Also dang hunting around for a different SD card reader netted me a 4gb and a 16gb class 4 micro sdhc cards. my 8gb is class 10, which I assume means it's the fastest one I own.
the 1 and 2gb microsds tho don't have a class rating. so... probably slow as heck.
Nonetheless, more micro sds = more good, right?
...welp used the sd card formatter tool to try and wipe this sd card...
and it disconnected somehow halfway through, so the format failed. and now windows doesn't recognise the SD card at all so if it's plugged into the reader, it doesn't detect it at all.
meaning I can't format it hahahaUHFSHasjfAHSFAS
On the upside I now have a 1gb and 2gb microsd card (older ones tho, so they're probably p. slow and very crap quality) that I can use for anything I like now.
...heck if this r4i 3ds clone is totally buggered I can at least use the 8gb SDHC card in it for data storage too. it's a pretty good one at least.
As for the R4 Rev, (also def a clone) it also doesn't read the card and I think it might also have had a spring catch because the sd card sits... very low in its slot... The DS lite just doesn't read the M3 or R4 as existing, and the R4i 3ds's firmware on the sd card is apparently fucked I guess. Shame. Ah well.
Not sure what caused this because the R4i was definitely working, I was playing Cooking Mama 3 on my DS lite. Then suddenly just... whomp. White screen forever. :<
The R4i 3DS just white screens on booting up so... I have no idea what's up with THAT one. yow.
the otyher one I have is actually an R4 Revolution for DS. not another R4i 3ds, forgot I sold that one (mercifully it worked).
The M3 is dead, definitely. (also it's an M3 DS Simply). it won't read the micro sd card at all and the spring catch inside the slot for the micro sd (WHY does it have that seriously ugh what a bad design) is broken so the sd card woon't stay in no matter what. I don't have a small enough screwdriver to take it apart either.
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I promise if I go back to that game I'm gonna find the name rater and rename that poor Marowak, he doesn't deserve a crap "joke" nickname like that.
Okay between "Terrence" the Aerodactyl and "Cerbirdus" the Doduo aiming to become a Dodrio, I think my leaf green save has some of the best pun nicknames ever.
Still genuinely upset at myself for the Marowak's name tho. :/ not as in "ugh that's not a very good pun", but more as just it's a pretty lazy, ignorant "joke" no matter what way you look at it. yeah i probably rationalised it back then as "lol monty python bruces' sketch" but.. . still. ugh. bad me. -_-
Daft pokemon nicknames in my Leaf Green save
@Nine ...is it not because Terry Dactyl
Daft pokemon nicknames in my Leaf Green save
There was nothing good in my Heart Gold save. I didn't get that creative with the names. ^^;
I wonder if I named my Eevee Duchovny because "David Duchovn-Eevee"??... or "Fox Mulder" because Eevees are kinda foxlike... Probably anyway. Not an especially good nickname at any rate.
I think the Dragonair is named Freya because it means "Lady" in old norse I guess? It's a pretty name nonetheless.
Wondering why I didn't call my Gyarados "Jormungundr" tho
Daft pokemon nicknames in my Leaf Green save
I named my Lapras "Yermak" for some reason. hm. .. Ohhh right, it's an Icebreaker ship. because Lapras is good for learning Surf or something.
I do have a Gyarados named "Mr Fish" after the same character from Kelly Turnbull's "Manly Guys Doing Manly Things" comics.
very disappointed I have a Marowak I called Bruce though :| That was lazy of me.
Daft pokemon nicknames in my Leaf Green save
I of course have a Paras who I named Shiitake. Though I have a male Drowzee I've named Franz. I'm... sure that's a reference to a psychologist or something, or something to do with dreams and hypnosis.
My male Hitmonchan is Balrog of course after the SF2 character (named M.Bison in japan of course but I am not japanese)
I apparently got the Kabuto in this one rather than PRAISING HELIX, so I named him Nobunaga.
...aaand I named my Grimer "Enron" --;
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