***M3 USERS: Guide to using homebrew and ROMs on the Nintendo DS and Lite***

out of curiosity.. whats this about at the end of your post?

(....'d stuff just in case you were going to remove it)

 

I used some parts of the guide in a technical essay I wrote, I disscussed wether I could use it with my tutor and was told that if I added my course info to the guide to prove it's my work it's fine.

 

ah thats cool

 

isn't the nds mode cropped screen too? in gba mode you can just change the settings in the main menu to play gba games on the top screen. is the quality better in nds mode? like super mario for nes. will it be better to use nesDS to play it or just use the gamemanager?

 

you cant play GBA games in NDS mode

 

Sorry I meant GBA games on the top screen and bottom screen. nvm

 

is the M3 Perfect SD V2 the same as the M3 Perfect SD (Slim)?

 

Yes, the Slim is the V2.

 

hey i have m3 lite pro (SD) version.
i was wondering if i can play ANY/ALL NDS games?
cause i tried final fantasy III (E) but then after loading i just get a white screen...
can anyone tell me why?
thnx

 

convert it with the m3 game manager using safe mode. and not EVERY single game is supported. it says 99% support only

 

http://m3wiki.com/index.php?title=M3_NDS_roms

This is an up-to-date list of all games that work with the M3 and what settings are used to make them work, make sure you have the latest firmware on your M3 for newer games.

 

doesn't the M3 pro not have any type of memory on board? that means all games would have to be "Fast Boot" 4x.. right? A friend of mine bought one and he can only get games to work when its in 4xDMA mode

 

I've never thought about it, I've always assumed the M3 Pro was only missing the hardware required to play GBA games.

Looks like I need to do some research

EDIT:
Well whaddya know, it dosn't have it

So having a Pro will lower the compatibilty overall, however only a few games should be affected (can't think of many that must have Normal load to work)
Is a problem for larger homebrew applications though.

 

fast boot only loads the first batch into the memory though doesn't it? so it shouldn't affect compatibility too much.. just in regards to what settings to use

 

Fast Boot runs the game directly from the SD/CF card no additional memory needed - hence why it has always been a good idea to get a fast card, normal load moved the game into RAM (where it was guarenteed to run fast from) but only games under 32MB would fit.

GBA games needed to be copied into the RAM to work, but as it's not there they obviously can only use the DS's RAM (4MB)

 

I'm trying to find the newest version of the m3 games manager and firmware, dualscene only has v29, and the m3adapter site isnt loading up. anyone have a link to download the newest version? the newest i could find is v30, but its from a very sketchy site...

 

http://www.linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/

 

With the link you gave me, after i click on M3 V30 (Latest Version) it opens up a sub tree, of a ton of files, what files do i need out of there? I'll be using a M3 Perfect, with a 2 GB miniSD, on a normal Blue DS not a light. With

e -- English
b -- Chinese Big5
c -- Chinese GB
j -- Japanese
k -- Korean
f -- French
g -- German
i -- Italian
n -- Dutch
p -- Portugese
s -- Spanish
t -- Thai
so download all of the ones with the e?

 

updagcsd.e30c.rar is what your after, you will also want the GM 30a

 

I got the latest V30A Game Manager fro dualscene. It doesn't have the force R/W option anymore. And whenever I put a lot of ROMs into my SD (>500MB). The M3 will read corrupted filenames and the everything get corrupted reading from my laptop. I have to format it. Do I use FAT or FAT32 format?
Thanks!