13 years.

The original DS was released in 2004, and to this day, no hax for Download Play had been made.

Until now.

Gericom found an exploit in DS Download Station, allowing us to run any homebrew we'd like over DS download play.

Source code for dspatch: https://github.com/Gericom/dspatch

Enjoy!

Credits:
Exploit: shutterbug2000, Gericom, and Apache Thunder
Graphics: Jaames, Robz8

And if you want to load unsupported flashcarts on a DSi:

Yes.
Here's Apache Thunder's flashcard launchers edited for HaxxStation. @shutterbug2000 should put this in the first post.
https://www.odrive.com/s/23b9f39c-ae15-4c1b-8ff7-64344fa6f2d2-5939fc7f

 

[NightScript]

*4 MB

/me facepalms because there was a post right above you that said that she made a mistake.

 

[seb5049]

Is it possible to send over both an emulator and a ROM? Most popular DS homebrew apps are emulators, and it would be a shame if we can't use them with this exploit.

 

[tozevleal]

Is it possible to send over both an emulator and a ROM? Most popular DS homebrew apps are emulators, and it would be a shame if we can't use them with this exploit.

Well its kinda possible if you package all in into a NDS file (emulator+rom) and its less than 4mb

/me facepalms because there was a post right above you that said that she made a mistake.

DID YOU ASSUME MY GENDER!?!?!??! :V JK

 

[seb5049]

Well its kinda possible if you package all in into a NDS file (emulator+rom) and its less than 4mb

How hard would it be to do that?

 

[tozevleal]

How hard would that be to do?

I don't have a lot of experience with NDS coding... probably the OP of this thread could explain how he done to make Grand dad working on the NDS ... probably he used just the NES emulator with the grand dad romhack

 

[Van28]

Thanks for the protip!
I selected the unoficial bootstrap and now it works! (with the bonus Rainbow notification LED )

How did you make it work?

 

[ItsMetaKnight]

Even if you find a 4 MB commerical rom, it wouldn't work.
There's only 4 MB for both the game rom and the game's working memory combined.

Usual DS Download Play games are no more than 3 MB, so the game still has 1 MB of RAM to actually work with.
So even if you find a 3 MB rom, it must be one that uses less than 1 MB of RAM.
This is only true for certain homebrew and Nintendo's multiboot demos, such as the demos from Nintendo Channel on the Wii.

 

[PrincessLillie]

Even if you find a 4 MB commerical rom, it wouldn't work.
There's only 4 MB for both the game rom and the game's working memory combined.

Usual DS Download Play games are no more than 3 MB, so the game still has 1 MB of RAM to actually work with.
So even if you find a 3 MB rom, it must be one that uses less than 1 MB of RAM.
This is only true for certain homebrew and Nintendo's multiboot demos, such as the demos from Nintendo Channel on the Wii.

So basically, there's finally a way to run those Nintendo Channel ROMs again! (Plus homebrew and any 3 MB ROMs.)

 

[ItsMetaKnight]

So basically, there's finally a way to run those Nintendo Channel ROMs again! (Plus homebrew and any 3 MB ROMs.)

Yep!

 

[RocketRobz]

anyone got it working with twl loader im using 0.2.0 bootstrap but i can't get it to work does it take long to load?

You'll need an older TWLoader version (don't know the exact version).
You'll need a flashcard for now.

 

[PrincessLillie]

Its 4Mb (my mistake)
But yeah... probably you can boot any NDS rom with 4mb or less (most of them is homebrew and demos)

Edit: YES IT WORKS! But remember go to the settings menu (on twloader) and set the bootstrap has unofficial

Which version of TWLoader are you on? As Robz8 says,

You'll need an older TWLoader version (don't know the exact version).

 

[Gericom]

I don't have a lot of experience with NDS coding... probably the OP of this thread could explain how he done to make Grand dad working on the NDS ... probably he used just the NES emulator with the grand dad romhack

It was me who made that rom. I already made it some time ago as a joke. I simply build nesds with the rom in the arm9. Since one can't use nitrofs or dldi, and this didn't use that, it was perfect to demonstrate with.

