Happy early Christmas DSDatabase readers!

In accordance to our tradition of hosting raffles every holiday, our sponsor 0ShippingZone.com has stepped up and gave us three carts to raffle away for Christmas. So first I’d like to thank them, they’ve helped our site grow a lot, so be sure to check out their site for rock bottom prices and great service. They also have a new blog providing exclusive information, reviews and of course new product announcements.

The Christmas Raffle is our basic raffle with one extra rule added this time around to embrace the holiday spirit. As usual, no registration is required.

The rules:
- The raffle entries are accepted before midnight December 25th PST (entries are still accepted on Christmas Day).
- To enter simply write one phrase or sentence in reply to this blog post describing some Christmas element, perhaps a trip to see Santa Claus, a party, or the gifts you want, etc. You may only get one raffle ticket through this method, however, feel free to post more than once or even in reply to comments of others. In your comment, please include a valid email in the form, for that is the method by which I will contact the winner.
- To earn an extra 1-3 raffle tickets, go out and do something nice for someone and prove it. Make a donation to a charity, volunteer or even something like giving a Christmas present to someone. Proof can quite literally be anything, a picture, video, a webpage, etc, and should be posted in this thread on the forum. Rules regarding multiple entries and receiving more than one ticket are detailed in the thread.

We have three separate carts to raffle off:
1x AceKard 2i
1x AceKard 2.1
1x R4DS

Needless to say they will go to three separate winners. The first person who wins the raffle gets to pick first, the second person gets to pick second and the third gets the remaining prize.

So…. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! And be sure to spread the Christmas joy by doing something good!

I’d like to introduce yet another proud DSDatabase sponsor. 5thDimensionStore is based in Vancouver, Canada, so same place where I’m from, and I’m utterly shocked at how they can price their wares the way they do, I’ve been whining about shipping all this time, and yet somehow Jamie from 5thDimensionStore.com is able to offer free shipping internationally.

In any case, they will be helping us from now on with the fees to running this place, prizes, etc. So be sure to help them out as well by checking out their store and seeing what you like. Their prices are really quite good, and they are always online on MSN for great customer service.

What should you buy from them?
Well the prices on the shop are listed in Canadian currency, so keep that in mind. So when you look at their $20 AceKard 2i, it is in reality an $18 AceKard 2i with free shipping. The M3i Zero at $30 (roughly $27 USD) is also a steal. These are INSANE deals considering the fact that they are based in North America so your carts will be shipped out faster than the international counterparts.

So yea, be sure to check them out, they sell AceKards, M3’s, and errrr the R4’s!

Halloween is coming up and I promised another raffle. For this ghoulish occasion, we are giving out an EZ Flash Vi cart, and I suppose the black and yellow (possibly orange) design is a perfect fit for this competition.

Anyways, there are two methods to enter this time, either from the blog or the forum for a single entry, or both for two separate entries!

So the instructions:
Blog:
1. Post on this thread with a short Halloween story or a description of what you plan to wear for trick or treating or your Halloween parties. Minimum of 15 words. Please include a valid email address in the email address box, or use an account with a valid email address which is the method I will contact the winners.

Forum:
1. Sign up from the blog or the forum side. Please use a valid email address, that is the method I will contact you.
2. Have a post count of 2 or more, so feel free to post new threads or reply to old threads now (please avoid replying to threads that are very old).
3. Post anything in the signup thread to confirm your entry.

The raffle is open until midnight of October 31st, 2009, Pacific Time.

Good luck everyone!

PS. Feel free to use the banner in your signatures in other sites, etc.

Thanks to the EZ Flash team, we now have an EZ Flash Vi review up! They seemed extremely confident when they asked me to review the cart, and I was a little worried with their software labelled as alpha and beta, etc, while the old ones were “stable”. But they assured me that it would be worth my time to look at their product, so I did.

And I have to thank them for giving me the opportunity to review the cart. It is most definitely a contender against the AceKard 2i and M3i Zero, one that can fight along side those two carts evenly. I think the cart is UNDERRATED, and UNDER APPRECIATED. Be sure to check this cart out, it may be my new main flash cart.

Just as a taste of what the cart can do:
- The browser is FAST. So scrolling through your games is actually faster on the EZ Flash Vi than the AceKard 2i or M3i Zero
- Load times are about the same, if not faster than the AceKard 2i and M3i Zero
- A pseudo-enhanced menu, it doesn’t look as polished as the CycloDS Evolution, but there is a menu for real time guide, real time save, etc.
- Real time save (nothing special here except that they have it)
- Real time guide (arguably the best one on the market), able to run 2 guides for one game, supports pictures, scrolls fast, but requires a program to format

So head on to the EZ Flash Vi Review.

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I have made a video, the fate of the winner is sealed, however under the request of GameByGame, we are delaying the announcement of the winner by 1 day.

This is a chance for those of you that have the strangest feeling that you have won, or perhaps an odd sensation tingling in your spine to make your purchase at GameByGame.com and take advantage of the bonus prize they are giving out if the winner is a past customer.

Remember, all purchases made up until the post is made tomorrow at noon are fair game and will be counted towards the bonus prize!

Good luck to everyone, I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving (if you’re Canadian I guess).