DeVS]

No slot 1 will allow GBA support. GBA support will have to come in the form of a homebrew GBA emu.

[Joey Ravn]

No slot 1 will allow GBA support. GBA support will have to come in the form of a homebrew GBA emu.

That's why I'm asking... What else could a "Real" cart could get? More functions? Like which? More speed when loading backups? Dunno...  :roll:

[DeVS]

I would say were hitting the limit of what carts will do. Slot 1, no rom patching, i'd say were about to the limit of "new" things to accomplish.

[Rob_Threat]

No slot 1 will allow GBA support. GBA support will have to come in the form of a homebrew GBA emu.

How very true. It seems unlikely that'll happen anytime tho.

The M3 Real rumor-mill in China says that M3 Real will support the M3 PDA, and DSM/GBM/GBS media. Other features to be annouced. It has a MoviePlayer 3 looking label. GBalpha.com had a "coming soon" pic, but not really any info. (For those that don't know... GBalpha is the company that makes M3/G6/MoviePlayer 1/2/SD).

I wish I could use my Simply w/M3Lite Perfect as a RAM pack for GBA ROMs the way DSLink uses the GBALink. GBalpha! Please make it happen.

[tennisgy]

I dont think the m3 simply has legacy systems emus in it, that could be an improvement.  *is already waithing for some long answer with big words about why this isnt possible*

[Rob_Threat]

I dont think the m3 simply has legacy systems emus in it, that could be an improvement.  *is already waithing for some long answer with big words about why this isnt possible*

That could be too, the Simply is very "bare-bones". They still make a big deal about "built-in emulators" of the Slot-2 carts.

The thing we English readers don't get to see much of is the way GBalpha pushes their video DSM/GBM format in China. There are several sections of GBalpha.com singing the glories of their newest DSM 2.0 video format. They have a lot a movie and TV shows preconverted on their Chinese language pages. It gets updated freqently too. They had Death Note ep12 w/Chinese subs ready to download within days of it's airing in Japan.

here's the page with the pic:

http://www.gbalpha.com/China/GBalpha_Product/M3G6Lite/index.html

[Koji]

The thing to remember is that a GBA emulator on DS is very unlikely, if only because the GBA medium will be nearly impossible to emulate from the DS slot. PCs get around this by loading the entire game into memory, but the DS' scant 4 megs isn't going to be able to do that.

People should just learn to hold onto their slot 2 devices if they want GBA as well as DS backups.