We list top popular Nintendo DS flashcards for you to choose from. We wish this guide may help you to find your favourite card and enjoy DS games with ease.

 1. R4 DS Revolution

 Official Site: R4 DS

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Introduction

One of the most popular Nintendo DS flashcard worldwide, revolutionary pioneer of slot-1 solution on homebrew, game backups, music and video play.

Official Features

- 2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)
- Flush fitting slot 1 card
- Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32
- Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game
- Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS
- Built in NoPass
- Automatically detect save type
- Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip
- Supports Moonshell and other homebrew. Open I/O interface
- User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation
- Supports rumble pak and memory pak
- Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
- Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface
- Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically
- Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment (DS Lite only)
- Supports the Soft Reset.
- Supports Action Replay cheat
- Moonshell 1.6 support Software Reset function (Press START key back to the R4 menu)
- DLDI auto-patching
- Full download play support

Packaging

- White R4 Card
- Micro SD USB Card Reader
- R4 Card Plastic Shell

Installation

Format the card then simply drag-and-drop firmware flies on Installation Disc into the SD card.

GUI

The main menu contains 3 options: Game, Multimedia and Boot Slot-2.

Game - the DS game which is draged into the card will be listed on the screen, choose one and press A button to launch it. For the first time running a game the system will automaticlly create a savedata file which is used in game. Press R button to activate the soft-rest function (press Y+X+A+B+L+R botton simultaneously to restart the game). R4 also support the Action Replay cheat Code, press Y botton to enter the cheat menu if there’s cheat code for the certain game.
Multimedia - it offers a popular homebrew multimedia playback called Moonshell, which allows to watch videos, listen to music, etc.
Boot Slot-2 - it provides an option to boot slot 2 cards from the R4 interface, simple PassMe feature.

Performance

R4 does 100% ROMs compatibility and works perfectly with almost DS games at full speed, it also one of the biggest platform for homebrews. DLDI auto-patching and download play are supported in the latest version kernel.

Summary

For its full compatibility, friendly interface, multi expanded fuctions, long battery life and fairly cheap price.  We would highly recommend the R4 as the slot 1 device of choice.

Score - 9.5/10

 2. M3 DS Real

 Official Site: M3 DS

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Introduction

M3 DS Real is subsequent product with built-in memory design and SDHC support of G6 flashcard which is also developed by M3 team and gained highly reputation among users.

Official Features

- 100% Game compatibility, supports clean ROM’s
- Extreme simple to use: just drag and drop files to the M3 Cart. Standard FAT system
- Supports the Micro SDHC specification, allowing for high capacity memory cards 4GB, 8GB
- Fully AR Cheat Code compatible engine
- Software reset function
- Automatically detect game save type
- Excellent homebrew support, DLDI auto-patcher
- Upgradeable system. No size limitation of Flash rom
- Robust & skinnable GUI
- Built in PassMe
- Support directly booting games or applications
- Supports Slot-2 expansions card
- Includes a fully touch screen & button control operating system /GUI Menu
- NDS-GBA Linkage works fine
- Build in Media-Ex application + Moonshell media player
- Built in PDA
- Supports Multi-Language
- Supports DS sleep mode
- Brightness adjustment within GUI

Packaging

- M3 DS Real Card
- Micro SD USB Card Reader
- Rumble Pack
- Rumble RAM Pack (in Rumble RAM Pack only)
- GBA Expansion Pack (in GBA Expansion Pack only)
- User’s Book

Installation

The same as many slot 1 flashcards, move the setup folder and files directly into the card.

GUI

Multi functions are the highlight of M3 Real, so there’re 7 icons on the GUI: Game, My Cards, Boot, Multimedia, PDA, Config and GBA. Stylus control is available.

