The DS-Xtreme Flashcart lives on after production delays that many customers have been experiencing, and it's only going to get better from here on out! This most recent news from the team details the production delays experienced, and clarifies on an old secret of theirs, the "fully upgradeable" feature. The good news is that there is no bad news today, so we can all rest stress-free for the upcoming holidays if you are a owner or a future owner of the DS-Xtreme. The production issues came after the team did a few quick changes to quality control after a few faulty units and a few issues with customs and an sweatshop assembly plant in China. The production of the DS-Xtreme cartridge is back on "track", so those awaiting your shipment to arrive may shortly get it!

Now, the "big" news of the day comes in the form of some technological revelation about the product. The DS-Xtreme is commented and credited for being "fully upgradeable". Now, you may say to yourself that other flashcarts can easily update themselves as well, but this is no simple OS update that I am referring to. As many of you know, the DS is a relatively "weak" system when compared to other systems on the market right now. However, when coupled with the DS-Xtreme, this weakness is gone, and now the DS can be seen as a strong competitor, ready to throw punches at almost anything with an instant knock-out win!

According to the news, the DS-Xtreme "has enough "room" to fit a complete ARM9 core and can be clocked at over 300mhz!" Although, this would not be overclocked to such an extreme due to the fact that there won't be any "room" left over for anything else. Now, to put this into reference - the DS has two CPU's which clock in at 67mhz and 33mhz each! The DS-Xtreme is more powerful than your DS and has the ability to change into something entirely different than it is now. Need it to boost up the speed on an emulator - grab a DS-Xtreme, chat with the team and settle something out where you, the developer, can use part of their great technology and speed. The DS can be powerful, you just need something to help it get its way to that status - the DS-Xtreme will do that! Here's a quote that will sum most of it up for you -

Yes! by simply plugging your DS-Xtreme into your PC and performing a complete update we could re-program your device into something completely different . With a click of a button itÂ’s even possible to completely implement one of the most popular and state of the art cpu architectures out there today. (and run it at 10 times the speed your ds is running at ;-) )

Via DS-X