I thought I’d do some reviews of some of the really really bad tech I own. I’ve got some critical facilities, and I like tinkering with technology. So this seems like a good way to fill in some otherwise empty time.
You might be asking, ‘What is an M3 DS Simply?, which would be appropriate if you are anything but a giant nerd. If you are a giant nerd (by which I mean a nerd who knows a lot of stuff, rather than somebody suffering from giantism who also happens to be a nerd) you’ll know that an M3 DS Simply is a way of playing pirate games on a Nintendo DS.
The devices are advertised as being for ‘homebrew’, which is a type of computer program written by hobbyists, but the majority of people buy these devices to run pirate copies of games. Which is why the M3 is advertised as having a 100% success rate at running ‘backup’ copies of games.
I’ve found the success rate to be somewhere around 2%. I’ll admit to not knowing everything about the process of running my… uh… ‘backup’ games, but I’ve tried pretty much everything I can try without resorting to shaking a dead chicken over the cartridge, or praying to a baleful god of handheld gaming. The few games backups I have got working are so random as to be remarkable in their diversity.
This leaves me running homebrew on my expensive DS. Well… such homebrew as works, anyway. And frankly, if I wasn’t constantly messing around with computers in a way that’s considered ‘arty’, I’d have very little use for most of the homebrew that’s out there.
If you are considering getting a *cough cough* backup device like the M3 DS Simply for yourself, I’d advise against it unless you really wanted to use homebrew software. Even then, I might point you towards a PSP, an iPhone, or an iPod Touch, all of which are more expensive, but have a better track record of running homebrew software. The DS Simply – and other, similar products – are too much bother for too little return.