 

[PrincessLillie]

How would I use dspatch.exe?

 

[tozevleal]

How did you make it work?

Complete tutorial to make this to Haxxstation to work on TWLoader:

What you need:
DSPatch
Download Station Volume 1 (USA) - i will not give any links of this because its copyrighted content... try to find it


Step1: Compile your Custom Haxxstation with your Homebrew app do you want to use
-Go to your PC and download DSPatch
-Extract the Zip file to somewhere easy to reach with your windows terminal (something like this C:/dspatch/) but you can extract to your desktop if you want
-Open CMD (aka terminal/console/shell)
-Navigate to the directory you extracted (use like this "cd NAMEOFTHEFOLDER") ...btw be sure if your folders don't have spaces on the name
-Now just use this command "dspatch download_station.nds rom_to_boot.nds result.nds"
-Its an example what you should do

Step2: Copy the "result.nds" to your 3ds SDCard
-Just grab your result.nds to your SD:/roms/nds/

Step3: Configure and run from TWLoader
-Open TWLoader
-Go to the configuration Icon
-Press R
-Set Bootstrap has unOfficial
-Press Y to update your bootstrap
-Go back
-Run your custom download statation (aka HaxxStation)

(Have fun )
--------------

It was me who made that rom. I already made it some time ago as a joke. I simply build nesds with the rom in the arm9. Since one can't use nitrofs or dldi, and this didn't use that, it was perfect to demonstrate with.

There some place we can download Grand dad NDS? Or there are some "copyright issues" ? :S

 

[PrincessLillie]

It was me who made that rom. I already made it some time ago as a joke. I simply build nesds with the rom in the arm9. Since one can't use nitrofs or dldi, and this didn't use that, it was perfect to demonstrate with.

Okay, how would we build NDS files like that?

Complete tutorial to make this to Haxxstation to work on TWLoader:

What you need:
DSPatch
Download Station Volume 1 (USA) - i will not give any links of this because its copyrighted content... but try to find it


Step1: Compile your Custom Haxxstation with your Homebrew app do you want to use
-Go to your PC and download DSPatch
-Extract the Zip file to somewhere easy to reach with your windows terminal (something like this C:/dspatch/) but you can extract to your desktop if you want
-Open CMD (aka terminal/console/shell)
-Navigate to the directory you extracted (use like this "cd NAMEOFTHEFOLDER") ...btw be sure if your folders don't have spaces on the name
-Now just use this command "dspatch download_station.nds rom_to_boot.nds result.nds"
-Its an example what you should do

Step2: Copy the "result.nds" to your 3ds SDCard
-Just grab your result.nds to your SD:/roms/nds/

Step3: Configure and run from TWLoader
-Open TWLoader
-Go to the configuration Icon
-Press R
-Set Bootstrap has unOfficial
-Press Y to update your bootstrap
-Go back
-Run your custom download statation (aka HaxxStation)

(Have fun )
--------------


There some place we can download Grand dad NDS? Or there are some "copyright issues" ? :S

Thanks! I will try soon!

 

[Maxouille]

Work for 3DS ?

 

[tozevleal]

Work for 3DS ?

Yes! With Flashcard or TWLoader

 

[Maxouille]

Yes! With Flashcard or TWLoader

thanks i will test it, the DS was my first systeme :') but i have sold it

 

[WiiHomebrew+Snes]

13 years.

The original DS was released in 2004, and to this day, no hax for Download Play had been made.

Until now.

Gericom found an exploit in DS Download Station, allowing us to run any homebrew we'd like over DS download play.

Enjoy!

Credits:
Exploit: shutterbug2000, Gericom, and Apache Thunder
Graphics: Jaames, Robz8

And if you want to load unsupported flashcarts on a DSi:

This is really cool! I tried this out, and I have a quick question: can I insert multiple roms into one download station?

 

[RocketRobz]

This is really cool! I tried this out, and I have a quick question: can I insert multiple roms into one download station?

Not as of right now.