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Modded DS Adds Hard Drive For Some Reason

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The legendary Natrium42 has been hard at work on making an IDE connection for the DS. He now has a working 40GB hard drive ready for his DS to utilize, now he says perhaps he could listen to music or watch full length rips of his DVDs."

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  1. Homebrew compatibility by weg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmm, I guess since this is using the exact pin-layout of a CF flash card this implies high compatibility (i.e., will work with GBAMP NDS Firmware Hack and the GBAMP FAT driver. I was wondering which DS flash card to buy, and I was eying the M3 lite for DS, but given all the compatibility problems, I'm leaning towards a CF solution, now, even though this sticks out of my Nintendo DS lite as much as a mile..
    Or can anybody recommend something else that's compatible with homebrew (M3 CF (or SD) lite, or one of the Supercards)

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    Georg
  2. Re:Paris Hilton + touch screen + mic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, there's something close to that here: http://cybereality.com/ Download and try ticklegirl if you have the DS homebrew hardware.

  3. Re:Use flux???! by Dan+East · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who needs flux for SMT? Just use a toaster oven.

    Dan East

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    Better known as 318230.
  4. For the truely demented by Tycho · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A similar 4GB Hard Drive that sticks on the underside of a Sony PSP is available. It has a CF connector inside of it too. I'm not sure what the maximum limit for the size of a Memory Stick is. However, I'm sure many people would like to know. At any rate, there are 60GB 1.8" hard drives which when coupled with the adaptor would make for a somewhat portable PSP or Nintendo DS.

    I suppose one could, with a IDE to SATA bridge board and a few other parts, add an eSATA port to a PSP or a Nintendo DS. I suppose then, with a four drive eSATA rack, one could add up to 2TB of storage. Why 2TB? because 2TB is the largest size that FAT32 can be formatted. I'm not sure at all what one would do with a 2TB Nintendo DS, but that shouldn't stop anybody. Perhaps one could run a large database off of a Nintendo DS. Speed and stability would be a problem though.

    I wonder though, does either the Sony PSP or the Nintendo DS have a Memory Management Unit (MMU) with their processor? If they do not, it would be impossible to use a swap file. Then again, Motorola made a separate MMU, the 68851, for processors about 15 years ago. I suppose one could try to add an MMU to a PSP or NDS too, but that would be really demented.

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    Impersonating Tycho from Penny Arcade since before there was a PA.