Originally posted by Sliver X

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No.

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Originally posted by BGNG

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Rapidshare is a pile of crap.

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Originally posted by Millenia

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Sides, I thought this was about two admins before I started reading this thread.

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Originally posted by BMF54123 EX Alpha +

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Originally posted by Ailure

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Seems alright, although consider if you could get it with extra memory or if you could add it afterwards. 512 mb is alright, but 1 gb is even better... if there's any area you should spend the spare change on, it's the memory.

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I beg to differ. You really only need that much RAM if you're playing the latest, greatest games or working with large files. For the average user, especially one on a budget, 256MB is still perfectly fine. Heck, my main computer only has 192MB, and the last time the page file was accessed was in January.

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Originally posted by asdf

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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish

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24.

It's like... The best multiple of 8 ever.

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It's the number of hours during a day, the name of a show, the sum of a twin prime, a highly composite number, the number of frames typically projected per second, 24 Karat Gold (100% Gold), the total number of bits needed for true color images...I see what you mean!

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Originally posted by theclaw

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I've searched everywhere, and even tried manually to create Game Shark codes for the GB Dr. Mario. Nothing useful came out of the effort. GG works fine on that title.

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• The DS has 3 BIOSes; one for ARM7, one for ARM9, and the GBA one. They're ROMs (embedded in the CPU core even) and can't be written to. These provide code that games can use for various things (decompression, math, sound etc) and initiailze the hardware at bootup.
  
• The DS also has firmware, which is on some manner of flash ROM and can be written to. This contains the code that launches games and the startup menu and is thus essential for operation. A virus could indeed ruin the system by wiping this out.
  
• The firmware chip has a safety feature; without poking something conductive in a hole under the battery cover, the first 64K (or 512 bytes on some units) can't be written to. Standard Nintendo firmware doesn't take advantage of this, but the hacked firmware FlashMe (which provides the ability to run homebrew and removes that crappy health warning) uses it. Code in this sector will immediately execute whatever program resides on the GBA cart without initializing anything if a certain key sequence is held at bootup; this program can then restore working firmware.
  
• A DS bricker which overwrites the firmware does exist. However there's no way to just send malicious code to someone's DS, due to the RSA encryption/signing used. There are only two ways to run unsigned code on a DS, both of which exploit the poor design of the games' header ¹ to trick the system into booting whatever code is on the GBA cart. (The idea being you put code on a flash cart.) Although you can do this wirelessly on most units (newer ones block it), it still only boots from the GBA cart, so you can't send actual code.² (In short, the only way to get infected by it is to run it yourself.) Also, interesting fact; the bricker will be picked up by antivirus programs on a PC.