Yeah, I hear you. I kinda wish I'd got one of these other DRM free devices as much as I love my DS Lite. There is a lot of hysteria surrounding using the expansion cards with the DS. However there is hope. The EFF passed a case in the USA making it legal to jailbreak the iPhone and run "unauthorised" applications on it.
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone
Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26
Maybe we will see this one day with the DS.
What might really help a portable version of the FPGAArcade board would be a way to get legal versions of roms for it. I would like to replace all the roms I have with legal, authorised versions (I have copies that I downloaded before 2003 but I no longer use the rom download sites as I think they harm the community).
> Their FPGA is pre-programmed from the factory and handles interfacing the thing to
> the DS. So even if its unlocked for user bitstreams trying to upload one would likely
> brick the Supercard.
>
> Right now the GP2X Cannoo, Dingoo A320, and OpenPandora are the kings of handheld
> emulation (all of them have orders of magnitude more CPU and GPU power than a DS
> Lite, and they're all DRM-free and require no special cards or hacking). Would be
> interesting if someone made a portable version of the FPGAArcade board once more
> emulations were available for it though
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