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That's a scam site. The real CycloDS page is located at http://www.cyclopsds.com/ and they have no 3DS cart. In fact that scam site also has fake Acekard, fake EZFlash, and fake Supercard carts for sale, none of which show up on those companies' actual sites

DS games are sized in megabits, so a 256Mbit cartridge is really 32 megabytes of memory.

Animal Crossing: Wild World is 256 Mbit. Some newer games are 2048 Mbit, such as the Dutch version of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future .

I had a CycloDS for my DS, but your DSi's firmware blocked it from working. This page reminded me to look, and sure enough, I can now buy a nice Acekard 2i for like $15 and/or a Supercrad DStwo for about $35 that does things your console should do natively (such as GBA and SNES emulation), both of which use the same 16 GB Micro SDHC card that my CycloDS uses, all of which will work with my nice Nintendo DSiXL.

Of course, since I own physical copies of all the games I put on my flash cart, it's all ethically sound, if not legally unassailable. Fortunately for me, I am much more concerned with living ethically, if not legally, especially when in regards to stupid, anti-consumer laws like the ones that would outlaw this sort of thing. Although Nintendo might be screwed even in that case, because "Jailbreaking" a mobile device is now legal in the US. Since my DS is a mobile device, and the Acekard / DStwo are methods of "jailbreaking," -- i.e., running unapproved software -- well, seems to me the much loved DMCA that Nintendo would no doubt use to shut these things down in the US... wouldn't actually shut them down.

So thank you, Nintendo. Thank you for reminding me to look for a DSi compatible flash cart, and reminding me I need to do my part to support small development studios like the Supercard and Acekard teams.

I had a CycloDS for my DS, but your DSi's firmware blocked it from working. This page reminded me to look, and sure enough, I can now buy a nice Acekard 2i for like $15 and/or a Supercrad DStwo for about $35 that does things your console should do natively (such as GBA and SNES emulation), both of which use the same 16 GB Micro SDHC card that my CycloDS uses, all of which will work with my nice Nintendo DSiXL.

Of course, since I own physical copies of all the games I put on my flash cart, it's all ethically sound, if not legally unassailable. Fortunately for me, I am much more concerned with living ethically, if not legally, especially when in regards to stupid, anti-consumer laws like the ones that would outlaw this sort of thing. Although Nintendo might be screwed even in that case, because "Jailbreaking" a mobile device is now legal in the US. Since my DS is a mobile device, and the Acekard / DStwo are methods of "jailbreaking," -- i.e., running unapproved software -- well, seems to me the much loved DMCA that Nintendo would no doubt use to shut these things down in the US... wouldn't actually shut them down.

So thank you, Nintendo. Thank you for reminding me to look for a DSi compatible flash cart, and reminding me I need to do my part to support small development studios like the Supercard and Acekard teams.

Why yes, yes you can.

to get that working is almost as cumbersome as old-school PassMe

What the hell are you talking about?

I have had an Acekard 2i for many months now, using the standard AKAIO loader/firmware. I have never hard to do anything else to besides copy the firmware onto the card. Yes, the loader is using a rom-hack to load, and shows up on the DSi menu as a different game, but it works trivially and has never failed to load a game.

List of compatible/incompatible drives: http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Devices_Compatibility_List

Configurable USB Loader ( http://www.gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147638 ) can back up and launch disc images from a usb hard drive or SDHC. You'll need a drive/SD card dedicated to this, though, since it needs to be specially formatted. It can be launched from the homebrew channel, or it can be isntalled as a channel in your system menu.
 
Here's another good place to start reading: http://gwht.wikidot.com/usb-loader. It has links to installation instructions for prerequisites as well. And if you want to read up on the vocabulary, check out the WiiBrew wiki: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page.

I'm surprised I haven't seen RawdSD mentioned for the Wii. RawkSD is a program which will export Rock Band 1, GH1-3 (Not world tour (yet)) songs into RB2 format and they'll be playable from the SD bard like current DLC is.

You can also write your own charts (I can't, I don't have the patience) or get pre-made charts from ScoreHero and use your own music to import. It is Ogg based.

Don't over-glorify emulation on the DS, it's not nearly that good.

