Hacking Converting NDS to DSIware to CIA?

[MRJPGames]

I'm pretty sure that one is different than the DSi Ware title though. I had a friend who the retail cart, and I believe the menus looked different than the DSi Ware version.
That's about it though.

It is different (DSiWare version is better but has less content)

 

[Deleted User]

It is different (DSiWare version is better but has less content)

I had a feeling there were more differences than just menus.
We only really played vs multiplayer together, and all I saw was the menus, either that or that's all I remember. :^T

 

[d0k3]

Nintendo DSi:
1. Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20737085/dsi_srl_extract.zip
2. Copy any and all DSiWare titles you have to your SD card (Note: only works with an actual DSi)
3. Navigate to /private/ds/title
4. Drag the .bin file(s) onto the executable
5. You now have the ripped (and decrypted) rom from your DSiWare

Nintendo 3DS: (4.x only)
1. Download https://mega.co.nz/#!yJRDyJTB!4XHklwfVbbwbYNdfqUjvdVIHyo5gPUBfAIf78Hu9j0c
2. Get the ID from your DSiWare (If you only copy one to your SD it'll be in SD:\Nintendo 3DS\<UID0>\<UID1>\Nintendo DSiWare\<your game's ID>.bin) (You can also see it on the top screen in BBB or DevMenu but the ID you want to use later is without the 0x)
3. Edit dsiware_InjectTitleIDinMset.py
4. Change to
5. Run dsiware_InjectTitleIDinMset.py (You'll need python for this)
6. Copy msetforboss.dat to your 3DS' SD card
7. Use MultiROP-Loader and select MsetForBoss (4x or 6x depends on your FW)
8. Go to system settings -> Other Settings -> Profile -> Nintendo DS Profile (If it doesn't load reboot and try again)
9. Select "dump DSiWare" and press A
10. You'll now have that one DSiWare title dumped on your 3DS' SD card as dsiware.nds

Thank you! That should definitely be in the guides subsection. It is of limited use now for 3DS users (unless they don't want to play on an emulator on PC), but it might get a lot more important in the future.

You can run most DSi Enhanced titles on a DS flashcart, though. I've ran Emily the Strange - Strangerous (DSi Enhanced) (U) on my R4i Gold just fine.

I got that wrong, ie. mixed up the difference between DSi-enhanced and DSi-exclusive. There are actually only 5 retail game cartridges in total that are DSi exclusive. On Wikipedia (list of games also found there): "DSi-enhanced" game cards contain DSi-exclusive features, but can still be used with earlier models; "DSi-exclusive" game cards cannot.

It would be interesting if the CycloDS iEvolution can play these "DSi exclusive" titles and the converted DSIWare and thus it would be worth it hunting for that card.

 

[cearp]

basically the only real DS game that is available for 3ds is the japanese version of advance wars days of ruin.
it is only available for club nintendo platinum members.
someone ..... .. ... .. .. uploaded it to the nice 3ds piracy site most of us enjoy.
karl3ds said they wanted to look at it since, sure, most dsiware is all capped at 16mb. so, the format for this game must be different.
maybe, it would be quite simple to swap out the ds rom with another, it depends what the format is like.
maybe the game was really built again for dsiware and it is not a simple conversion that we can take advantage of, but i doubt it.

but, look at this

No iirc because most DS games expect certain hardware which TWL doesn't emulate (ie SRAM chips).

so, even if we could make ds roms as dsiware and have them installed to our 3ds, twl does not emulate all the different hardware.

 

[MRJPGames]

basically the only real DS game that is available for 3ds is the japanese version of advance wars days of ruin.
it is only available for club nintendo platinum members.
someone ..... .. ... .. .. uploaded it to the nice 3ds piracy site most of us enjoy.
karl3ds said they wanted to look at it since, sure, most dsiware is all capped at 16mb. so, the format for this game must be different.
maybe, it would be quite simple to swap out the ds rom with another, it depends what the format is like.
maybe the game was really built again for dsiware and it is not a simple conversion that we can take advantage of, but i doubt it.

but, look at this

so, even if we could make ds roms as dsiware and have them installed to our 3ds, twl does not emulate all the different hardware.

It only emulates DSi Hardware, so that should work right. (How we know it's DSi hardware: 1. DSiWare can run; 2.DSi exclusives can run; 3. DSi enhanced games are enhanced)

 

[ReyVGM]

Anyone know how to convert those DSiWare .cia files to regular .nds?

I'm not interested in playing on a real console, instead, I want to test the games on No$gba, but it only loads .nds files. So far I've been unable to find a tutorial to convert from .cia to .nds.
I downloaded a tool called dsi_srl_extract, but it didn't do anything, or maybe I don't know how it works.

