That's part of the system it uses to pass as a real game and boot on the DSi/3DS. If you were to change it to a custom one, it would no longer run.
Thanks for the reply Rydian, I didnt mean a custom one. I want to change it to another game, like for example if I am playing Fire Emblem I want it to log in Activity log that I am playing Fire emblem, if I am playing Pokemon or Professor Layton I want it to log those.. so it would still be real games. Is there any way to change this? Even if its a painstakingly complicated process that I would have to go through every time I want to play a new game?
Thanks!
the game shown and used by the card use to bypass some of the checks Nintendo put in, i think
if you want the real game you are playing to show, BUY IT and PLAY IT using the real game card
if you want the real game you are playing to show, BUY IT and PLAY IT using the real game card
That's what I'm talking about. What's recorded in the activity log is the game that the flash cart presents itself to the 3DS as. Once the 3DS has booted the cart, it records that data into the activity log, so anything you do once the R4 has started (like loading DS ROMs) has no bearing on what's recorded.
And yes, I am talking real games as well. Even if you were to change it to another real game, it would likely make it cart unable to boot because it's not just the header, other data is requested as well, and it has to be one of a very small list of games (ones that are in the whitelist which was instated for DS games before sigs in the header).
http://hackmii.com/2010/02/lawsuit-coming-in-3-2-1/
Read this if you want more info on how it works on a technical level, but the answer is still "not if you want to actually use the flash cart on a 3DS".
Very informative article. Thank you. I guess ill have to just hope there is some sort of patcher program in the future that you can run to change them out (although that looks unlikely)...
Considering that a single piece of wrong data will make a flash cart be detected by the DSi/3DS and unable to boot on it anymore, nobody's seriously tried. In addition the updates are encrypted and are built for a specific hardware config, nobody's successfully run an update from one cart on another (they really are using different chips and hardwares).
Hell, most flash cart teams barely update their own cart's headers (which needs to be done every few DSi/3DS updates, usually).
The activity log is of whatever the cart is faking itself as, and has no relation to how many ROMs are on it or what it launches after it's booted, etc.
If you want it to reflect the game, you will need to play on the real carts. Otherwise you'll just have to deal with the 3DS listing something weird, like it does for everybody else.
If you want it to reflect the game, you will need to play on the real carts. Otherwise you'll just have to deal with the 3DS listing something weird, like it does for everybody else.
So in theory, once all the log info is collected and sent to Nintendo from the 3DS, they can see everyone's suddenly playing "X game name here", and start blocking flash cards that use this game's ID... correct?
What I don't understand is when they block a certain Game ID, why isn't the REAL legit game blocked too? I'm not familiar with 3/DS game booting, so I'm curious how they can block a flashcard using a fake game ID, but the real cart doesn't get blocked...
Assuming that the log info is sent and studied like that, but the blocking process isn't that simple because it can only determine so much from the cart.
They don't block IDs particularly.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/why-was-my-cart-blocked-how-do-i-unblock-it-firmware-update.315784/
If the 3DS sees a certain ID, it asks for more info, stuff that would come from the ROM. Obviously it can only ask for a small bit of data, because including a map of all the data in every DS game inside the 3DS just wouldn't work. So flash cart teams find the data being requested, and include just those tiny bits, just enough to pass the check.
Well then, perhaps the flash carts should start including retail game rom information in their bootloaders... I know it's illegal as hell, but flash cards are already in hot water as it is for some countries. All they need is some REALLY small legit DS rom, and I bet they could pass the checks 100% every time, without getting blocked. Maybe no card manufacturer has the balls to do so? o.O
The DSi/3DS just requests small bits of data (not huge chunks of the ROM), so the flash cart is updated to give just those small bits of data when requested.
You can't just choose any ROM you want.
http://hackmii.com/2010/02/lawsuit-coming-in-3-2-1/
It has to be a ROM that's part of the whitelist, which means only the older DS games, and it also has to be one where not too much data is requested (as flash carts have small amounts of internal space, this is why the Ak2i stopped updating, nowadays the DSi/3DS wants more data than the Ak2i can physically hold).
Flash cart teams also tend to stay away from first-party games, otherwise Nintendo might get mad (and go after them more actively).
In addition, such a tool would require that the encryption and junk for their flash cart were to be publicly released, and they don't want that because then other flahs cart teams could take their updates and modify them for themselves, and they're all in competition here.
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I think the question was more a case of, if the cart uses game X to bypass the check, tell the user to provide a rom of that game, so that if they change what data is asked for, it will be available without need to reflash the cart.
Ah, but that'd need a new hardware model for most carts (DSTwo already reads some boot info from the MicroSD, nobody's bothered checking into that since it's always been updated within like 24 hours).
I'm just hoping that the DSTHREE will give us a kick-ass 3DS flashcard, above and beyond the Gateway... Supercard team has always impressed me with their superior products. 
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