Unable to run?

[Old Man]

> On Sep 3, 2019, at 20:53, Bastiaan van den Berg <buzztiaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:32 PM Merith TK <merith.tk at gmail.com <mailto:merith.tk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Well the DSi has about 4x more ram than a DSlite/Ds
> 
> -afaik- none of that is usable when you execute .nds roms 
> -- 
> dslinux-devel mailing list
> dslinux-devel at dslinux.in-berlin.de
> https://mailman.dslinux.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/dslinux-devel-dslinux.in-berlin.de

Correct. The ideal situation for DSLinux on a DSi would be to have a flashcard that runs in DSi mode (most run in DS mode), and can execute DSi ROMs (don’t know how DSi/Hybrid roms work). There weren’t a lot of DSi only games(1?), and a handful of hybrid games that had extra features on DSi. Thus, many DSi flashcards simply worked on a DSi, yet only yielded DS mode ROM execution.

If DSLinux was then re-compiled as a DSi ROM and executed on such a capable flashcard, all of the hardware (memory, camera, improved wireless, etc.) would be accessible.

Since the DSi doesn’t have a GBA slot, the traditional solutions for extra RAM (slot-2 devices) won’t work, and you would be limited to the small amount (4mb IIRC) of RAM that DS-mode ROMs have access to without the expansion devices.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.dslinux.in-berlin.de/pipermail/dslinux-devel-dslinux.in-berlin.de/attachments/20190907/d67e321b/attachment.html>