Datel MAX Media Launcher DS Review

[lenselijer]

Does that mean with the v7 flashme, they have solved the problem of keeping a ds cart inserted for suspend/sleep mode?


If so then that is good news.

no, but just turn off your ds when you are not playing, having a cartridge in the ds slot drains alot of battery!

[djkatarat]

The MAX MEDIA Player and Launcher are TWO different products. The Launcher is a PassMe device and think of the Media Player is more of a flash cart, with right now has LIMITED functionality.

Datel's media player will play homebrew images and coincedentally ROMS EVENTUALLY, but this will be reliant on 'third party' software as well as updates from them which we 'hear' will come in a 'couple of weeks'.

I think though the best combination in terms of media/homebrew/images and whatever else you want to throw at it is the M3 Mini and Datel Max Media Launcher.

thanks for ur idea of the best combination...i think i will probably do this.

[muggsy]

to be honest, I believe they are both the same product but with different names, I think they named it media player coz its packaged with the HDD...

I don't understand why they would openly support backup usage on one and not the other.. from what I have read, the 4GB HDD is just a sealed enclosure for a CF or SD card....

I think I will be proved right.. but I'll see tomorrow.. to be honest I already have too many DS games so it won't disappoint me too much if I am wrong

[galaxykidgamma]

isn't there anywhere that carries this and the m3 mini? i know divineo will, and it'll prolly be cheapest there, is their 7 day ship reliable?

[Malboro]

Can someone tell me what is Cheapmod.net and Divineo Network shipping cost from europe? Or other good european website where i can order max media launcer.

[galaxykidgamma]

w00t, just ordered my m3 and datel media launcher from cheapmod, umm lemme see, i think divineo wanted to charge about 16 USD for fedex express (that's all they were offereing) for a similar purcahse...

i paid £7.43 at cheapmod for Airmail Airsure, that's about 12 or 13 USD

hope this helps

-tim

[UFOz2]

no, but just turn off your ds when you are not playing, having a cartridge in the ds slot drains alot of battery!

i got the MML today.. once its launched the user is free to remove the MML off the DS slot and m3 will still work without freezing...

[BigGanja]

Thanks for pointing that out to me Perkele.

I was reading from off this http://ds.gcdev.com/dsfirmware/site

It reads Note: If you still have V4, do not play games that use the Nintendo Wi-fi connection.

I have yet to flash a SINGLE NDS yet lol, from the guidelines i have acquired i believe i have "RETAIL Flash version 4" not FlashmeV4, so although i have been on nintendo WFC, i erased my WFC settings (just to be sure) superpass2 has arrived now but aint got a parallell cable to program the SP2 so i guess im waiting some more lol!

LapTop just broke last week, so now its just a matter of do what i can, when and where i can. But yea im ready now thnx for givin' me that info Perkele.

--EDiT-- Kinda off-topic -
Nintendo DS (FlashMe7 MoDDeD)
MiniSD SuperCard
"Broke ass" miniSD card (only giving me 270mbs outta a gig) Grrr.
Superpass2
A choice of 6 originals to program to it, Programmed with Mario Kart DS (E) tested a .nds file outta the supercard software then proceeded to flashme!

And ..... all is good, flashed 100% im quite happily chucked New Super Mario Bros. onto my MiniSD card, worked first time no problems

Just to clarify YES, once nds is flashed when using a supercard it WILL save straight onto the SD card (after going through the SC software), i tested this without a "REAL" NDS cart in the top, yep it said saved.

Turned power off, launched again, the save was their

Now I wanna play BleachDS and Jump Superstars hahahaha

Capcom needs to bust out some Rival schools for NDS, with wifi play that would be awesome ! and I would buy the original

[jayjames]

i have this max 4gb thing and i had trouble getting it to load mp3 and video files on it, let alone any back ups i have made so i googled it and it ponited me to a review of it on here and it says to play video and mp3 u have to load a homebrew proggy called moonshell that the card comes shipped with. how crap is that! it`ll play homebrew stuff tho.. strange , hope something gets sorted out as £100 is a lot of money for a media player that you have to load another program on to play things!!

[oli84]

Does the Max Media Launcher have problems doing sleep mode?

[UFOz2]

Does the Max Media Launcher have problems doing sleep mode?

stick in a real cart for sleep mode... otherwise the ds will freeze.. so yes.

[oli84]

stick in a real cart for sleep mode... otherwise the ds will freeze.. so yes.

Thanks. Rather not have this, so I will just flashme then have a real cart in to get sleepmode working properly.

[Shpinxis]

I have the MAX Media Player and the 4 GIG Hard Drive. I have to load my movies, pictures, and audio from Moonshell. When i do Movies though I get a lot of lag and that is annoying and weird, it shouldnt do that. Can anyone tell me if this is just mine or this is how it is. I have the Moonshell version that comes with the Hard Drive. Also can someone tell me what type of NDS card is the Hard Drive/Media PLayer becuase i cant get the latest Moonshell to work.

[UFOz2]

I have the MAX Media Player and the 4 GIG Hard Drive. I have to load my movies, pictures, and audio from Moonshell. When i do Movies though I get a lot of lag and that is annoying and weird, it shouldnt do that. Can anyone tell me if this is just mine or this is how it is. I have the Moonshell version that comes with the Hard Drive. Also can someone tell me what type of NDS card is the Hard Drive/Media PLayer becuase i cant get the latest Moonshell to work.

It's pretty much the same shit as the psp microdrive... its slow, its not power efficient and 150$ is a huge ripoff for useless hardware like that... i mean they dont even support playing nds games with first party software... blah.. lol

gibbe me 4Gb SD + MML any day... but not thise huge bulky thing... I don't even want to think what it would look like on my precious DS Lite.

[carlitos2200]

MML and MMP are 2 different products. I have both and used them on my 4GB hdd AND 1GB CFcard. Max Media player works they way they do on hd and CF but when I used Max Media launcher I got the 2-white screens -of -death. The launcher is supposed to work well with GBA flash cards AND the Max Media Docker. But the 4GBhdd is on a Max media Docker! Unless the Max Media Docker has different innards like the MML and MMP do thenMML should work with MMD. I ordered a GBAMP and I hope that I can see for myself. MMP does not read .gba files. MML I am guessing does not read .nds files unless patched with .gba. If anyone has had same problems as I have let me know. Also to note does the micro-drive have any buffer? That could be the main problem with movie lags. I switched to CF for my flicks and games. I thought about reducing the kbps to under 96 for hdd but I like what I have right now. Batchdpg is a great software I found. Picture is superb and a hell whole lot better than the prog that comes with Moonshell.