Hacking Acekard on DSi

acekard · Nov 17, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dge0VGOugQ

This is a lab work, it works ONLY in LAB. Even though we can go this far, it is almost impossible to make a commercial product.
There is a major problem that can't be resolved, at least for now.It seems DSi did many sanity checks to make sure there is no more fcards.
we will keep researching and good luck to all.

btw: we assume there are more than one modes on DSi, we still haven't found any way to access the SD card slot in origin DS mode.
www.acekard.com

JPdensetsu · Nov 17, 2008

This is cool, on DSi

Later, I think there will be a hack

UltraMagnus · Nov 17, 2008

hah, I knew you guys would do it

would you mind giving any more details of exactly what the problem is though?

Annaaaaa · Nov 17, 2008

good news^^

maybe im gonna save up now

Bri · Nov 17, 2008

How is that good news?

QUOTE said:
This is a lab work, it works ONLY in LAB.

Even though we can go this far, it is almost impossible to make a commercial product.

There is a major problem that can't be resolved, at least for now.

It seems DSi did many sanity checks to make sure there is no more fcards.

-Bri

Joey90 · Nov 17, 2008

w00t!

I just really hope that you can replicate that in a commercial product at some point

Are you allowed to tell us how you did it or is it a trade secret

P.S. How awesome that the Acekard is the first to be working on DSi (AFAIK)

TrolleyDave · Nov 17, 2008

Is it a standard Acekard or has it had changes made to it to get it to boot up?

Maikel Steneker · Nov 17, 2008

That's great! And so fast as well!

I wonder what the problems preventing you from making a commercial product are...

jmonee84 · Nov 17, 2008

I'll bet it requires official Nintendo firmware or something else that is copyrighted. The problem is likely to be a legal one rather than a practical one.

denyfate · Nov 17, 2008

this is pretty quick for acekard to get it to work on DSi!!

probably still some compatibility issues...

DjoeN · Nov 17, 2008

Nice, now, how abou a SD hack so we don't need to buy Flashcards anymore

Ow, right those flashcard makers prolly will never tell once the found it, then there out of business

So the will search for a flashcard solution anyway, either way, it all benefits homebrew makers (yeah and also pirates)

raulpica · Nov 17, 2008

They probably had to hack the DSi internally, that would explain why they couldn't create a commercial product from it...

skarthebloodchild · Nov 17, 2008

What i believe is a dark_alex like coder for ds will make a custom firmware and load roms from sd slot without any flashcards.
A matter of time.

TrolleyDave · Nov 17, 2008

raulpica said:
They probably had to hack the DSi internally, that would explain why they couldn't create a commercial product from it...

That's what I'm thinking. They've either changed the internals of the cart or changed the internals of the DSi. Maybe in the future we'll see an AK mod-chip!

QUOTE(skarthebloodchild @ Nov 17 2008, 08:22 PM) What i believe is a dark_alex like coder for ds will make a custom firmware and load roms from sd slot without any flashcards.
A matter of time.

I wouldn't hold your hopes up. If the firmware is encrypted then it might be impossible.

Maz7006 · Nov 17, 2008

Bri said:
How is that good news?

QUOTE said:

This is a lab work, it works ONLY in LAB.

Even though we can go this far, it is almost impossible to make a commercial product.

There is a major problem that can't be resolved, at least for now.

It seems DSi did many sanity checks to make sure there is no more fcards.

Click to expand...

-Bri

Errrmmm... Nicely put, however i think we should keep or hopes up.

Law · Nov 17, 2008

Maz7006 said:
Errrmmm... Nicely put, however i think we should keep or hopes up.

Don't expect too much, then.

And don't expect any breaking news soon, either.

cory1492 · Nov 17, 2008

Nice work AceKard

(though from the vid I see they made sure the boot method wasn't illustrated lab or otherwise, regardless of which way you turn the DS.)
---snip---
Here. Read the comments, looking specifically for the one from the guy who pretty much made (if not directly, set the groundwork - including slot1 trickery) all current methods of booting possible. As I have guessed before, it's most likely not all products elected to emulate a real DS card 'to spec', or the specs were unknown when designing the cards so they went with 'whatever works'. Also speculation on my part, but not too many manufacturers elect to make their products forward compatible via a software update (supercard being one of very few) even where possible, as all it does is cut sales of 'next gen' new products.

DaMummy · Nov 19, 2008

so once acekard gets this done, will the akrpg and ak2 just require a firmware upgrade to work it, or will it be a whole nother hardware thing, like a new acekard?

TrolleyDave · Nov 19, 2008

DaMummy said:
so once acekard gets this done, will the akrpg and ak2 just require a firmware upgrade to work it, or will it be a whole nother hardware thing, like a new acekard?

They haven't said yet but I'm guessing they've modded the DSi itself because they said it can only be done in the lab.

solarsun · Nov 19, 2008

I'm so glad when I chose AceKard as my slot1. Hopefully they can figure out what is going on and all I'd need is a firmware update on my sd card to get it to run on my dsi (when I get one stateside).

I noticed how it boots is slightly different then at least my games n music used to. I figured if anybody could do it acekard could!

Hacking Acekard on DSi

Active Member

Well-Known Member

hic sunt dracones

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Not around any more

Philosolosophising

M3 Fanboy

Active Member

Member

Captain Haddock!

With your drill, thrust to the sky!

Keep It Old School

Philosolosophising

iSEXu

rip ninjacat that zarcon made me

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Philosolosophising

Member

Similar threads

Popular threads in this forum