Recent content by SillYcoNe

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    Hacking Where Can I Download This Firmware?

    Respect the work of Normmatt: Get an Acekard and use legit AKAIO.
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    Hacking Fake AK2i @ DX -- where to buy cheap REAL ones...

    What makes you say this card is a clone ? Did you disassemble it ? Did you check with Acekard manufacturer ? Over the past year I ordered 7 AK2i from DX and they are all HWID 8181 and they look exactly the same. The first ones upgrade normally and the very last ones need to be upgraded using the...
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    Hacking Determine wether your AK2i is a clone

    I bought all my cards from DX and they all have the same HWID: 8181. Does this mean that DX sells clones ? Can someone explain why some cards update well and some freeze at 0% and need to be 'updated' with R4 software ? One last information: the issue appeared only on recent shippings from DX...
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    Hacking bricked AceKard 2i after bootloader update

    For what I understand this so-called firmware update just modifies the ID of the cards: instead of presenting itself to the system as Acekard (or whatever for the R4) the update make the cards fake report as a legit game. I guess it's just overwriting a few bytes and those bytes are the same for...
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    Hacking bricked AceKard 2i after bootloader update

    NEWS: Along with my unflashable card, we had 2 other from a friend that is 3 unflashable cards. Then the friend had an idea: as some R4 are basically clones of Acekard, let's try their software. We were able to update all 3 Acekards with R4 software ! Those 3 cards have now been tested in a...
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    Hacking bricked AceKard 2i after bootloader update

    I've got 2 cards from DX at the same time, both say: chip id: 0fc2 hw:8181 I update one without any problem and the other is stuck at 0%. Now let's try to guess what the problem is....
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    Hacking How to Buy An AceKard 2i From DealExtreme

    I ordered 2 on 1/5/2010 This morning I got the shiping notice. Davess, you're my hero
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    ROM Hack Request: Zelda Spirit Tracks Save Converter

    I posted an easy method that worked for me on Acekard here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?s=&showto...t&p=2465822 (basically a concatenation of two copies of the save into one)
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    Hacking Spirit Tracks - convert save

    I recently bought an Acekard 2i the replace that original R4 (very first version) crap. The problem: I was playing LoZ:ST through YsMenu and therefore I had a 512KB .sav We know that the save for LoZ:ST is 1MB. I had already played quite a lot and didn't want to restart from the beginning. I'm...
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