Game - Choose the game and press A button to enter the detail setting. M3 offers cheat code, soft reset and slow mode setting (to slow down the game speed). Here’s two set of soft reset combination to choose from. Press START button to launch the game when setting is finished.
My Cards - it’s a short cut to launch homebrew and games.
Boot - it’s offers whether to boot from Slot 2 for DS or GBA game.
Multimedia - Movie in .DSM format and MP3 can be played with GBalpha’s media player, e-book and picture view function are also available.
PDA - The innovative part of M3, many of personal setting can be found like Phone Book, Handwriting, Notepad, Dictionary etc. There’ll be more additional function in the furture.
Config - Some regular settings.
GBA - For boot GBA game.

Performance

Perfect compatibility as forcasting, all games and homebrew run well without lag or freeze.

Summary

It’s really bring us some new elements we never have. With all basic which a flashcard should have, there’re more additional functions make users to believe it potential superstar with multimedia and even PDA. For the price, it’s reasonable to spend on, no regret for a fashionable product.

Score - 9/10

 Official Site: EZ Flash

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Introduction

EZ Flash V is one of classic slot 1 flashcard by EZ Team, with the new function of addition support of SDHC standard.

Official Features

- NOPASS technology, no need to modify DS console, keeps console warranty
- Supports official Slot2 expansion device
- Support MicroSD/SDHC, high capacity, high speed
- Support GBA/DS game linker, support single card download play
- Direct save to MicroSD/SDHC, no more save loss
- Multimedia in video, music player, text reading and picture viewing
- Graphic user interface, support touch screen and keypad
- RAM expansion, support official web browser
- Rumble support
- GBA game and homebrew support

Packaging

For EZ Flash V Pack 

- EZ Flash V Card
- Micro SD USB Card Reader
- Stretchable Metal Stylus
- Thumb Finger Pen

For EZ Flash 3in1 Expansion Pack
(To realise the extra functions including Rumble, Official Browser and GBA Play)

- Slot 2 Card

Installation

Drag and drop the install file to SD card.

GUI

EZ’s graphical GUI is simple and easy to understand, there’re five icons on the left side: Brightness Adjust, Softreset, Help, System Setting (nopass feature and cheat) and Soft Shutdown. The Rumble is optional with 3in1 Expansion Pack.

With Moonshell built in, EZ Flash V Plus supports for MP3,Ogg, WAV, MOD, DPG, BMP, JPG, PNG and text files by highlighting the file and pressing A to launch.

Performance

All issued games work with the latest kernel, for one special game - Band Brothers DX it may use about 1.5 minutes to creat a 8MB save data for the first time play. The download play is also satisfied.

Summary

With developer and community support EZ Flash V performs well-done in compatibility for software and its unique extra features. The price is not the bottom one but still competitive with R4, M3 etc. It’s fairly a good choice to choose.

Score - 8.5/10

4. DSTT

Official Site: DSTT

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Introduction

DSTT is the easiest slot 1 interface flshacard for beginners. There isn’t any native feaure beside powerful gameplay both on Nintendo DS and GBA (need GBA expansion pak). The develop team makes it professionally.

Official Features

- 100% SDHC TF and standard TF compatibility up to 4TB (4096GB) flash memory card
- High speed SDHC. Supports roms, multimedia files or homebrews of any size
- Save directly to TF card, not to onboard chip, never lose saves
- Automatically detect and generate save type
- Supports Moonshell and homebrew. DLDI auto-patching
- Supports Action Replay cheat and edit the code base
- Built-in energy-saving design
- Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
- Supports Download play

Packaging

- DSTT Card
- Micro SD USB Card Reader
- Mini CD Installation Disc
- Rumble Pack and GBA Expansion Pack (retail)

Installation

Drag and drop the install file to SD card.

GUI

Boot up the DS and it will directly jump to the main menu with a full list of game and homebrew. There’re some icons under the name of each game which do different correlative to the game. Hit the game icon to start it or hit the game title for settings (game option, soft reset and cheat).

Performance

DSTT performs all games and homebrews in excellent result. No slowdown or save error, as well as download play. Moonshell and other multimedia homebrew run perfectly, if you need those, just install.

Summary

Simple interface with direct usage makes it identical to Nintendo style: simple is the best. The cheap price and great build quality also add bonus. So why not wait for those pure gamers.

Score - 8.5/10