UNEASYreview: CycloDS Evolution
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While I have had a Nintendo DS for well over a year now, I was always looking to do more with it. For the last 6 months I had been thinking about a DS-XTREME, yet the price for a 2GB card cost as much as a new DS- so it didn’t seem cost effective. Googling around, I found the CYCLODS Evolution which basically did the same thing, yet allowed the user to use removable MicroSD (Tansflash) cards instead of having internal memory, and was more than half the price of the DS-XTREME.
The card arrived in the mail today. The box contains the DS cartridge, a MicroSD to USB dongle and instructions (which was absent from my box…). Adding backed up games of mine to a MicroSD card was as easy as drag and drop. Similarly, select videos and music worked when I just dragged them to the flash card and put them in the cartridge.
Some of the real benefits to using this cartridge I have seen are:
+Ability to Adjust LCD brightness during game play (NDSLite only)
+SlowMotion mode which can be used to slow down game play
+Supports the MicroSDHC specification, allowing for new high capacity memory cards (so far up to 4GB)
+Seamless saves in-game
There are a ton more features that I have yet to try out; ebook reader, cheat codes and booting straight into the last game used.
This is a great product in my eyes, and has helped to breathe new life into my DS.
i have been looking at these type of things for a while.
but i have no clue how they work or what the do exactly?
anyone know somthing i could read up to.. or if you want to email me something that will inform me more
ipeench@gmail.com
thanks :-D
I’ve been looking for a few months now but everywhere I go they’re sold out…… they look like the best bet when it comes to DS homebrew, backups, and miscellaneous other things……… course it’s cheaper to get the microSD by itself, I got a 2GB kingston for $20 or so on new egg…. I would’ve bought cheaper but I never heard of the other names and did not know their reliability………. I might break down and buy the white one soon if I can find no black one……… but I still don’t understand on why I even care about the color……. but for some reason I do…….. guess it gives me a chance to wait till they get all the production kinks out………
uhh… i described how i connected the microSD card to the usb dongle, dragged and dropped files. put the card into the CYCLODS cartridge and started up to my DS just fine. Thats how it works. And Links are present for convenience.
that is true, sorry i was over tired when i read it the 1st time
I have the M3 Simply and it’s pretty excellent. Sounds like they’re about the same.
I also have a CycloWiz (Wii) and it’s fantastic.
Is it possible to put multiple game backups on the same card?
CycloDS is awesome the best DS Dev card I have used, I have bought two of them and about to buy another.
Andrew: If it’s the same game then yes, all you have to do is change the name of it. It still reads as the same game but it will list it twice. If your talking about having more then one of any game on there then that is a yes also. It read off a MicroSD card, so you can have as many games on there as long as you have enough space :) .
The CycloDS really is a great DS card. I recommend it.
I also agree, the cyclods evolution is a fantastic card. I was so happy with its performance, that I set up a dedicated website that sell them