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[Drako91]

Hey all, I just received my MiniSD SC Rumble, and was wondering what kinds of apps there are out there (homebrew, not hacked games/legit), and what I should get. I have the Super Key as well so that ups my arsenal a bit. I also need links for them so i can get them (if that is allowed right here). One last thing is that I need some help figuring this thing out (hence no instr. manual).
Tnx in advance, Drako  

[onekelly]

Congrats on your purchase! I am not too familiar with the rumble and homebrew, but here is a good start

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=41321 homebrew library

and here is another site that has a bunch of listings

http://www.dev-scene.com/Main_Page

play on playa!

[kkan]

remember that RUMBLE falls over with some homebrew that may need the extra ram that was removed in the RUMBLE series cards  

[Drako91]

:?: I had asked for some GBA Applications as well. I found some DS ones on one of the sites suggested, but all I found were GBA games on the other. I really need some GBA ones now (I'm going over to my friends house later after this message). Come on people, this particular trhead has had over 100 veiwers, is there not a single person out there (beside the ones that already replied) that can tell me where to find some GBA "Media" applications?

[dantheman]

It honestly doesn't matter whether or not we suggest any GBA stuff, as the Rumble series does not have GBA compatibility.  They took out the necessary RAM to lower costs.  Same thing with the M3 Pro series (though they left 4 MB of RAM in, so some GBA stuff will run).  

Sorry.  

If you do get a card with GBA compatibility, my recommendations would be GSM Player (converts music to lower-quality GSM files the GBA can decode in real time), Meteo v1.4 (converts short video clips to GBA format), Luminesweeper, Snezziboy, SNES Advance, PocketNES, Goomba Color, GBA JPEG viewer, GBA Book Reader, and Herg's Solitaire and Herg's Yahtzee.

[Drako91]

How is it possible to not play GBA games, if it has RAM for DS why can't it play GBA? Please explain more... (but if its not possible to do so... then I... can't play... it on... my Micro...) :|  :?    :cry:

[dantheman]

The GBA and DS load files in different ways, and the GBA requires lighting-fast responses, which is something that Compact Flash cards or SD cards cannot provide.  The original Supercard products copy the files from the CF/SD card to internal RAM and run them from there.  The DS only loads a header file into the DS's RAM and then swaps data from the card into RAM as needed.

You'd need a non-Rumble Supercard to play GBA stuff, sorry.

http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/NAND_and_NOR might explain the difference.  GBA games run on NOR-like technology, while the DS runs off NAND-type technology.