Comments on: Overclocking Nintendo DS

By: DSA

DSA — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:51:45 +0000

THE PSP ROCKS! IT IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE DS, BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE PSP CAN NOT HAVE TOUCH SCREEN…

By: Mos

Mos — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:45:30 +0000

Is there any way to get a little more speed to it. Like 2.5 or 3X faster.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:54:27 +0000

It’s pretty neat, but I have a couple things that I don’t like about it:

#1: You can’t switch it live… needing to close it, switch it, then open it.

#2: He really butchered the case putting that horible switch in there… Why not a push button one? You know… the kind on old computers that it like a retractable pen? That way, you can drill a nice little hole in there, and use the stylus for pressing the button…

By: smb1985

smb1985 — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:35:01 +0000

I did this, and it works well, even on the old ds

By: Pocketbrain

Pocketbrain — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:47:49 +0000

#13 (japroach) yeah, looks like that’s what he did; 24+33 = 57, 57/33 = 1.7. The sum frequency is apparently driving the 33MHz coprocessor.
#10 (mad_cow): You might have to remove the stock oscillator to do that. It might require lifting just one lead. I could see putting in a 3-position switch with slow, normal, and fast speeds.

By: some city boy

some city boy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:19:45 +0000

yeah, i saw something similar on DS;GEN1.aren’t those only like 30MHz (normal)(sorry i don’t know DS ihave touchscreen PDA, and PSP im good =D)

By: CRVH

CRVH — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:58:38 +0000

#12: Thanks gijs! That’s totally excellent. I put my old GameBoy on a necklace, like Flava-Flav. It’s totally dope. ;)

By: mad_cow

mad_cow — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:32:01 +0000

I would like to see an underclocking mod, so you could slow down the DS at a flick of a switch, would come in handy for fast games.

By: gijs

gijs — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:47:49 +0000

yes you can! check here:
http://gieskes.nl/underclocking_or_overclocking_the_gameboy_classic_tutorial/

By: CRVH

CRVH — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:41:42 +0000

ummm… other than telling your friends that your DS has a switch and is 1.7x faster than theirs, is there any noticable performance enhancement with this hack?

will i be able to play the surgery game faster? ;)

By: Mattts

Mattts — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:07:39 +0000

#4, the DS was not designed to have the clock speed changed in software like the PSP as scaling down the speed is not necessary for extending the very short battery life of the PSP due to moving parts (UMD) etc.

#7, not many people although it has become quite popular recently with the PSX emulator hack allowing quite a few games to run perfectly on it.

By: Alex K.

Alex K. — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:01:06 +0000

@redfireant:

who the hell plays psp anyway?

By: whitewiz

whitewiz — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:05:49 +0000

iwe done this a long time a go. and it works. :P even in online games.(mario kart).

By: japroach

japroach — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:47:44 +0000

Anyone know how oscillators react when they are placed in parallel?

I cant really see the layout of the circuit from the pictures, but it looks like he might have done that.

By: Kevinin

Kevinin — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:30:45 +0000

how about the older Game Boys? could you manipulate its cpu frequency, too?