hook up a hard drive to your Nintendo DS

[17R3W]

How to: hook up a hard drive to your Nintendo DS

We'll forever be in awe of people like Alexei Karpenko, a modder who one day "decided to do a quick IDE to GBAMP hack". That's right -- as a casual aside, Alexei hooked up a hard drive to his Nintendo DS via a GameBoy cartridge originally designed to play short movies from a CompactFlash card. The hack is apparently possible due to similarities between the CF interface and that of standard IDE hard drives: Alexei simply soldered the correct pins onto a 40GB disk and connected it to a 11.1 volt battery and 5 volt DC-to-DC converter. As you can see, the unwieldy setup isn't much of a PSP rival (remember, that second "P" stands for portable), but the mere fact that it's at all possible will undoubtedly impress your inner geek.



http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/10/h...r-nintendo-ds/
http://www.natrium42.com/blog/?p=39

[Autocon]

Wow. Very interesting, but right now also incredibly useless. I'd be interested in doing that myself if there was a practicle application and it didn't involve soldering.

[paulkrulers1234]

it sounds so stupid who would want this

why would anybody wants this i dont know why,
this is so stupid you already have wi fi.
everyone dont use this its incredibly pointless

lol... stop embarrasing yourself with your tech ignorance

and don't double post, please

[Pilot_51]

It's particularly useful for hardcore homebrewers right now, not much else.