Hacking EZFlash Redux. New 3ds flash cart?

[CreAtor135]

You said the magic word, "documentation". Again, anyones who have the proper hardware can make CFW with card's multirom support.

Yes, but this is essentially unrelated to that.

 

[Zidapi]

You said the magic word, "documentation". Again, anyones who have the proper hardware can make CFW with card's multirom support.

If I'm reading this correctly, this documentation is a starting point that would allow CFW devs like @Aurora Wright, to implement Gateway red cart support to her CFW?

I know this had already been achieved years ago with in private pre-rxTools custom firmwares.

I would love to never have to boot into Gateway Mode again. But, I guess it's way too much work to benefit a (comparatively) very small group of people sadly.

 

[Aurora Wright]

Knowing the cart protocol is just a small part, you need to write an arm9 thread to be running to communicate with the cart, add hooks in Process9 for the gamecart ROM reading/savegame reading+writing, have an arm11 module running to have a menu to interact with the arm9 code to choose the game and stuff like that.

 

[Onepunchbruh]

what roms does it play?

 

[SimplyFedorable]

what roms does it play?

All of them

 

[Billy Acuña]

-snip-
Thanks @Aurora Wright [emoji14]

 

[Onepunchbruh]

All of them

like? 3ds?

 

[Deleted-19228]

Hmm, if it works as advertised, this will be a gateway killer at half the price!

I've heard nothing bad about EZ Flash since the GBA days, glad to see they've made a comeback.

We have a free gateway killer called A9LH + Luma...

 

[Kioku]

We have a free gateway killer called A9LH + Luma...

Meh. Halfway the same thing.

 

[Zidapi]

Knowing the cart protocol is just a small part, you need to write an arm9 thread to be running to communicate with the cart, add hooks in Process9 for the gamecart ROM reading/savegame reading+writing, have an arm11 module running to have a menu to interact with the arm9 code to choose the game and stuff like that.

Thank you for chiming in on this Miss. It's even more work than I'd thought.

Since the CFW side of things (Gateway Mode) hasn't been RE'd by anyone (not since 4.x to my knowledge anyhow), we'd essentially be starting from scratch.

like?

Like, all of them.

"All" is an absolute, which part are you struggling with?

 

[NazoXIII]

We have a free gateway killer called A9LH + Luma...

Fine fine, semantics.
The "Gateway killer" flashcart.

As weird as it may seem, some people actually gravitate to .3ds/3dz files.

 

[owek1]

Fine fine, semantics.
The "Gateway killer" flashcart.

As weird as it may seem, some people actually gravitate to .3ds/3dz files.

more like AAC/MP3 to 16bit and 24 bit FLAC music files.. a9lh+Luma being Spotify/Apple Music/Google Music which is noob friendly whereas those who prefer 3DS/3DZ is equivalent to those who would purchase a disc or vinyl and rip the data themselves..

anyway, good to have alternatives..

 

[hellionz]

no support, no party.....remember ezflash Vi ....forgotten totally

Greetings

 

[Onepunchbruh]

Thank you for chiming in on this Miss. It's even more work than I'd thought.

Since the CFW side of things (Gateway Mode) hasn't been RE'd by anyone (not since 4.x to my knowledge anyhow), we'd essentially be starting from scratch.


Like, all of them.

"All" is an absolute, which part are you struggling with?

3ds,nds or gba?

 

[tvall]

All of them

Like, all of them.

"All" is an absolute, which part are you struggling with?

sweet. cant wait to play psx isos full speed. and ive been waiting for a good way to play n64 on the go.

 

[Mrrraou]

You said the magic word, "documentation". Again, anyones who have the proper hardware can make CFW with card's multirom support.

it's way more complicated than you may think. i have a ds2+, i reversed Supercard's CFW. doing the init the exact same way as they do, no success getting my ds2+ to init properly (wrong spi reply); however it works on a gw red card for some reason.

If I'm reading this correctly, this documentation is a starting point that would allow CFW devs like @Aurora Wright, to implement Gateway red cart support to her CFW?

I know this had already been achieved years ago with in private pre-rxTools custom firmwares.

I would love to never have to boot into Gateway Mode again. But, I guess it's way too much work to benefit a (comparatively) very small group of people sadly.

no documentation available, but shinyquagsire did a small lib for r/w raw sectors on a gw red cart, initializing it etc.
private pre-rxTools cfws used gw's FIRMs, afaik.

Knowing the cart protocol is just a small part, you need to write an arm9 thread to be running to communicate with the cart, add hooks in Process9 for the gamecart ROM reading/savegame reading+writing, have an arm11 module running to have a menu to interact with the arm9 code to choose the game and stuff like that.

^
the arm11-side code isn't actually necessary (gateway hooks into menu tho, afaik). the p9 thread mostly is for the OSD/rom selector. cart communication is done with the hooks.

Since the CFW side of things (Gateway Mode) hasn't been RE'd by anyone (not since 4.x to my knowledge anyhow), we'd essentially be starting from scratch.

saying that is pretty untrue btw

 

[PaiiNSteven]

oh shit rxtools got a flashcart
Jokes aside, if it means what it says then thats a gateway killer for sure.

 

[Zidapi]

saying that is pretty untrue btw

Thanks for providing additional information. Now, at the risk of veering further of topic...

Which part? I was very careful with the language I used particularly "to my knowledge".

I figured that just as NTR had been RE'd privately, that Gateway to some extent likely had been too. I just wasn't expecting anyone would confirm it publicly

 

[Nirmonculus]

Late to the party, I see.

Do people still buy 3ds flashcarts anymore? :U

Don't buy this. Save your $$ ££ ¥¥ €€ PP. XD

 

[Mbmax]

Interesting ...