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The Nintendo DS gaming consoles are not sold with any rewritable storage medium. This raises the need of third-party DS storage devices to store downloaded, homebrew, commercial and under development games, video, music and other contents. There are three types of DS storage devices available in the market: First Generation running on SLOT-2, Second Generation for SLOT-1, and Third Generation is newly launched. In this article, we will only cover first two generations of DS storage devices to increase your knowledge.

First Generation of DS Storage

GBA Flash Catridges: The homebrew applications were stored on firstly Game Boy Advance flash Cartridges. They have 32 MiB rewritable flash-memory block directly accessible by Nintendo DS and CPU. However, the storage capacity limitation, low variety and high price made did not make them ideal for users. GBA Movie Player (GBAMP): is CompactFlash adapter for Game Boy Advance. It is compatible with playing Game Boy games, NES, movies, and music under 200kb. It also supports GBA games under 256kb and reading text files. The low price and standard feature set makes GBAMP ideal for homebrew.

M3 Perfect and SuperCard: are quite similar to that of GBA Movie Player, but boast more features. Both of these cards include miniSD, Transflash, Secure Digital or CompactFlash slot along with inbuilt 32MB RAM. Their other editions were also launched? M3 Pro and SuperCard Rumble.