 

[MRJPGames]

Anyone know how to convert those DSiWare .cia files to regular .nds?

I'm not interested in playing on a real console, instead, I want to test the games on No$gba, but it only loads .nds files. So far I've been unable to find a tutorial to convert from .cia to .nds.
I downloaded a tool called dsi_srl_extract, but it didn't do anything, or maybe I don't know how it works.

dsi_srl_extract is to extract .NDS files from .bin which come from the DSi. As far as I know you cannot go from cia to NDS but you can just download ~118 DSiWare titles as .NDS if you want. You could also PM me one you want I probably have it and I could upload it to mega for you.

 

[ReyVGM]

Oh, many thanks.

I did download that pack, there are even a few more posted over at that place where the pack is available. There are a lot more DSiWare available, but they are only in .cia format, which means they won't work with the emulator.

 

[blindseer]

Oh, many thanks.

I did download that pack, there are even a few more posted over at that place where the pack is available. There are a lot more DSiWare available, but they are only in .cia format, which means they won't work with the emulator.

Seriously look up a few posts, there is a tut for ripping the cias to nds format from a 4.5 firmware 3ds.

 

[ReyVGM]

Unfortunately I only have a DSi, not a 3DS. I'll take a look at the tutorial to see if I can do it with a DSi too.

 

[MRJPGames]

Unfortunately I only have a DSi, not a 3DS. I'll take a look at the tutorial to see if I can do it with a DSi too.

Nintendo DSi:

1. Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20737085/dsi_srl_extract.zip
2. Copy any and all DSiWare titles you have to your SD card (Note: only works with an actual DSi)
3. Navigate to /private/ds/title
4. Drag the .bin file(s) onto the executable
5. You now have the ripped (and decrypted) rom from your DSiWare in .NDS form
(6. use "make_cia --srl=romname.nds" to convert it to a .cia) - Optional*
* I would recommend you to release both .NDS and .Cia if your planing in making them public on for instance that iso site.

 

[ReyVGM]

Yep, .bin to .nds I know how. I wanted to know if .cia could be converted to .nds or .bin

 

[SpencerlyEverly]

(6. use "make_cia --srl=romname.nds" to convert it to a .cia) - Optional*
* I would recommend you to release both .NDS and .Cia if your planing in making them public on for instance that iso site.

Can anyone release an compiled version of make_cia? Because, it's getting a pain in the butt trying to compile it myself.

 

[blindseer]

Yep, .bin to .nds I know how. I wanted to know if .cia could be converted to .nds or .bin

Yes it can, but only on a 4.5 3ds, so without that no go.

 

[nastys]

Can anyone release an compiled version of make_cia? Because, it's getting a pain in the butt trying to compile it myself.

64-bit Linux: http://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-installing-sudokuhax-on-3ds.388621/page-14#post-5506255
32-bit Linux: http://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-installing-sudokuhax-on-3ds.388621/page-14#post-5506383

 

[MRJPGames]

Can anyone release an compiled version of make_cia? Because, it's getting a pain in the butt trying to compile it myself.

As I assume your actually running Windows: https://mega.co.nz/#!PVBijaIT!nwGTYZrO-5kcK8TtFm5gKW5097jXxLnoeFM6PqXbaqs (not sure if 64bit or 32bit, I compiled it on a 64 bit machine so it works on that for sure but I think it should also work on a 32bit version)

 

[zoogie]

As I assume your actually running Windows: https://mega.co.nz/#!PVBijaIT!nwGTYZrO-5kcK8TtFm5gKW5097jXxLnoeFM6PqXbaqs (not sure if 64bit or 32bit, I compiled it on a 64 bit machine so it works on that for sure but I think it should also work on a 32bit version)

Usually you compile for 32 bit so it will run on both architectures lol.

windows 32 bit attached below.

 

[MRJPGames]

Usually you compile for 32 bit so it will run on both architectures lol.

windows 32 bit attached below.

Yeah, not much experience in compiling stuff for Windows/PC's in general. Usually only compile for embedded devices, homebrew and such.

 

[eggsample]

I can not install any DSiware CIA. Error invalid argument and invalid combination.
GBA, GBC and other CIAs wors though. What could I missed?

 

[WhoAmI?]

it would be so cool if we could convert .dsiware file into .cia for emunand install,
through dsiware isn't as easy to convert and use as vc games like gbc, nes etc
and the system part sucks as it installs to sys nand and viewing these files in data management deletes all data in emunand cia's and saves

Pretty sure that you can When I downloaded my stuff with FunkyCIA, my DSiWare was stored as .CIA files.