[quote name='crunchewy']I have an M3 DS Simply (equivalent to the R4) for my DS. What I originally got it for was two things: primarily to be able to easily carry all my games with me and have easy and quick access to them (I take the train and bus to work) and secondarily to be able to run homebrew, especially emulators. The big catch is that there is no easy means to rip your own carts, so that means you have to download the roms off of the internet, and there's a slippery slope, of course, as it gets awfully tempting to download some games you don't actually own. I admit I did this, but all along I didn't feel good about it and finally I recently purged my MicroSD card of every rom I didn't actually own. I'm clean now (well, Nintendo and company aren't friends of emus they don't earn money from, but that's an entirely different issue, IMHO.)
Even having said that, there is one remaining issue, albeit a subtle one. It's also very tempting to buy games, but then never open them, and instead download the rom and play that. I have to admit that I have a few games in this state (Warioware Touched is one). I keep meaning to break the seals to make it official, but somehow that never seems to have happened.
Nintendo and the others would do well to provide a means to do these things officially, at least being able to load your handheld with games, rather than having to play from cartridge/disc (or directly downloaded). I realize that the DS doesn't have the means to do this since it has no significant internal storage nor a means to add it (actually I suppose they could do it via an add-on slot-2 card that would provide internal storage, or a MicroSD slot.) They could do it for the next gen handheld, certainly. The games would be media that you load onto your handheld via the cart/disc, but then you wouldn't need to carry the cart/disc with you and you could load multiple games onto the handheld and select from them. In other words, just like the PC world. A DS has a lot less value to me if I have to carry 20 cartridges with me. I probably would not even have bought a DS had it not been for the fact that devices such as the M3DSS existed, which allowed me to carry all my games with me in a compact fashion.[/quote]
I use mine more as an import tool/ demo station. I recently downloaded the new Zelda game, Phantom Hourglass, just to try it out and see how great it looks. Well it looks really great graphically, but I can't do anything without reading Japanese lol. Obviously any huge Zelda fan (like me) is going to grab this game immediately so I'm using the rom as a demo. Stuff like this is totally fine with me. I first played Puzzle Quest on my M3 and I loved it so much I went on a local witch hunt to try to find it, and i did w00t!!! Anyways the thing can be used for good so people should think about that before bitching about it.
Oh and Cheapy, you acted like an ass cutting Wombat off when he was talking about 2K8. I for one am with Wombat on this one, I love football and I'm sure a shitload of other cags do too.
ing ass. 
