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Is there rom trimmer for the SCDS?

Started by WegeHop, January 21, 2007, 04:28:56 PM

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WegeHop

If there is, where can i find it?

Also I've always wondered if you could use a trimmer like you do for roms but use one on movies fro the DS. Cna you do that?

thanx
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sinkhead

No, it will not work with movies. About the trimmer, you can use ANY trimmer for ANY device, it doesn't matter.

- Sam

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Koji

Quote from: "WegeHop"If there is, where can i find it?

Also I've always wondered if you could use a trimmer like you do for roms but use one on movies fro the DS. Cna you do that?

thanx

Since you seem to be a little misguided on how a trimmer works, I'll take a moment to explain. DS carts come in specific sizes between 64mbit to 1024mbit (8MB to 128MB). The most prevalent being 256Mb, 512Mb, and 1024Mb (32MB, 64MB, and 128MB respectively). If a DS game is in between the size of one of those carts, and nearly all of them are, it's bumped up to the next largest size. That is, if a DS game is 49MB in size, they have to put the game on a 64MB cart. At the end of that 64MB cart though there will be 15MB of empty space, trimmers simply remove that empty space. Some games barely use up anymore then the basic empty space, while others may take up nearly all of the space so trimmers will have varied results on different games.

This of course doesn't work on videos because there is no empty space in the videos. They aren't designed to fill an entire DS cart, they are ment to be only as big as is necessary for the video and audio.

WegeHop

Sports + Video Games = My Life

WegeHop

Quote from: "tennisgy"http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/ndstrim-50094.html

I downloaded that trimmer but when i select a rom to trim it says " The system cannot find the file specified".

What did i do wrong?

Thank you
Sports + Video Games = My Life