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Posted 18 November 2006 - 03:24 PM

ok, so im a complete n00b in olaying roms and stuff on the m3 perfect mini sd(dont have one yet). i need extra instructions on how i will start when i get it. first, do i need both the passcard 3 and passkey 2(what is the difference anyway between both of htem....)? i need to know exactly everything i need to play NDS, SNES, GBA and Application ROMs, music(MIDIs, too), ebooks and videos. And where can i get some good ebooks and music and videos on the internet for free? do i need to download emulators and load thm onto the m3 or do they have them built in? AND MOST IMPORTANT, I need step to step instructions on what to do when all my stuff arrives! STEP TO STEP, AND AS EXACT AS POSSIBLE!!!!! PLUS, recommend me a few ROMs.and how do i flash my ds with passcard3? and by step to step i mean after my DS is flashed. like uploading ROMs, and stuff...

You only need a passcard 3. I don't know what a passkey 2 is, but all you need is a passcard 3.To play NDS, GBA, NES, SMS, Gamegear and gameboy roms you need to use the M3 Game Manager to properly format them. HERE is an okay guide on how to use the game manager. As far as playing SNES I don't know if the M3 is set up to do that out of the box or now, but I know there are SNES emulators you can download for free. i think one is called Snezzi or something like that. With the passcard 3 your don't need to flash your DS. Flashing is dangerous as it can fry your DS making it not work if you flash it wrong. The purpose of the passcard 3 is so you don't have to flash your DS. After the ROMs are converted using the M3 game software you just put them on your mini SD card along with the .dat files which are created during the conversion.

thanks, man, that guide is great. except that u need to work on yo anglais(english)........
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Posted 18 November 2006 - 10:55 PM

The new m3 mini Sd pro is so cool! It is only half the price of the original m3.The only reason for that is because it only plays NDS roms, it dosn't play GBAroms. So if you just want to play NDS roms. Then I recommend it.But before I actually buy it I got one question.Do I need to buy a passcard 3 to use it or can I just use the flashme firmware?Please respond.

Edited by Irish_Wizard23, 22 November 2006 - 04:34 PM.

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Posted 19 November 2006 - 01:20 AM

cool thanks that sucks but its still ok
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Posted 19 November 2006 - 02:31 AM

firmware's fine.If you aregettin that though, why not get Rumble cartridges?
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Posted 19 November 2006 - 10:12 AM

what no. DS firmware wont work, what you would need is a passcard to load up flashme firmware maybe. or u could just use the passcard
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Posted 19 November 2006 - 01:15 PM

I just automatically assumed that the person meant FlashMe Firmware.....
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Posted 19 November 2006 - 07:19 PM

A passkey2 does somelike like a Passcard 3 but you need a DS game connected to it and also to program it if your using the passkey2 function.Passcard 3 is a bypass like passkey 2 but it uses less battery power than the passkey 2@jambog If you still want to play GBC in colour there a program called Goomba which is a GBC emulator I've used an older version and its a bit laggy.

should i get passkey 2 or passcard 3?
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Posted 19 November 2006 - 11:43 PM

passcard 3definitely.
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Posted 20 November 2006 - 07:26 AM

Passcard 3, Here are my reasons why you should get the Passcard 3 Since the Passkey 2 is chunky which makes it impossible to lay the DS on a flat surface.You need to program the the passkey to a specific game card that you have.The passkey also gobbles up more power than the Passcard 3.
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Posted 20 November 2006 - 08:21 PM

Passcard 3, Here are my reasons why you should get the Passcard 3 Since the Passkey 2 is chunky which makes it impossible to lay the DS on a flat surface.You need to program the the passkey to a specific game card that you have.The passkey also gobbles up more power than the Passcard 3.

alright, thx! this js awesome! l think i got everything i neeed! :D
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Posted 22 November 2006 - 04:13 PM

what no. DS firmware wont work, what you would need is a passcard to load up flashme firmware maybe. or u could just use the passcard

What I meant was if i can just download my flashme firmware to my NDS using game manager from the m3 website?

Edited by Irish_Wizard23, 22 November 2006 - 04:27 PM.

