Having charged it when I first received the unit last week, it hasn't needed charging despite my daily usage. Whichever way you look at it, it was a pain, and it really held back what was otherwise a brilliant dongle.

Because of it storing so little power, if you wanted to change payloads, you'd have to update it manually by editing a text file on your PC, or loading into whichever payload was currently enabled, and cycling through them once your switch had started up. This of course beckons the question: why should I be buying this if it functions the same as the first? To boil it down to a single word-battery.īy far my largest criticism of the original AceNS was the requirement to plug it in for a few seconds before you could use it. If you bought the first iteration, everything is familiar.

Nothing has changed here: the dongle appears the same, and functions the same. You have the same simplicity in payload updating as the previous design, simply requiring you connect to a PC and drag and drop files just like you would onto a memory stick. The neon red and blue stand out and allow me to make an association on sight, the jig slotting into the back is great to help with keeping it handy without having to keep everything in a box, and the single hardware button feels sturdy with a satisfying click when pressed. The design is again something I'm incredibly fond of. Chances are you'll have a few dozen of these cables lying around from old phones and miscellaneous tech. The micro USB cable is again quite small, with the same issue of the dongle likely hanging from a desktop tower USB port should you decide to plug it in, but with this dongle feeling a reasonable degree lighter than before, it's less of an issue. There's a lot more space inside the box with the dongle being drastically smaller this time around, and the jig being stored internally. Instead of a plain box, it now has clear branding to make it stand out and easier to find on my desk.

Once again, my first impressions were really quite good. What's in the Box?Ī remarkably familiar package at first glance, the second iteration of the AceNS dongle comes in the same transparent box, with the same essentials to get you started. If you want to have a better understanding of the device's features and the dongle this is being compared to, be sure to check out my AceNS review. A second RCM dongle from the Ace3DS team, this review mainly focuses on what's new and different.

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