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  • rvtr
    mfw maxmod on pre-calico libnds DESTROYS NAND reading/writing. Not entirely sure what happens, but maxmod causes FIFO messages to be lost, or for ARM7 to get stuck endlessly waiting on an interrupt. Not too noticeable if you're handling a couple sectors, but do a couple megabytes and you will experience lockups.... might be in the middle of a NAND restore, updating the bootloader, etc
    rvtr
    l love job searches! I love the despair of no responses! I love the defeat!
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    JuanMena
    Wait for the "You're overqualified" and the "You're not qualified" limbo.
    Then the "don't come dressed up like that" (with a suit).
    Then the "youll be with people that hasn't finished highschool, this isn't your place".

    And then you're 30 years old.
    rvtr
    So sad seeing people that worked on some big project, got shut down by nintendo, then had their name forever dragged through the mud because "they're a liar".
    rvtr
    Centro doesn't even know what's coming very soon lol.
    rvtr
    rvtr
    Now how long until Centro starts pulling their usual reposting research and being a clueless idiot crap?
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    rvtr
    Thick DSi arrived. I'd like to avoid using gbatemp due to certain users and attitudes, but I'll pop in later to give updates if I make any progress recreating whatever this is... you can guess (:
    Anyways bye for now, please use the contacts linked on my website rather than PMs. Cheers!
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    Great guess! I very much appreciate your post, the links have been very helpful in setting things up.

    I've been able to move the board to a development unit (and I found some necessary wires not listed on the pinout...) and start making a schematic for the capture card PCB. All on paper though as I've been lazy with learning to use kicad. Will do soon though lol.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    I know almost nothing about capture cards, but I love to tinker, I work with electronics, and I'm not half bad at soldering so I'm sure I'll get something working in not too long... assuming mcdonalds finally hires me so I have money to waste :P
    KIlly728
    KIlly728
    I'd love to know any and all progress you make. Best of luck.
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    Didn't do anything for a couple weeks but I'm back. Working on TAD installing for fixing firmware, and I've made a HWInfo recovery test. This will search for HWInfo in 3 common offsets I know of, or search the entire twl_main. This is super important since HWInfo is the only per-console file we can't recreate.
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    rvtr
    Gone from "I might be ripping off TWL EVA" to "I'm completely ripping off TWL EVA."
    rvtr
    rvtr
    My todo list for this is so long. I didn't realize how many things are actually needed for the firmware not to crash...
    rvtr
    Started working on a new project! Nice handy DSi NAND repair tool. It should fix all bricks, and create a working NAND from absolutely nothing if needed. I still have tons to do but yay, maybe finally bricks and lost NAND backups will be a thing of the past.

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    rvtr
    Give me the first 5 bytes of your DSi ConsoleID (eg. 0820225925102138) and I can tell you the manufacturing date within a few months, the initial firmware version, and maybe the versions of factory tools used as well.

    This is a challenge.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    @Sono sadly the 6th number seems completely random, but thank you anyways.

    My guess is...
    - BOARD tests would have started between 2009/01 and 2009/02, and the version is v1.5
    - The initial firmware won't show up, but it will be pre-1.3, and probably v1.2.

    - IMPORT (assuming EUR) will be v1.1. If USA it will be v1.0
    - WRFU will be v0.60
    - MIC will be v2.1
    - FINAL will be v1.5
    rvtr
    rvtr
    - AGING will be v1.0
    - TP_CAL will be v2.0

    You can confirm this by checking nand:/sys/log/product.log

    Example:
    0,IMPORT,START,1.2, , , ,Sys=1.4.0 Pre=T1,

    The log format is <line type>,<tool type>,<tool version>, and then the rest is whatever other garbage (dates, debug info). You can see the initial firmware is v1.4.0 here. If that info doesn't exist then the firmware is pre-1.3.
    Xdqwerty
    Xdqwerty
    @Sono
    If you are using a SD card adapter, those can go bad. Even though your computer can see it, something about the fault prevents it some working on the DSi.
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    I only have micro sd card adapters and not normal sd cards, and I dont like asking my parents to buy me one
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    rvtr
    I'm tired of saying it. These are called the freakleaks. The server is called freakleak. The leak info document is called freakleak. All the people in the know call it freakleak. BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF IF YOU CALL IT THE GAME FREAK LEAKS OR THE TERALEAKS!
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    We'll only ever know the source as "GameFreakOUT"

    Tons of interesting stuff. Freakleak has been able to compile a handful of prototypes and tons of people are pouring over the assets. There have been builds where there isn't even a GUI resembling anything like final, just a bunch of flat colored boxes with some text. No sprites either. Really amazing stuff.
    rvtr
    rvtr
    We will have every game and every commit, from start to end of development. It's crazy to think about that.
    MaxiBash
    MaxiBash
    It's insane how much the term "gigaleak" has been engraved into people's minds to the point that literally every leak now has this in their title. I despise this word since it doesn't describe at all when the leak happened or what's in it, other than that it's gigabytes or terabytes.

    The best part? The person that brought this word into existence hates it now as well.
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    Today will go down in history.
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    AncientBoi
    AncientBoi
    :huh:
    x65943
    x65943
    @sarkwalvein during the split between Julian and Gregorian calendars in Europe there were many double up days before all of Europe got on board

    And for religious purposes Eastern Europe still uses the Julian calendar, meaning in a little under 2 weeks that exact date will happen again

    And yeah growing up we had both calendars at home - they hand them out at orthodox church
    sarkwalvein
    sarkwalvein
    Yes, I know about the Orthodox Church using different dates because of the Gregorian Calendar shift... but I didn't know they kept two calendars with different current dates, I just expected they moved the festivities some 2 weeks later into the current calendar. The more you know.
    rvtr
    I hate passing arguments with SSH. Why can't programs I need to run just work and why do I have to do stupid environment variable stuff aaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhh
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    AncientBoi
    AncientBoi
    uh, Because it's apart of the "Programing Life" ? :mellow:

    People seem to forget. Computers are dumb machines, and it all depends on what the programmer attempts to make it do things for you. Otherwise it's spits out Garbage. My Lotus teacher said GIGO.
    Which says "Garbage In, Garbage Out. :)
    rvtr
    rvtr
    It's not just computers being dumb. For safety reasons they make it so in-line SSH commands don't go through your .profile and .bashrc files. I had no idea this was the case, and for some reason trying to use those files in my inline SSH didn't work. In the end I had to include setting environment variables in the SSH which was awful.
    rvtr
    rvtr
    I also had no idea the tool I was using did SSH in-line, so I was trying to figure out why programs couldn't be detected by just normally logging in and using commands one by one. Completely the wrong idea.
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