Topic: iplayer-is it worth the $50?

Is it? How does video look on it? do games load well? I'm thinking about buying one. Just need to know a little bit more about it first.

Prepare for a bombardment.

The Iplayer won't let you run ROMs, but it does let you run homebrew like emulators so I don't think this topic is allowed even though I wonder the same question.

i know it wont run ROMS. im glad about that since it hopefully wont get blocked by nintendo. I mean, how well will a homebrew game load on it? But, I'm mostly interested in how video looks because i don't really want to watch a pixellated video or a slow loading game. I want to hear several opinions about this. Thanks for your opinions.

It costs only $35 and it can play GBA games with a special plug-in. You can find reviews on the Internet. Use Google not NL forums!

gba plug-in: really?! I had an idea for something like this where it went into slot 1 (ds card slot) and clipped onto the bottom with a gba slot on the bottom and another ds cartridge slot on the top so people could play guitar hero on it. The places I looked said it cost $50 not $35. I'll look around some more. Thanks for the info!

DarkChen has released a Game Boy Advance emulator plugin for the iPlayer. This emulator is not a .nds file and will not work on anything other than the iPlayer card itself. For those wondering how this was achieved, DarkChen "acquired" the iPlayer SDK and then began to code NDS-GBA to work as a plugin for the firmware. The reason for coding the emulator for iPlayer is so it can take advantage of the iPlayer CPU in order to emulate GBA at a decent speed.

iPlayer GBA Emulator ver 1.0

• Video & Audio

Graphic size: Original size
Game fast forward: default is off. The frame skip level will be set into 9 when you turn on it, then you can play games with the fastest speed
Frame skip type: default is auto, you can set it into Manual, then you can set the frame skip level
Frame skip level: the higher level the faster game speed
Sound switch: switch on/off the sound

• Save State

Write game state: limited 32 slots
Read game state: read saves with the screenshot and date

• Cheats

Supports Pro Action Replay/Gameshark codes.
Put the cheat files into /Gamecht/

• Tools

Screen snapshot:
Save the pics as .png format into /Gamepic/
Supports auto display pics

• Others

Supports Auto standby
Supports CHT/ENG

Note:

Suggest to format microsd card into FAT format, it's faster

How to use:

1st, Make sure the fireware and OS of your iPlayer is the lastest version
2nd, There are CHT/ENG 2 emulators in the zip file. Install the one which fit your iPlayer
3rd, Copy the whole NDS-GBA folder and files into /_system/

Info about the iPlayer: http://www.dsiplayer.com/intro.html

Also, if I get a brand new iplayer now, will it be updated so that it works on firmware v1.4? (just want to make sure)

I'm preety sure it will, but don't quote me on that

If you only have a DSi, be extra careful if your handheld has 1.4. I heard there has to be an update file placed on the SD, and when the black DSi error screen is shown, you have to leave your DSi on and wait several minutes or your cart is bricked.

I'll use my friends ds lite for the update. thanks, I think I'll order my iplayer soon