Nintendo DS lite as Mp3 player..

[Kisskerven]

Lots of things on the net about this.. but uh.. anyone know PERSONALLY what works the best?

Iam hopin to play mp3 on my new ds lite (yay early x mas!) but kinda lost in all the advertising.

Id like to have it show pictures and movies too if i could, and support a rather large sd card, play DS games and the like...

heres the thing.. Do I need slot 1 (the DS size) or Slot 2 (GBA slot) for this? If I can just use the GBA that would be great- so I could plug in a normal game and play.


Iam . ... royally confused on all this.

heres 2 examples in case you have no idea.
supercard lite - micro sd (GBA slot)
supercard ds one (DS slot)

some lack info on what I need, but "lead" me to believe they will work.. etc..

Personally Id like a GBA card I can just leave in- play my DS games I have when I want to- and jump to the Supercard when i want music or whatever

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

All flash carts can run MoonShell, a very good MP3/OGG player that also does video. I have a Datel Games n' Music (slot-1), it's a pretty low quality device, but it runs MoonShell fine. If you want better, the R4, M3Simply, SuperCard One, etc will all run well. I would avoid Slot2 devices because you have to use a PassMe (slot-1 device that passes program execution to slot-2). The DS doesn't natively run DS code from the 2nd slot, so it requires a sort of hack to make it do so. However, I also have a GBA Movie Player V2 (upgraded with unofficial firmware) and with the modified firmware, it can run DS code from Slot-2, but I have to use my Games n' Music to boot it.

I have some videos about DS Homebrew on Youtube, you might want to check it out:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

[Ensign_Expendable]

Pretty much all shells come with a media player. I have the M3Simply, and it plays all sorts of stuff.

 

[Baez]

I have an R4 but the supply of them has been pretty low lately so I picked up a couple of EzFlashes for my friends. Personally I like the EzFlash better. Quicker startup and the moonshell interface as its main screen is much better.