Just got my new R4 3DS RTS Card, lets see what it does.
Well, as expected, I received my R4 3DS RTS Card that I ordered last week from the official store. I have been using an R4i Gold for the last year and a half, and before that was using the original R4 DS on my Nintendo DS lite system (I never went and got a DSi console... I like my GBA games way too much to give them up!)
So far, I like what I have seen. This card seems to be a whole lot better than my R4i Gold (which will go to my little brother who has been wanting his own for quite some time). The menu systems, as I suspected, were very similar. They're not the exact same, but then they are 2 different cards. But the main functions and use of the cards are pretty much identical.
What is NOT identical is that this new card, has 2 different chips in it. One for the main files you are using at the time that it loads and updates from the micro SD card you need to use this card. And also, the fact that it has a real time save feature built in. This takes me back to the days of the Game Genie for my Super NES console. The game genie had cheat codes (so does this card by the way) and it also had a little function built in that let you actually hit the button on the game genie, and it would bring up a save menu. What this let you do was quickly save your game, in whatever place you were. So that the next time you loaded up the game, you could actually start off from the exact same place, at the exact same moment you had been in the game, prior to hitting the game genie save button.
I remember using this a lot to beat games like Mario Bros, and Mario World and Contra, to name just a few of the awesome games. Being able to keep taking a whack at the end boss was always super fun. Still hard as all hell to beat, but at least I had a bit of an edge with the real time save.
The first thing I am going to do is pre-load this sucker with some of the cool emulators that are available for the 3DS XL. I'll be trying nesDS, SnesDS, and my favorite emulator of them all (well, my favorite game system, haven't tried the emulator yet :) ) which is NeoGeoDS. I'm looking forward to some really great classic gaming for the next week or so, while I get to know my new RTS card even better.
If any of you are interested, I'll be updating my blog with details on how to use the emulators with some step by step setup instructions for all of you out there that don't know exactly how to download or use them on the R4 cards.