Speed of load may sway in their favor IF and ONLY IF the rest of the features are on parity. Chasing patched ROMs is no fun.
Here is my take on the DS cart. Take it with a grain of salt
The project has went nowhere since i started this thread. Literally NOWHERE.
My guess is darksoft thought he could make a product "good enough" to get sales. And maybe he could have. Then neosd came out of nowhere and rocked everyones world
Now as others mentioned hes probably back to the drawing board. Probably even picked up a neosd to see how a patch free neo sd card is possible. He's probably trying right now to make a better neo sd with better loading times.
Will he do it?
At this rate it will be years so you might as well be happy with a neosd. Now im not knocking darksofts skills. From what i hear his cps2 flash is nice. But the onion team are obviously experts. If a faster card could have been made without compromise, they would have done it.
Just forget about the darksoft cart.if he releases it the way he says now the people who want a no hassle sd cart wil own a neosd. People who care more about just loading games fast will get the darksoft cart, IF its ever released.
Right now a 99% perfect neo geo sd cart exists. Buy it, and dont waste time worrying until ds actually has something. Which may be never at this rate.