Differences between M3 & G6?

[Kalonjii]

Hi! I'm new on this board and I'm learning about the G6 & M3 right now since i'm planning to buy one of them and a Nintendo DS.

Anyway, I hope this is the right place to post this thread.

This is what I found out about when I compared the G6 with the M3:

See Attachment Below

So to me it seems like the G6 is infact better than the M3, or am I wrong? i'm gonna buy one of them so please help me out here! ???

Thanks in advance for answers!
/J

[dreary79]

I think your wrong. I'm not saying it that way to be rude, you said you wanted people to tell you if you were wrong.

You took all the advatages of the G6 and never mentioned any of the M3. The main advantage of the M3 is the fact that you can buy a 1Gigabyte flash (SD or CF) card and have twice as much memory as your more expensive G6 4Gigabit. 1 Gigabit is equal to 128Megabytes so a 4Gigabit G6 would give you 512Megabytes compared to the M3 at one full Gigabyte or 8Gigabit.

By the way, you can almost always get a 1Gigabyte flash card from newegg for under $50, sometimes as low as $35.

I have a 2Gigabyte CF card and I'm just waiting for the M3 to arrive.

[Kalonjii]

I think your wrong. I'm not saying it that way to be rude, you said you wanted people to tell you if you were wrong.

You took all the advatages of the G6 and never mentioned any of the M3. The main advantage of the M3 is the fact that you can buy a 1Gigabyte flash (SD or CF) card and have twice as much memory as your more expensive G6 4Gigabit. 1 Gigabit is equal to 128Megabytes so a 4Gigabit G6 would give you 512Megabytes compared to the M3 at one full Gigabyte or 8Gigabit.

By the way, you can almost always get a 1Gigabyte flash card from newegg for under $50, sometimes as low as $35.

I have a 2Gigabyte CF card and I'm just waiting for the M3 to arrive.

Hi and thanks for the reply!

I just found out about everything you said, from the begining I thought that GB and Gb was the same thing, thats the reason why I thought the G6 was way better than the M3.

But now after reading and discussing on other forums aswell i'm sure I want the M3 with a 4 GB CF-card!

Do you have any good sites to recomend where I can find cheap CF-cards? and does the brand matter? which one is the best?

Thanks in advance for answers!
/J

[dreary79]

4GB CF card is going to cost you a lot... =( are you sure that you wouldn't be happy with a 1GB card or a 2GB card; or a couple cards. The thing is, 4GB CF cards are still a little new, once larger cards become more common the prices of 4GB cards will come down and you can get your larger card later on. I spend $80 on a 256MB card a couple years back and prices have come down a ton.

One last thing.... I don't know what file system the M3 uses. If it uses fat32 your ok, but if it uses fat16 the largest flash card you could get is 2GB. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Newegg.com
Zipzoomfly.com
Chiefvalue.com

[Social-Zero]

it uses fat16

[Kalonjii]

4GB CF card is going to cost you a lot... =( are you sure that you wouldn't be happy with a 1GB card or a 2GB card; or a couple cards. The thing is, 4GB CF cards are still a little new, once larger cards become more common the prices of 4GB cards will come down and you can get your larger card later on. I spend $80 on a 256MB card a couple years back and prices have come down a ton.

One last thing.... I don't know what file system the M3 uses. If it uses fat32 your ok, but if it uses fat16 the largest flash card you could get is 2GB. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Newegg.com
Zipzoomfly.com
Chiefvalue.com

I think the M3 uses FAT16, so i'm gonna go with a 2GB CF-card instead! that will work right? or is the 2GB CF-card to big for FAT16 aswell?

I found a 2GB CF-card (Kingston Compact Flash 2GB Elite Pro) for 136,84$, is that a good price? does the brand for the CF-card matter? I also saw that there are different types of CF-cards (Type I & Type II) :confused:

Kingston Compact Flash 2GB Elite Pro:

[Kalonjii]

it uses fat16

Yeah that's what I thought, so does that mean that the biggest CF-card that the M3 can hold is 2GB?

[chocomarker1]

well i guess it'd be enough to store all commercially released games for nds on it!

[Kalonjii]

well i guess it'd be enough to store all commercially released games for nds on it!

Yeah prolly, but I want to be able to have some movies & mp3's aswell :)

[dreary79]

The CF card you show above is the same one I have, it worked fine with the Movie Player V2. As for enough memory... unless you want to have the complete collection of GBA and NDS games, I don't think you'll have a problem putting a ton on and still have room for a movie or a couple anime episodes. If 2GB doesn't work out you could always buy a second one.

[Kalonjii]

The CF card you show above is the same one I have, it worked fine with the Movie Player V2. As for enough memory... unless you want to have the complete collection of GBA and NDS games, I don't think you'll have a problem putting a ton on and still have room for a movie or a couple anime episodes. If 2GB doesn't work out you could always buy a second one.

Good to hear, but what about the Type I & Type II? What's the difference between those two types? from what I understand the card that you have (the one that i'm gonna buy) is a Type I?

Yeah your right, 2GB is prolly enough, I just want all the NDS-Roms and a few movies. :)

[dreary79]

Type II are thicker... (I = 3.3mm) and (II = 5mm). Because of the size of the M3, my guess is, the type II would not fit. It is the same technology its just type II was made bigger. A type II will always say that it is type II from what I've seen, most cards are type I.

[Kalonjii]

Type II are thicker... (I = 3.3mm) and (II = 5mm). Because of the size of the M3, my guess is, the type II would not fit. It is the same technology its just type II was made bigger. A type II will always say that it is type II from what I've seen, most cards are type I.

Ah thanks for clearing that up! I've got about every question that I had answered now, except one and that is how i'm gonna afford all of this, lol:

1 Nintendo DS = 168.26$

1 Kingston Compact Flash 2GB Elite Pro = 135.79$

1 M3 Adapter CF version inc. NDS PassKey = 89.95$

All togheter = 395.00$

:D :p

[unpainted]

the M3 Adapter CF version inc. NDS PassKey where did u guys ordered it on the US, i have 2 of 3 need M3 any advice

thx

[dreary79]

http://www.divineo.cn/cgi-bin/div-cn/ds-m3cf

http://www.kicktrading.ca/index.php?cPath=27

[burbruee]

I'm thinking of buying Movie Player ( costs about $19. )
I don't have the Passkey, it's only required to be able to play NDS dumps right?
I can still load homebrew, gb, gba, ( nes? ) to it?

EDIT: M3? On their official website ( movieadvance.com ) they say there are only two versions?
EDIT AGAIN: I now understand that they are two different products and that the MP2 can play only .nes and .gb roms.