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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Not yet, but I don't believe it would be too hard to make one. I believe they read from the save eeprom on startup so they know whether to give you the starting cut-scene or not, so in theory I could just inject some code there to then load the flashcart kernel, bypassing the anti-piracy of the...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    I was thinking about it the other way around, you get the flashcart that just works and the Micro SD card was the optional accessory. eMMC's main benefits would be that it's much faster and less likely to break on you, and would hopefully stop AliExpress sellers from including those junk Micro...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    The way I would try to do it would break down into a few core things to be implemented or found out, all of which has already been done before, both in the NDS scene and elsewhere. The core things required are: Figuring out which ROMs/programs actually use the WiFi capabilities, what the...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Yeah, it's essentially just a much faster Micro SD card storage device. They both came from MMC cards anyway. In the end it would all have to be custom code regardless, but I would probably base it off some ANSI C or ANSI C++ library and just adapt it with the necessary communication protocols...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    The eMMC costs around $27.62 AUD, it will add a fair amount of cost, your right (considering the FPGA only costs around $16.16 AUD). My plan was purely to have it be an optional feature though, so you could just choose not to get the eMMC NAND chip and save the $27.62. Yes, this actually is...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    I am working on a new component layout. Main changes in this new design is as follows: Replace the Micro USB port with a USB-C port that can be accessed when the flashcart is inserted into the DS. Added the NAND flash, a 16GB (Gigabyte) eMMC onboard storage (the chip on the back of the...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Just realised I misinterpreted what you meant. I actually recon this could be a good idea as a separate thing to this project, as a lot of people already have perfectly functional flashcarts, so what if some module like this could allow these other flashcarts to gain this missing functionality...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Okay, I have the design just about done, all that needs to be added (if I still plan on adding it) is the NAND storage, and some of the power regulation around the raspberry Pi PICO still needs to be fixed or connected. I will likely downgrade the NAND storage to something around 16GB...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Yeah. I didn't think the DSTWO and the LNH DS PICO would be likely to have a similar power draw, that doesn't seem so good...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Power consumption is a major factor, from what I could fine, the RP Pico consumes around 2mA dormant, with apparently something around 25 to 100mA during active use. From what I could find about the Ice40UP series, they consume around 1 to 10mA during active use. The RP Pico's only purpose is...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    I would appreciate some help. I checked and apparently the PCB is not too large to fit inside any kind of shell unlike what I thought (something about it just makes it look too big to fit in anything for some reason). As funny as I think the official way to make this cart would be to buy some...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Okay, I have managed to get a design almost done, it's just missing the Infrared features and the NAND chip. Apart from that, and that I haven't done the ground plane yet, it's basically done. It uses both a RP2040 and an IceBreaker Ice40UP5K, the RP2040 handels all the USB/Mass storage stuff to...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    As far as I can tell, it is never used. It is just grounded in most, if not all, official DS cartridges, and most flashcarts do the same, or use it as a programming pin of some sorts, likely to flash the SPI chips from the factory, or something similar. I think it might require it to be grounded...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    From what I understood, it does start trying to decrypt the data on boot, but it gives you a set amount of time to get the data there and have it decrypted into what the DS is looking for. So, we don't actually need to have data begin to be sent right away, but instead can hold off on sending...
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    Hardware Project Open source flashcart project info

    Your English skills are great (I only speak English by the way), and your paint skills are more then adequate, especially to get across what you are trying to say. Also not using Google Translate is probably making it easier for me to understand what you are saying, Google Translate has it's way...
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