The Nintendo DS is a dual-screen handheld game console created and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 in the United States, Canada and Japan. The console is similar to the Game Boy Advance SP, with two LCD screens inside and with the bottom a touch screen. The Nintendo DS also features a built-in microphone and supports wireless IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standards. It allows players to interact with each other within short distance (about 10-30 m) or online with the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service.
What is a supercard? In fact, it’s a device that can be plugged into the external port and allows a person to approach content from an SD micro-card. Since you can load one of these flash cards, it makes all sorts of potential applications for your DS available. It can be music, pictures or a bunch of nintendo games. Nowadays, there are several different supercards available for the Nintendo DS, lite (NDS) and Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP (GBA).
But how can you know which one is suitable for you? Where to get this supercard? How to use the software?
First of all we need to know: “What version of NDS do you have?” Therefore, you can buy the right equipment for your NDS. Do the following: check the manufacturing date of your DS. Usually, if you have a DS that is bought in the summer of 2005, you’ll require the “2nd gen” version of a particular device. If it’s before that time, then you’ll require the “1st gen” version of the device.
What is a media cart and what can they do?
Media carts, movie players, etc, all various names for the same concept. You’ll notice a variety of names. Supercard, M3, G6, DS-X, Movie Players, etc. When these carts are plugged into your GBA slot of your NDS, you can play media (movies, music, games, e-books, pictures) via a flash-memory. Amazing, isn’t it?
What do they do? Just as what I said, they play media. If you think about the wonderful things you can now do with your NDS. You can play your music, watch movies, watch pictures, read e-books, and run NDS homebrew by using it.