Why do you need a break out board to read or write official cartridges? You can just do it via ADB using the Evercade itself as a reader/writer
Sure I can do that, but not everyone has the understanding how to do it and instead of an elitist attitude about it I think it makes more sense to me to offer people here other solutions within their skill set.Why do you need a break out board to read or write official cartridges? You can just do it via ADB using the Evercade itself as a reader/writer
Bottom line. I don't want to argue with you or anyone. I just want to help those who need help - preferably in a way that won't intimidate them or complicate the steps enough to make them give up. The more people we get involved in general the more help or at least ideas will be brought to the table to make "projects" like this bigger and better for everyone. Isn't that the point of communities like this, after all?esmith13, there are some GUIs for ADB file transfer, but you're right that ADB still needs to be enabled and it's likely not straight forward for many. I didn't mean to appear elitist, just wanted to say that it's pretty straight forward technically.
If you're willing to stay on FW 1.2.0 then adb is already there.Anyone care to share anything about connecting the Evercade through ADB to read/write to the carts, are there any guides or info out there that anyone knows about? I'm still torn about trashing a cart or making a reader/writer as my soldering is far from good and I don't have any of the bits without buying them...
Those steps would work as a basic framework of the understanding required but the byte code editing is specific to FW 1.0. Since 1.2.0 has an available everpatcher (to enable usb-host mode) and adb already as part of the OS, there is no benefit in reverting to 1.0 to follow those steps to the letter.I already found this on Github BTW but I'm a bit nervous about it and nor sure if it works on newer FW
https://github.com/strager/evercade-hacking
No one is going to provide dumps of new, purchasable carts.I'm not sure I have to reply here. But I'm thinking about buying an EverSD,
Just so I can keep my original cartridges in new/sealed condition.
But did anybody already dumped the original cartridges?
So I can just put on the dumped cartridge on the EverSD and play it from there?
Is there a GBA reader that is pre-wired or some kind of breakout board? I've tried soldering wires to a GBA connector, but honestly, my eyes are not up to it and my hands are too shaky for such small work. I already have a MicroSD breakout for the other end of the cable.Oh dumping it would be easier, just saying that you would have to dump your own since someone providing it to you from their carts would be a legal no-no.
I'm sure you'll do fine making a cart reader. It's just 8 wires from on end to the other and isn't even fine pitch work.
How are you accessing the internal filesystem?Blaze stores those changes (and the FW 2.x files for cartridges #1-#14 which didn't have them) on the internal file system of each device in /opt/legacy/
I had thought about sharing them but I'm concerned that there could be legal issues with that and have decided not to.
The contents are just text files (*.json) and artwork (*.png) but I honestly have no clue if they can have a trademark or other ownership of art and descriptions or if the .jsons constitute code or just raw data. Just not worth the risk, sorry.