We apologise and appreciate your patience regarding the recent times where we’ve had payment processing issues with Visa and Mastercard on DSCardWorld. We’re now writing to let you know that the majority of these problems are behind us as we reintroduce Visa processing today on the site.
Our main problem was that AlertPay’s business suffered catastrophic problems since late last year about processing credit card payments throughout their entire user base (not just us but for everyone!) and it has taken us quite a while to get a new permanent solution in place. With the unreliability and security issues of third party processors like PayPal we wanted to ensure there was a viable long-term solution with a proper bank – and for that reason it’s taken a while but hopefully it will be worth it!
For now, we are only accepting Visa payments but Mastercard will be rolled out at a later date. People who are members of our newsletter will also have a discount code given to them shortly as our way of saying thanks for your continued patience.
Many thanks and we hope to see you with us again soon – thank you once again for your support!
I bet your grandmother isn’t as cool as this. Kathleen Connell, called Kit by her friends, just celebrated her 100th birthday. Well, congratulations on that. Instead of getting some angry, thredbare cat as a companion, she keeps he trusty red DS Lite by her side. She is tapping away on her DS all…day…long. She owns a stack of games as evidenced in the video below. Most of them are educational, puzzle, and brain oriented. She credits her memory and sharp mind to the exercise she gets for gaming.
There isn’t enough coverage of older generations taking to new technology and enjoying the hell out of it. We’re glad that she’s taking joy in her games. She even goes so far as to say that schools should employ DS’s with educational games in maths and verbal skills. Improved quality of life through gaming? Call us supporters.
The latest roll-out of 3DS firmware updates has just hit us. A few cards still have yet to fix it, but we do have a confirmed list of cards. Essentially, anything that supported 3DS v3.0.0.5 will work with no problems. As always, do not update your 3DS, or keep the wifi switch turned off, until your card is updated first. The only exception is the M3i Zero which does not depend on your 3DS model. Yes, the M3 Team has gone back to using the F_Core.dat usb cable method again, we’re definitely happy about that.
The following cards are confirmed to work on the new 3DS firmware.
Sad news for iEdge fans. The manufacturer ceased production of the iEdge card some time in September and refused any requests from distributors for new stock. No official word has been declared on their website, but our supplier has confirmed that no more were being produced.
Kindly note that the last DSi version that the iEdge is compatible with is Dsi v1.4.2. Current owners will want to keep the DSi at that version or risk losing compatibility for good. DS Lite owners are not affected.
We regret this development and feel like the iEdge had a lot of life left in it, with a good loyal following, but it is currently out of our hands.
For all current cards on the market, many will load on the new 3DS console, but will only support play of backed up NDS/DSi games. Up to now, 3DS support was expected eventually, but no concrete evidence of progress has been reported. That changed earlier this week as a new development team announced that they had successfully gotten a card to run a 3ds backup game Splinter Cell for 3DS. They call it the Crown3DS You can view the video below. So far, that is the only game that they have shown running, we have no doubt that they are working on other games.
Bear in mind, that this is a new developer of unknown cast, and we have no idea how well their card runs, or when it will be considered ready for prime-time so to speak. They still have some work to do to prove themselves top level developers, but we are still impressed with this new Crown3DS. We will of course keep abreast of the situation and let you know if we can consider carrying this new card. Judging from the video they still have a little bit ways to go from this Alpha state. For now you can check out their website http://www.crown3ds.com . This is exciting news as this is the first time we have seen any development work come close to the same support for NDS games as for the 3DS.
The biggest news in Nintendo Handheld is without a doubt the large, pre-mature price drop of the 3DS. The reasons and speculations surrounding the fate of the Nintendo 3DS are explored elsewhere. We’re here to discuss the placation gifts Nintendo has created for those of us who purchased the 3DS at “full price.” Now, we have to hand it to Nintendo having prepared this for early adopters rather then simply doing it and expecting us to be happy about it. I think it would have been handled far more clumsy by any other company.
What Nintendo has prepared for us, is a total of 20 free games from their Classic lineup. Some of these games aren’t even available yet on the eShop for regular purchase. Available now for those who registered their 3DS consoles before the cut off date are SNES games listed below.
Super Mario Bros.
Donkey Kong Jr
The Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Zelda II: The Adventures of Link
Balloon Fight
Ice Climber
Wrecking Crew
Yoshi
NES Open Tournament Golf
Ten other Game Boy Advance games yet ot be announced will follow. Users of the Supercard DSTWO which we now carry can play these and many other games form the NES and SNES game libraries with built in emulation. Those who qualify for the Ambassador Program should check out their eShop under Downloads to access their games. Nintendo handled it as if you had bought them already and are just re-downloading them.
If you own an EZFlash Vi, then there is now a fix out for the DSi v1.4.3 firmware update. As usual it is a .nds fix file loaded from the games menu, so hopefully you haven’t update your DSi yet, or you have access to an alternative DS console. There was some drama as the fix was initially posted as v106, but then it was pulled soon after citing stability issues. The fix is NOW reposted as v106a and is live and ready to download here . With this fix also, the game icon of the EZFlash Vi will change from Tak and the Great Juju Challenge to Guilty Gear DS.
Please follow these instructions to update your EZflash Vi for DSi v1.4.3. Download the .nds fix file contained in our latest software package. Copy the file to your micro sd card root alongside your game files. Boot your EZFlash Vi in a non DSi v1.4.3 console, essentially anything that is not blocking the EZFlash from booting. You should see the .nds update file on your games list, select it and follow the on screen instructions.
We have a video walking you through the process shown here.
If you’ve been a DSi card owner for long enough, you’ll probably have noticed that when the DSi v1.4.3 update rolled out, it took many manufacturers far longer then usual to get a fix out for their cards. We don’t have an explanation for that, but if you own an M3i Zero, the wait is over! You can download the latest fix from our website’s download page, bundled with the M3i Zero software. We recommend that you get it from us as to find it through the official manufacturer’s website http://www.m3adapter.com they’ll run you around at least two other websites before you find a long confusing list of files. The fix is a .nds file type, so if your DSi is already updated, find a friend with an older firmware version DSi, DS Lite, or 3DS to apply the update from the games menu.
Once you have the proper fix file downloaded, unzip the package and copy paste the file onto your micro sd with all of your game files. Once you boot up the M3i Zero, you can find the fix file in the main list. Make sure your battery is high! You wouldn’t want it to die while trying to flash your M3i Zero. Check out the video below for more detailed instructions.
After a bit of a wait, the update for R4i 3DS is now out for new Nintendo DSi firmware version 1.4.3, which can be updated via the Nintendo DSi System Update menu (don’t do this if you’re not 100% sure your card will work with the updated firmware!). This is a new method the R4i SDHC team is adopting where there is no longer a firmware update file. Instead, new updates are applied wirelessly through their already established wifi content delivery system. Please see the exclusive DSCardWorld video below for step by step instructions and details.
While many other firmware updates received fixes fairly quickly, but it feels like we’ve been waiting forever for v1.4.3 fixes to come out. The Acekard 2i while not the first is still well ahead of many others. That fix is now available and applied to all of our Acekard 2i’s in stock. This means that the Acekard 2i is fully functional on all DS models and versions once again. If you are just finding out about these updates, once again, we can only guarantee our cards for the current listed firmware compatibilities. Please do not ever update your console until you can confirm that there is a fix released for your card. In nearly all cases, the card must be updated before the console.
You can download the new software package with the .nds fix file here.
