Hacking R4i-B9S flashcart: tested and impression

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I can tell by the file size that it didn't work :P
I haven't been able to follow this thread as tightly as I was before. I've been busy harassing the Ace3DS team instead.
I can only do so much harassing.
 

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Ok, so does that mean a non-B9S card can be flashed with ntrboot now? And is it reversible without having CFW beforehand?
The non-B9S cards have to have the B9S card's backup flashed to them. I don't know if it's reversible without CFW though, it would depend on if there's a version of NTRBoot flasher that can work on stock systems.
 

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I personally wouldn't buy from r4i-sdhc their cards always have a "time bomb" where they expire after a period of time with their DS mode flashcards which seems too sketchy imo it just turns me off from even bothering to buy from them again i wouldn't even be surprised if this new card also has some type of time bomb as well.
 
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There are a couple different versions of the flasher in the thread. There's one with a post specifying it ignored checking for a matchig NOR. Try using that one if you haven't already.
I am finding like 3 different results in 2 different threads, please help me out here and quote the right post(s)
 

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There are a couple different versions of the flasher in the thread. There's one with a post specifying it ignored checking for a matchig NOR. Try using that one if you haven't already.
I think my cart is the issue.
I restored the backup from this thread and said that it "Restored successfully." But dumping a new backup after restoring the previous one only resulted in a backup made up of "FF"
 

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I am finding like 3 different results in 2 different threads, please help me out here and quote the right post(s)

I've got the R4i 3DS WiFi RTS (not the R4i B9S) but I've restored mine back and fourth a couple of times now, just to keep things simple I made a zip (preserving paths) containing three versions of the restore procedure:
  • Restoring to/as R4i 3DS WiFi RTS (my backup.bin and @AngelSL ntrboot_flasher with additional nor sanity checks removed if your nor is trashed/bricked)
  • Restoring to/as R4i B9S in nds mode (@pandavova nds backup.bin and @AngelSL ntrboot_flasher with additional nor sanity checks removed if your nor is trashed/bricked)
  • Restoring to/as R4i B9S in ntrboot mode (@pandavova ntrboot backup.bin and @AngelSL ntrboot_flasher with additional nor sanity checks removed if your nor is trashed/bricked)

I don't know how to make it any easier :(

One gotcha here is that (at least for me) there are only 7 chunks restored, and when restored to/as R4i B9S ntrboot the cart is not registering as inserted if your device is booted "normally", but loads up as it should using sleep/magnet. When restored as R4i 3DS WiFi RTS or R4i B9S nds it should register (at least for me) as Bomberman*

The zip is larger than 2mb so I couldn't upload it, here is a link
 
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I've got the R4i 3DS WiFi RTS (not the R4i B9S) but I've restored mine back and fourth a couple of times now, just to keep things simple I made a zip (preserving paths) containing three versions of the restore procedure:
  • Restoring to/as R4i 3DS WiFi RTS (my backup.bin and @AngelSL ntrboot_flasher with additional nor sanity checks removed if your nor is trashed/bricked)
  • Restoring to/as R4i B9S in nds mode (@pandavova nds backup.bin and @AngelSL ntrboot_flasher with additional nor sanity checks removed if your nor is trashed/bricked)
  • Restoring to/as R4i B9S in ntrboot mode (@pandavova ntrboot backup.bin and @AngelSL ntrboot_flasher with additional nor sanity checks removed if your nor is trashed/bricked)

I don't know how to make it any easier :(

One gotcha here is that (at least for me) there are only 7 chunks restored, and when restored to/as R4i B9S ntrboot the cart is not registering as inserted if your device is booted "normally", but loads up as it should using sleep/magnet. When restored as R4i 3DS WiFi RTS or R4i B9S nds it should register (at least for me) as Bomberman*

The zip is larger than 2mb so I couldn't upload it, here is a link
Yeah my cart looks like the issue. I restored those and got backups with "FF" again.
My cart is the "NDS" version of the cart, although it is using the Bomberman header
 

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Which cart, exactly, do you have? R4i ...?
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That is something older I guess... if someone having the same cart (stock) could dump their flash (using the ntrboot_flasher builds from this thread) then you could try restoring that instead?

Unless there are some other differencies between that cart and the R4i B9S/R4i 3DS WiFi RTS? Perhaps @Kitlith et. al. knows more about that?
 

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That is something older I guess... if someone having the same cart (stock) could dump their flash (using the ntrboot_flasher builds from this thread) then you could try restoring that instead?

Unless there are some other differencies between that cart and the R4i B9S/R4i 3DS WiFi RTS? Perhaps @Kitlith et. al. knows more about that?
Well I’ve opened my cart and took a few pictures of it
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