Antus: You mention the FTDI usbserial chips were known to work well with the ecu's quirky timings. Know of any other hw thats known to work? UART chips? Or should we be looking for an mcu and use gpio? Any thoughts before I go scouring the web for more info?

Another thing to be aware of before rushing out to get a DS.. There are 3 models at the moment, the original DS, the DS-lite, and the new DSi The original DS and DS-Lite have slot2 slots, the DSi doesn't. However you won't see any of the DSi's around in AU just yet. But if you're searching ebay, and...

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No USB port as standard, although I have heard of home made slot2 projects to add them.. and it is something I had considered doing previously. What do you think would be easier? ionterfacing to a usb host controller? or directly to a uart? I think the software for a host controller would be more co...

Re: windows mobile platform, Also very do-able. Most of the older-ish pocketpcs have compact flash interfaces that are very well defined and easy to use. I'd be happy to help on such a project as well, however the point of the discussion I had with Antus previously was to do a DS project as I'm pret...

Heyas, (I'm the one Antus mentioned who's keen to start a non-frivolous DS hw/sw project) There are a couple choices on how to implement this. I'm not sure if you're all aware of how a DS is set up, but basically it has two cartridge slots, one uses a serial interface (slot1, new DS cartridges use t...