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Posted 23 November 2006 - 07:35 AM

Quick question. I am looking into the M3 Perfect Mini-SD & Passcard 3 Bundle and I just wanna know one thing. Is it possible that in the future a rom will be too big to fit on it?? Sorry I am very new...
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Posted 23 November 2006 - 03:51 PM

Quick question. I am looking into the M3 Perfect Mini-SD & Passcard 3 Bundle and I just wanna know one thing. Is it possible that in the future a rom will be too big to fit on it?? Sorry I am very new...

I doubt that a rom will ever be too big to fit on a sd/cf card because I know they have sizes from 256 mB to 16 GB. The average rom is 256 mbit or 512 mbit. The highest is 1024mbit.

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Posted 23 November 2006 - 08:34 PM

what no. DS firmware wont work, what you would need is a passcard to load up flashme firmware maybe. or u could just use the passcard

What I meant was if i can just download my flashme firmware to my NDS using game manager from the m3 website?

ummm, real important question i wanna get a video on an m3 from google video, but u know google video requires that u download google vid player. how do i watch it?
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Posted 24 November 2006 - 04:30 AM

You'll need to convert it to DPG or the M3 video format.If you want to download videos from Google video or youtube etc then go to www.keepvid.comThey might be in .flv format so you need to convert it to avi, before you can convert to DPG or M3 format
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 12:10 AM

You'll need to convert it to DPG or the M3 video format.If you want to download videos from Google video or youtube etc then go to www.keepvid.comThey might be in .flv format so you need to convert it to avi, before you can convert to DPG or M3 format

ok thanx. i got them in mp4 format. does the m3 read that? btw, i think im going to wait and buy a ds lite and get the m3 perfect lite, but im not that sure yet. are there any drawbax on it?
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 05:28 AM

I don't think M3 can read it, also you have to convert it so it meets the DS screen Aspect ratio, You can't really play a video file whose resolution is better than you screen. The DS screen size is like 192 pixels long and an average video file resolution is about 800 pixels in length so you may only be able to watch a quarter of the video screen.
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 10:59 AM

Some games i put on my M3 Lite it jsut turns white when i boot it up
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 12:00 PM

If you just get a white screen try writing the rom in safe mode, if your game manager doesn't have that then try ticking the Force R/W box
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 12:08 PM

Quick question. I am looking into the M3 Perfect Mini-SD & Passcard 3 Bundle and I just wanna know one thing. Is it possible that in the future a rom will be too big to fit on it?? Sorry I am very new...

No. The largest NDS ROM is 1024Mbit, which is 128MB. So once you have a 256MB flash card, you will be able to fit every NDS ROM. Not all at once though, of course. ^^
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 06:39 PM

is the m3 perfect lite better than the m3 perfect mini SD?
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 11:45 PM

is the m3 perfect lite better than the m3 perfect mini SD?

They both function the same. The mini SD version has benefits over the lite. One is Mini SD cards are cheaper then the Micro SD cards that go in the lite. The mini SD version will also fit in the original NDS and Gameboy advance SP/Micro while the lite version will only work in the NDS lite as it won't fit in the other consoles slots. Of course now they recently released a lite adapter that allows the M3 lite to fit into the original NDS or GBA SP/Micro slots and the adapter is only about $4. Had they had the adapter when I bought my M3 I would have gotten the lite instead of the mini SD since the mini SD hangs out of the NDS lite. At the time the adapter didn't exist, so I wanted something to both work with my NDS lite and GBA micro. The only disadvatage that the mini SD has is it hangs out nearly half an inch from the DS lite as any GBA cartridge would. With the exception of the higher price of the micro SD cards, I would say the M3 lite is better now that you can buy an adapter for the GBA and orignal NDS for under $4.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 07:47 AM

is it just me, or does the ffiii opening video lag off an m3 adapter?
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Posted 30 November 2006 - 11:44 AM

That could be normal, depending on what SD card you have may affect the videos played on the M3. Theres was something like this for the Castlevania DoS opening video as well.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 02:47 PM

can i use game manager or another program to put movies and music on my m3? how can i change mpeg4 to avi? is there a sort of program i can use to put dvds on my comp and then on my m3?
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