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[RPG Hacker]

I need infomartions for MAX Media Launcher. I heard it's something like PassKey DS. Can you use MML to load NDS Roms from the GBA Slot? And can you use the GBA Movie Player? Can anyone help?



English Description:
Hardcore gamers the world over invested in Flash Carts for their GBA handhelds, running home brew games or programs shared among users or downloaded from the internet. With a Flash Cart and an emulator, for example, you could play games for older machines such as the Mega Drive/Genesis or the Sinclair ZX Spectrum on your handheld. It was your ticket to a whole new world of home brew software and emulation gaming. Then came the Nintendo DS. It’s fully backwards-compatible with the GBA, but you could only use a Flash Cart in GBA mode. There was no easy way of accessing DS programs on your Flash Cart. Until now…

MAX Media Launcher for the Nintendo DS and DS Lite is the perfect solution for accessing DS media from any GBA flash storage device. Simply snap in the Max Media Launcher cartridge, and that's it! Media, freeware, executables and other files stored on your flash card can be launched. The Flash Cart revolutionised the GBA home brew scene, and with MAX Media Launcher, it will do for the DS too.

MAX Media Launcher is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3 and NEO.

Features:
# Access media from any GBA flash storage device
# Use home brew GBA software on your DS
# Plug-and-play ease of use
# Compatible with most types of flash card

Edit: Oh, and can you say, if EZPass 1 is compatible with the GBA Movie Player? Thanks!

Edited by RPG Hacker, 19 July 2006 - 12:42 PM.

[Lazlo Falconi]

The MAX Media Launcher is designed specifically to do this, costs £12.99 [Approx. 24USD], and allows you to store homebrew data on a variety of compatible flash cards including M3 and NEO types.

The more expensive MAX Media Player, priced £129.99[approx. 240USD], goes further. It supports homebrew, but really as a footnote to extensive media playback - as well as viewing JPEGs through a built-in browser application, it will play back MP3 audio and even movies.

Both are due out in late April, available through retail and Codejunkies.com, and Datel says both are compatible with the new DS Lite as well as the old one.
Zoom in'Datel brings homebrew to DS' Screenshot 1

Fits like a clamp!

MAX Media Player is a two-part peripheral - the player itself is a simple DS game card that goes in the DS game slot, allowing you to browse a 4GB hard disk that slots into the GBA cartridge slot and hugs the back of the unit as you can see in the photo. The hard disk will draw power directly from the DS.

MAX Media Player also includes a USB 2.0 cable allowing you to transfer data from your PC, as well as a Media Manager PC application for handling these transfers; Media Manager will also convert movies to a format the Player can understand and resize images to fit the DS screen.

Meanwhile, Datel's also got a third peripheral on the way. Called Communicator Headset, it effectively harnesses the microphone and speakers in a headset format, which Datel reckons will be more appropriate for comms in games like Metroid Prime: Hunters, which allows you to chat with other players in the game lobby. Communicator Headset will retail for £9.99.

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[RPG Hacker]

I heard that MML only supports a few video types, not even .avi. And I heard that the Power of the DS runs out very fast with the MML. I'll better get MK4 because I want to run commercial ROMS!

[Lazlo Falconi]

You can do that with any flashcart, all you need is the proper software. Hell, if you really know what you're doing, you can play ROMs without a flashcart at all.

Edited by Uncle Lazlo, 24 July 2006 - 03:34 PM.

[RPG Hacker]

I heard about a new backup device, especialy made for NDS, called Ultra FlashPass (www.ndsgba.net). That is the first one, right? I never heard of one before. I wonder if this is a good one? I think "Ultra" is not very popular, they are onyl supported by one little shop.

[pickice]

Hi,
Anyone know a good=price uk trader ?

EDIT ....Not to worry ...Used Google ... Dooooh !
Regards

Edited by pickice, 27 July 2006 - 04:35 PM.

[Bombercules]

The headset is already out. It doesn't work very well, and the part you speak into isn't close enough to a normal-sized person's mouth, and it isn't adjustable like an Xbox headset. The microphone then isn't sensitive enough, so you would have to take the headset off and move it to your mouth for it to pick up anything.

[RPG Hacker]

I was never talkin about a headset or something like that. I talked about a NDS Backup device!!!!!

[pickice]

I have since purchased a MAX Media Launcher....All it does is it 'boots or makes the supercards accessible to run programs which are stored on the SD or CF card inserted into the Supercard' ........ WITHOUT having to Flash one's DS


So to Answer .....

I need infomartions for MAX Media Launcher. I heard it's something like PassKey DS. Can you use MML to load NDS Roms from the GBA Slot? ......... YES assuming you have a supercard in the GBA slot with a SD or CF media card with appropriate games on it for GBA or NDS


And can you use the GBA Movie Player? ...that I don't know , I use Moonshell which plays movies,mp3,view jpg etc.

Hope this is clearer than MUD

Regards

Edited by pickice, 02 August 2006 - 10:43 AM.

[RPG Hacker]

Yeah, thanks. I've already decided. I'll get the Neo Flash Kit with MK4. That should be the best!

[Cucucachoo]

The Max Media Player with 4 Gig HDD is really the best no-haggle option, buy this one pack for roughly $150 (as I did) and you can do many cool things with it.

I have gotten these emulators to work on my DS with it:

Gameboy Color
Sega Master System
NES

Plus, the most exciting part is that there's a wonderful program called Maximum Overload or Max Overload for short that will allow you to utilize the HDD's USB drag and drop interface to run commercial roms!!!

Of course you may only download those commercial roms which you already own.

BTW .GBA is NOT a supported file extension.....that's the only drawback.

[RPG Hacker]

I read the Review about that thing, it said, the power runs out to fast. And about the NES and GBC games, you can play them with a normal flash card if you have goomba or pocketnes. But did you try SNES-Roms? Did they work? That's the only reason I need a PassKey for! Oh, and commercial ROMS of course!

[Tyro Heartnote]

Hey can anyone tell me how to run an movie on this thing?

[RPG Hacker]

NO, and never spam in my topics again!