Magic Key 3

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Magic Key 3

Copies roms of a generic flash card to the Magic Key 3 itself. Is so far the only DS flash kit that runs roms from the DS port directly.

Does not have the functionality of PassMe2.

From the makers of NeoFlash.

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Information

The Magic Key 3, as of menu version v0.6b1, and in conjunction with FlashMe v7, can now start directly from the DS slot without use of a GBA Flash Card.

Current menu version as of April 19, 2006 : v0.6b3

Link for latest menu version : http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,2119.0.html

Features

Feature list from official site:

  1. Boot from ANY Flash cart.
  2. Included 8Kb high-speed inner cache, can use command to read/write it.
  3. Included 2M SRAM for NDS game save ( 100% hardware save, support EEPROM and Serial Flash directly ), and can compress the game save then backup to 16M menu flash later ( SMS function ).
  4. Included 16M Menu Flash, can store the MK2 / MK3 boot menu program, and can backup / restore the NDS SMS file
  5. Support SD and MMC card directly, maximum memory size up to 16Gb ~ 32Gb.
  6. Included Li-Ion battery, lifetime over 5 years, can keep the game save data around 3~7 days, for temporary using only, must backup the save data to menu flash later for a long time safe backup.
  7. Battery voltage display, can show NDS working voltage and MK2 / MK3 Li-Ion battery voltage.
  8. Support software reset, it'll help to make the multi-files loader.
  9. Support memory bank swap, very easy to use offset to swap the memory bank.
  10. Support power saving mode, some hardware module can enter sleeping mode when it don't run, and can use command to call them wake up.
  11. MK3 only: Included 256M / 512M Game Flash, for run PD rom and APP rom through MK2/MK3 and not need SD/MMC support.
  12. MK3 only: Included 64M / 128M Zip RAM, for decompress the data and run directly, also can use for a huge size high-speed working buffer, for example the Linux / EMU / PDA ...

Note: MK2/MK3 don't support iQue and new color NDS, it's for original version NDS only, and you need to use ANY GBA flash cart to boot it from GBA port)

See Also

MagicKey, Magic Key 2, NeoFlash

Links

Official new User's Guide