Let me make a short list:

The best emulated platform is NES, but the most-compatible emulator (NesDS) has a serious flaw: the touch interface to save games is confusing, and often it loses my save states after I turn the emulator off (and I'm not the only one seeing these problems). About the only thing I play emulated on my DS is NES games that use battery backup, because for some strange reason that isn't broken in NesDS. But the list of games with battery backup on NES is short, and limits what I can play.

The SNES emulator is solid for some games, but nothing, and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING runs full-speed. You mention Chrono Trigger - fully-working, but not full-speed. Another game that runs, but not full-speed is F-Zero. Aside from that, I have a long list of games that have broken rendering issues that make them annoyingly and/or unplayable.

Genesis emulator? Yeah, there is one that actually delivers full-speed (jEnesis), but it only plays mainstream games, and lacks screen scaling (the Genesis has a higher-resolution than the DS, and you have to scroll the screen manually to see everything, which sucks for just about every fast-paced game).

I think I got one game to play correctly on the Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator (Defenders of Oasis), and even that had some graphical glitches.

The problem, as-stated, is that most of the projects are abandoned after they have partial support. This seems to be a problem with most open-source/free programs, especially on minority platforms - the developer gets bored/distracted, and the code gets abandoned. The DSi may be able to throw more processing power and memory at the emulation problem, but no amount of hardware can make up for the eventual disinterest of coders.

Really, the only haven for good emulation is the PC. I'm almost tempted to buy a cheap netbook to feed my emulation hunger, because I know every single emulated platform from the 1990s would work well.

Or what about "Let's play Mums".

Seriously, the number of crap "games" for the Nintendo DS is astounding... whatever happened to the Nintendo Seal of Quality.

OTOH, I do have a CycloDS. That combined with Visual C++ Express and GCC toolchain has been a godsend for me to play (yes, programming games is like playing for me). Right now I am doing a port of the dual n-task game.

There is one very simple reason to get a flash cart. After you have more than 10 games it becomes unpractical to take all of them wherever you go. Instead, you just upload them to your flash memory and now you have all your games in there.

Actually you can play Wii games off of burned discs with Homebrew. See here

Actually the storage limit isn't 2GB; the issue has to deal with SDHC compatibility. I wrote a little bit about using a 4gb card on GBA Temp; http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=99545 Link to the spreadsheet; http://fathertom.net/wii/4gbsd.xls

I know of at least a couple that were released before.

If you're interested in homebrew, these sites may interest you:

http://www.gbatemp.net/
http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/Category:Emulators_on_DS
http://www.scdev.org/forum/

I'm very supprised no one has mentioned the m3simply yet. I got mine a few weeks back and it's been awesome. It plays clean NDS roms (unmodified exact copies), runs homebrew, and plays music and movies (needs transcoding) right out of the box. It takes microSD cards and comes with a microSD-usb reader/writer. You can find the microSD chips and the m3simply's online for about the price of two NDS games - not bad. You can then download all 872 games (and counting). The best part is you can play all the wifi games over the internet and locally. You can also check out the compatibility list and this comparison chart.

Happy homebrewing :)

Another disadvantage of the M3 simply, and many (all?) slot one cards is that download play (when you play locally against someone who doesn't have the game) does not work for many Nintendo games, including Mario Kart. There is a comparison guide for slot 1 cards here but you may have to register (free) to access it... http://gbatemp.net/index.php?dynamic=39

I do believe we are in luck. "Supercard on Lite?"

Very nice indeed.

"People weren't big on emulators for XBox"

Really? Well someone should let the guys at Xport know they are wasting their time. Sure you can play on the PC, but the PC doesn't have consistent controller support across emulators and many emulators feature interfaces that aren't easy to use when displayed on a TV screen. Xbox emulation is much more useful for classic multiplayer sitting in the living room console playing.

"There is not great way to do emulation-on-the-go right now"

Gee, besides the GP32, you have solid emulation on the Palm and PocketPC devices. The Tapwave Zodiac has a great form factor for classic gaming.
Another great option for mobile emulation is to get a Super Card for the Gameboy Advance, SP or DS. It uses standard compact flash cards and plays GB, NES, PC Engine and Game Gear/Sega Master System games.
The PSP has the potential to become the greatest mobile emulation platform but we are still a long way from that point it seems.