Hacking Can we flash cardridges? (answer in technical way wanted)

[Deleted User]

No we cannot write to gamecards that have already been written to. End of thread.

 

[mohdsaher]

yes cia do that but we are talking about the cartridges

 

[Joom]

CIA'S save in EXTDATA on the Sdcard

Not entirely.
https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Savegames

 

[adrifcastr]

No we cannot write to gamecards that have already been written to. End of thread.

yeah actually googled ROM Read Only Memory

 

[Ryccardo]

Card1 games have a ROM and (optionally) an EEPROM for saves, so no
Card2 games have a NAND and some way of write-protecting the main game section (which allegedly is not in hardware: someone managed to brick one - I think it was yls8 since he made the 1st save manager)

No since you can't use them without a PANDA and an IS-CTR Unit.

CCI is a synonim of .3DS
Of course, they can be retail, dev, or unsigned

 

[Joom]

yeah actually googled ROM Read Only Memory

Yeah, I said this on the first page.

 

[adrifcastr]

Card1 games have a ROM and (optionally) an EEPROM for saves, so no
Card2 games have a NAND and some way of write-protecting the main game section (which allegedly is not in hardware: someone managed to brick one - I think it was yls8 since he made the 1st save manager)


CCI is a synonim of .3DS
Of course, they can be retail, dev, or unsigned

I've meant that you can directly launch a CCI with an IS-CTR unit without the need of a cardridge

 

[mohdsaher]

ok so after doing a little research I found these 2 gbatemp threads

doing a quick search on google on how to get a blank 3ds cartridge gave this https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-do-you-make-a-blank-ds-cartridge.331120/


which then lead me to this https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-do-you-make-a-blank-ds-cartridge.331120/


obviously this is for a ds cart this may work on a 3ds (maybe)

 

[Ryccardo]

I've meant that you can directly launch a CCI with an IS-CTR unit without the need of a cardridge

Yep, you can actually open it to upgrade the ram (2 gb stock), the extra over a real console is used to hold a rom for slot1 emulation
Yes, official usb loader

 

[Searinox]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the case of say, CARD2 games like Pokemon XY and ORAS where the save file is on the same chip as the game, isn't the entire chip rewritable?

 

[migles]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the case of say, CARD2 games like Pokemon XY and ORAS where the save file is on the same chip as the game, isn't the entire chip rewritable?

Card1 games have a ROM and (optionally) an EEPROM for saves, so no
Card2 games have a NAND and some way of write-protecting the main game section (which allegedly is not in hardware: someone managed to brick one - I think it was yls8 since he made the 1st save manager)


CCI is a synonim of .3DS
Of course, they can be retail, dev, or unsigned

 

[DinohScene]

No, no matter what, all games on GB, GBA, DS, 3DS, PSvita, Switch, N64 and below that come on cartridges are READ ONLY Memory.
This means that it can only READ and not write.

Why else would flashcards exist?

 

[mohdsaher]

after trying to search on google I so far found no way to buy a blank ds or 3ds game cart

but if we could get one we could possible flash a game on it as they are most likely Chinese copies that don't have any write protection on them

 

[Joom]

after trying to search on google I so far found no way to buy a blank ds or 3ds game cart

but if we could get one we could possible flash a game on it as they are most likely Chinese copies that don't have any write protection on them

They're called flashcarts.

 

[Searinox]

Could be that the read/write requests made available at firmware level will honor refusal to write into space they're not supposed to write to but that more "raw" requests can simply ignore this. If it's the firmware enforcing it, it can be circumvented with a bootloader app unless it's in the console hardware's behavior itself. Then a third party save tool might be made to turn CARD2 games into one-title reflashable carts, if reprogrammed to.

 

[mohdsaher]

kind of off topic but while searching on sites for 3ds blank cartridges I found this

http://www.dhgate.com/product/game-...tendo/382265851.html#s1-0-1b;searl|3834703107

this may be very helpful for some people.

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also found this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ori...32707727381.html?spm=2114.40010708.4.2.szLpLL

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I think the only way to find fake game carts that may allow you to write to it

I found this which looks too good to be true http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-Sun...577922?hash=item237ec33602:g:cH0AAOSw3v5YskWB

after reading more in this listing I see it is a combo for $10 AND NEW it and the item is located in dsghd, United States

whatever that is anyway I am almost 100% sure this is either a scam listing or a fake game.

maybe this may work.

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again this maybe completely false info but again it may work

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and after opening the sellers page the seller is based in china

 

[Joom]

Uh, they're just selling two different legitimate cartridges. What made you think that they managed to put the games on one cartridge?

 

[mohdsaher]

they are selling 2 games two cartridges although they look fake as they provide no info about it and it is apparently located in
dsghd, United States??? seller is also located in china but they are saying the games are shipped from the us.

 

[adrifcastr]

Uh, they're just selling two different legitimate cartridges. What made you think that they managed to put the games on one cartridge?

He joined last month. and he also had no clue what a cci is, don't expect people to not-be-noobish

 

[Bedel]

He joined last month. and he also had no clue what a cci is, don't expect people to not-be-noobish

What gives you the right to say that? He's trying to help, and maybe he know more than you do.
Coming again to the topic, you probably can with some type of cartriges, but most of them are ROM, so...