Does anyone know if the DS Lite had any hardware revisions... or is any DS Lite a candidate donor for another?
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That sounds interesting enough that I may investigate out of curiosity!I remember reading about different firmware versions, that you could check by entering a pictochat room, removing the cartridge from the slot and search up for the color code displayed to know what revision do you have, but I don't have any first hand experience
Ok, I've found the source https://web.archive.org/web/20151101030145/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_homebrew
It's a pretty old article, and it's not on the current page...
Chinese and Korean versions have different firmware language options.
iQue DS games are region locked, but roms can be patched to get around that.
That thread was interesting to read. Thanks.https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-how-to-check-your-firmware-version-on-ds-ds-lite.456211/
You also have this tutorial
Refer to the thread above. It explains a bit: There seems to be a real hardware revision for the DS-"Phat". I never heard of anything like this for the DS-Lite (that does not mean much…).I wonder if the firmware revisions represent any changes to the actual hardware, or if any physical parts can be moved from one system to another.
Likewise, it seems very convenient that the colour is consistent... it's not like a crash where the system would beleft in some random state.I wonder if this behavior (crash to a different color for each firmware) was chosen purposely by Nintendo or it was just a side effect...
Now that you've mentioned it, it's still my main DS Lite and still working just fine since that day. It's actually rather impressive and kind of odd that The Big N put the firmware into the removable Wifi chip, but damn does it come in handy for people like me.@Lilith Valentine even proved that the WiFi chip (containing the firmware) can be hotswapped on DS-Lite consoles to revive a firmware bricked unit. Very short but good blog entry!
There are multiple types of LCDs they use on the Lite screens. I know my glossy black lite always had HORRIBLE ghosting to the point which Mario would just be a blob with a huge back ball around him in NSMB, but all of my matte Lites are pretty good with it. It seems to be a complete gamble whether a screen you get has bad ghosting or not though, because problems with it have been reported on almost every model.
Should probably start my own thread for this, but this kinda crosses into my issue.
I have good reason to think my DSLite has been hacked. (Don't want to go into details but will when required.) It could be the European version. Been awhile since I did the picto test.
I don't know whether it's the firmware, the wifi chip or the flash card (Heh, it's an old Cyclos EDGE card) or the bios?? ( I didn't know the DS had a 'bios' or is this the same thing as the firmware? or even the micro sd card. I've thought it could have something to do with Moonshell as I've used it occasionally and remember it doing fairly lengthy 'updates' or 'optimizations' a few times.
I have a EZ 3-in-1 slot 2 cart flashed with a GBA rom and nothing happens when I'm using it exclusively. As I would expect as the wifi module and all DS hardware is disabled in GBA mode.
So basically two things;
- I need to flash every thing flashable back to stock , the firmware. the bios? and the wifi module if possible (can the mac address be changed somehow?)
- Was going to ask about removing the wifi chip before someone saying that's where the firmware is held! Thought it might be boot malware preempting the boot cycle unless it could execute when it wouldn't boot when I removed the wifi chip.
I've had this guy for over 10 years and would hate to part with it as other than this hack its in okay shape as fewer and fewer Lites are nowadays.
Will wait for comments to elaborate further.
Thx for any and you can give.
(edited re spelling)
I may be overlooking it but... Did you say what the actual problem is? What makes you think something needs fixing?
I swapped parts from many DS lites and they always worked perfectly fine with each other