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SuperCard Lite Rumble review

SuperCard Lite Rumble review

 

I'm finally getting cought up with the current hardware on the market and decided to give one of these a try to see if it is a good media for running homebrew.

I'm using a DS-Lite with FlashMe v7 installed. Right out of the box I was having problems getting it to boot with FlashMe so I decided to update the firmware and go from there.

So, now that it is booting fine, let's see what homebrew we can get to work with it..

I headed over to dldi.drunkencoders.com to grab the DLDI driver for the SuperCard-Lite Rumble.. and guess what? There isn't one.. that's not a good sign. That basically rules out any homebrew that needs to read/write from FAT. Which is becomeing the standard for DS homebrew..

Ok.. well, let's not totally give up on it yet.. Let's see if it works with my Metroid Prime Pinball game. I have the official Nintendo rumble pak, but lets see if we can use this in place of it in case we lost the one that came with the game.

Nope.. doesn't work... Ok.. if it doesn't work with the game.. I doubt it will work with PepsiMan's Rumble demo.. but I'll try it anyway.

Nope..

Soo.. what does it work with?

I grabbed a bunch of homebrew .nds files (ones that don't use FAT) to see what would run.

-- Ran fine --
giana.nds
dsvnc.nds (no save, of course)
Eurotunnel.nds
DealornodealSound.nds


So basically, any of the self contained .nds files should work.. but wait.. Let's try it with some NDS Motion games.. most of them don't need fat.

DoubleSkillMotion.nds
CarreRougeMotion.nds
CircularDefenseMotion.nds
DSaber.nds
Eclipse Driving.nds
Triple_Rotation.nds

None of those worked.. The only one I was able to play was "Shake teh bottal"..

I even tried the .sc.nds version of them to make sure it wasn't something with the card, and no such luck. I also read that you can use MoonShell to launch homebrew and you will get better results.. but I couldn't get MoonShell to launch with ANY of the SuperCard versions.

So.. what is the rumble good for? I headed over to their site to find out..

Oh.. look at that.. a patching system.. so you can get rumble support for your illegally downloaded warez romz.. How nice. But what about the original game that I own? Can I get rumble support from it? Nope.. not unless I want to dump it, patch it, and run it from the SuperCard Lite Rumble.. Great.

Bottom Line
If you can afford any other media, buy it over this. It doesn't have any GBA compatiblity, so there is really no point for it to be a slot-2 device anyway. The thing is pretty much useless as is.. It has no homebrew support at all, and from the looks of it, never will.

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