It's a retail unit with custom firmware, I forget the codename for them. $250 or so from warioworld I think
Not a debug. Just a test unit with a flash cart. I think I read it's called "Panda" but that might be wrong.
Panda is the dsi one, it's just a normal ds but the firmware is different I believe it will run without the securrom / copy protection
Every time I see a portable from Nintendo with a flash cart of some sort sticking that far out I have to wonder what engineer thought that was a good idea. Seems like its just asking for someone to sit it down wrong and snap it in two.
They weren't made to look good and handle a 5yr old kid throwing them down stairs. They were made quickly to get the job done as efficiently as possible.
By "as efficiently as possible" you mean "a job that could have been envisioned by the 12 year old nephew of the CEO on a sugar binge". Flash carts for the DS, while obviously not what you'd need for 3DS debugging, show what someone can do to be as efficient as possible if not more so. And yes they won't survive a 5 year old throwing it down the stairs but as an adult who owns gaming hardware accidents DO happen. I can't imagine Nintendo epoxies their hardware to a desk so that they can't and I also can't imagine it being a cheap thing to replace. Doesn't mean I can't still think/believe/know that having your cart stick out like that isn't the best of ideas.
Cool find! It seems those are called Panda as well: http://www.planet3ds.net/news/nintendo-3ds-dev-kit-prices-leaked/ Does anyone know if such a unit and flash cart are usable without the corresponding dev kit? Does the system play retail games? Is it region free?
Much better than the prototype sets with classic controllers hah That said, if anyone wants to get me a development system down the line a bit, let me know
