Homebrew Wooddumper 3DS - A way to dump original DS games to 3DS sd card!

[Boured]

The only way this could get better is DSi-Enhanced games support.

Though you might be working on it already which is good :3

 

[Deleted User]

First and foremost, thank you for this, shutterbug! I enjoy looking into the contents of the games I own, and now I can do so for DS games~

@zoogie Did you ever get this working? I ask because I have the same problem where it gives me the "an error has occurred" screen. I'm also using A9LH sysNAND. Apart from that, I'm using cakesFW, though I don't know any more specific information than that such as A9LH version or cakes revision, if that matters.

 

[zoogie]

First and foremost, thank you for this, shutterbug! I enjoy looking into the contents of the games I own, and now I can do so for DS games~

@zoogie Did you ever get this working? I ask because I have the same problem where it gives me the "an error has occurred" screen. I'm also using A9LH sysNAND. Apart from that, I'm using cakesFW, though I don't know any more specific information than that such as A9LH version or cakes revision, if that matters.

Yeah I did. Use luma3ds and make sure you're running on > 9.2.

 

[nooby89]

Why we need to put the cardridge BEFORE use the DSiWare ?

 

[Deleted User]

Yeah I did. Use luma3ds and make sure you're running on > 9.2.

Ah, so you have to use Luma... I getcha. Thank you!

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Why we need to put the cardridge BEFORE use the DSiWare ?

It currently does not work for TWL carts (DSi Enhanced games, They will have "TWL" in their product codes on the cartridge label instead of NTR). You also can not eject a cart and dump another. You will need to reboot into it a second time since ejecting a cart powers down the slot and currently we can not get around that without mods to the slot or external hardware.

Make sure the cart you want to dump is inserted BEFORE you boot wooddumper. If you boot it with the slot empty there's no way to power the slot on since it will power down if there's nothing inserted when TWL_FIRM boots.

You can also only dump a rom once. It fails on a second card init (probably why it fails to init TWL carts since it has to init those twice)

Bold mine.

 

[TarkinMX]

No, I think how it worked was he grabbed the stock arm7 used in newer/current devkitarm and used that (because current devkitarm has SD access available out of the box). I think he did have to modify arm9 to use it correctly though. Not sure if he had to compile the arm7 bin or not. He can do some programming though so he might have done some changes to arm7 binary. As I said I don't know all the details on how it went down. Ask shutterbug this, not me. I'm not a programmer.

@shutterbug2000, If this is the case then can someone do this with YSMenu?

 

[hacksn5s4]

this gave me a bad rom randomly and i opened it in an emulator and it was courrpted and ended up crashing the emulator

 

[RocketRobz]

this gave me a bad rom randomly and i opened it in an emulator and it was courrpted and ended up crashing the emulator

Make sure the cartridge is inserted correctly, and that you can see the game's icon in the HOME Menu.

 

[loco365]

Why we need to put the cardridge BEFORE use the DSiWare ?

Bold mine.

To improve on this answer, it's because the DSi and newer do not allow on-the-fly cartridge swapping. If you remove the cartridge after inserted and the software started, it will not read anything else until you boot back to the main menu.

 

[bobfacemoo]

Can this be used to dump my R4 SDHC card? Can't dump it on DSLite cause it won't connect to my wifi settings. Trying to get a launcher to work on my 3DS with it and a dump would be really nice to have. Tried it and got the red text "Dump failed"

 

[Shadow#1]

well, I can get them legally now

no it's illegal to dump this way

 

[nooby89]

So which method dump is legal ?

 

[Shadow#1]

So which method dump is legal ?

Legally there isn't one

 

[nooby89]

Oh.

 

[Swiftloke]

no it's illegal to dump this way

Legally there isn't one

And what law makes you think that?
Dumping your own ROMs are perfectly legal.

 

[Shadow#1]

The problem is that part the law has not been flushed out properly and probably never will be

 

[Shadow#1]

And what law makes you think that?
Dumping your own ROMs are perfectly legal.

Yes but Nintendo or anyother company has not provided any tools to do is it's illegal

 

[Swiftloke]

Yes but Nintendo or anyother company has not provided any tools to do is it's illegal

Again, how does Ninty not releasing tools to dump games make it illegal? I don't understand your thought process here

 

[Shadow#1]

Again, how does Ninty not releasing tools to dump games make it illegal? I don't understand your thought process here

No unauthorized modification

 

[Swiftloke]

No unauthorized modification

That's breaking a ToS, not the law.