Modded DS Adds Hard Drive For Some Reason

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."

Comments

Worst headline ever!

[Sinryc]

This is SLASHDOT! Why does someone need a reason other than "why not" to mod something? I can see plenty of uses for this(Homebrew storage, movies, music, backups of games...).

Re:Worst headline ever!

[kaos.geo]

Yeah, for a moment I thought I missclicked and was reading The Onion. :-)

Paris Hilton + touch screen + mic

[antifoidulus]

=the newest innovation in porn.

Re:Paris Hilton + touch screen + mic

[kfg]

I know where her touch screen has been and I wouldn't do her with somebody else's stylus.

KFG

Besides...

[mangu]

...in those cases when you do need extra flux, a true hacker *makes* his own flux: dissolve rosin in alcohol. But that's only needed where the parts to be soldered are corroded in some way, which is not the case in TFA, soldering recently peeled wire to gold plated pins.

Re:Use flux???!

[MyDixieWrecked]

I've got limited experience with electronics soldering (I took a class in middleschool and I also needed to do some work on my guitar, once), but iirc, not all electronics solder has flux in/on it. personally, I'd prefer the stuff with the flux on it already, since it's less messy.

When it comes to doing soldering involving plumbing (I was a plumbers apprentice in HS), I know most solder is packed with flux, plus we always smeared flux all over the pipe-end beforehand, too, before hitting it with the torch.

perhaps it's his preference to control the amount of flux he uses himself, rather than relying on the manufacturer of the solder to put the right amount in.

Homebrew compatibility

[weg]

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)

Modding a DS: What you see is what you need

[tepples]

They need to get it done with a flash drive.

It's already been done with flash drives. From the image "What you see is what you need", bottom right is a CompactFlash card, and bottom center is a CF to DS SLOT-2 adapter.

Now most PC hard drives communicate with the PC using a wire protocol known as parallel ATA, on which CF is based. One could run a ribbon cable out of the CF adapter, run it through some level shifters (DS is 3.3 V while hard drives are 5.0 V), and run it into the 40-pin data port of a hard drive.

Re:Battery life

[weg]

Unfortunately, DS delivers only 3.3V to GBA slot and so an external 5V power supply is required. I used a 11.1V li-poly battery and a DC-DC converter to bring the voltage down to 5V.

Since he's using an external power supply, I guess that the HD doesn't drain that much from the DS battery..

Re:Use flux???!

[SigILL]

if you can't solder using just the flux that's inside the solder wire, you should do a quick Soldering-101 course before you try hacking something...

Not that I RTFA, but try doing SMT with just the flux in your solder.. not gonna work.

A true hacker is beyond such dogmatic attitudes; (s)he uses the tools needed to get the job done. If flux is what's needed to get a good solder connection, then (s)he'll use flux.

Re:Drunken Sailors need more storage?

[finiteSet]

This would look less lame if you wound define the acronym even once. Dragon Stone? Door Stop? Denver Sexworker? Drastic Step? Dirty Shit? Diligent Securitymodule? Dying Suitor? Dog Spit? Drunken Sailor? Dastardly Scruples? Dead Sloth? Dominant Submissive? Danish Singer? Dual Singleton? DeathSword? Dread Symphony? Dynamite Saw? Diamond Sewer? Deloused Sundancer? Defluxedmagnetonumetric Sensor?

Yep, you guessed right, it's Deloused Sundancer.

I dare you to mod me informative ;)

Re:Use flux???!

[Spankophile]

hey "dude' instead of bitching about someone's choice of solder, try doing something useful. This guy made an IDE mod for DS. He's way 1337er than you. so STFU.

The future for Nintendo DS owners?

[Gnomes of Zurich]

Hi, we're from the [RIAA | MPAA | etc] and we have a court order which allows our expert look at your NintendoDS to see if it contains anything we can sue you for.

O Natrium42, is there anything you can't do?

[Anonymous Coward]

The legendary Natrium42 has been hard at work on making an IDE connection for the DS.

Ahh yes, it always brings a wistful smile to my lips whenever I recall the many legends of Natrium42, taught to me by my forefathers in front of our cooking-fire...

Re:Drunken Sailors need more storage?

[weg]

Yeah.. I totally agree.

It's like this PC thing that everybody seems to be talking about nowadays..
I have no idea what the fuck it means.. Post-Communist? But why would somebody like to have one at home, then? Particle Collider? I've heard the one in Switzerland has a diameter of several miles, but my friend told me he has a PC at home and his flat isn't that large.

I'm confused.. ;-)

Re:DS = Handheld game console

[Just Some Guy]

If you don't know what a DS is, other websites may be more appropriate than Slashdot.