Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Revolutions On Nintendo Gaming

Nintendo DS Lite Cobalt / BlackBy Mary Solinna

Some people may have no idea that what Nintendo DS (NDS) is? It is a hand held game console. In a simple word, it is a video game player. You can load your games from Nintendo and play on it. Because it is a player, it needs some input. That input comes through memory cards. Here is how the R4 DS card comes into picture.

When the company Nintendo started its own business long before, the input is from a big recording tape or a cassette like hardware that contained thousands of games created by Nintendo. For instance: Super Mario Bros.But now, tiny little memory cards, which can fit into a slot of the gaming console have replaced those cartridge. There are different versions of the gaming console -Nintendo DS and Lite. They both have got new generation slots (SLOT 1) for Nintendo manufactured gaming cards.

Features of a DS game card

* 35.0 mm 33.0 mm 3.8 mm in dimensions

* Small amount of flash memory to store scores

* Memory 64 MB to 8 GB

* Can be read only through ROM of the console

Because the data in a DS card can be read only by the firmware, the card is virtually invalid with any other hardware.

R4 DS cards

SanDisk 8GB SDHC for Nintendo DSiA revolution came in the history of Nintendo gaming console when R4 cards hit the markets. This is a cartridge, not a card, or something like your micro SD card reader in your laptops. This cartridge fits into the SLOT 1 of Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS lite versions and opens up another port to accept a micro SD card into it.
And in this way you can transfer data from your micro SD card to your console through the R4 card

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