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    Hacking A theory about the Acekard RPG

    A better solution would be to read all the files, sort them, and display them, then go back and read the files to get the icon, etc. The sorting would be by file name and not by the actual DS name, but it's usually close enough. The order might even be cached. Basically, the UI has to not lock...
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    Hacking List of Announced Slot-1 Cards

    Yes, it's true, almost all the cards require patching of the ROMs to make them run, and because they rely on ROMs being made a certain way, they need to be updated whenever Nintendo changes their lib. The only cartridge I know of that does full hardware emulation (no patching required) is the...
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    Hacking A theory about the Acekard RPG

    Bamboogaming.com, and I know how long it took to ship to you Left shanghai on the 10th. (technically shipped on the 9th)
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    Hacking Acekard RPG Cheats

    I'm not sure if the Acekard EEPROM emulation hardware is capable of writing to arbitrary sectors, so the only possible way to implement writing directly to the file would be the way other carts do it - patching the ROM. As you know, this way isn't 100% reliable and hard to get right.
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    Hacking Acekard RPG in germany?

    Basically, the Acekard boots like a normal cartridge, so autoboot slot-1 etc works normally. The 'insta-boot' cards toggle a special 'demo' bit in the header that tells the BIOS to instantly boot. Why this is done, I'm not sure. I think it's used in the demo cartridges at game stores. If you...
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    Hacking A theory about the Acekard RPG

    Wow, deufeufeu, that is great! So my suspicions are confirmed... the Acekard maps the Flash directly into the address space of the parallel bus! This means two things: 1. It should be super easy to modify the bootloader... will have to see though, I really can't tell without a card 2. Games...
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    Hacking Starting a modified AceKart RPG Firmware...

    I was thinking the exact same thing! However, I should probably start the SF project if I get to doing this, because otherwise I feel dirty using Acekard's SVN for something that helps competitors . However, I think it will be most useful on the Acekard, because it won't have commercial loading...
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    Hacking A theory about the Acekard RPG

    I got an idea about how the Acekard RPG works. Maybe it doesn't patch the commercial ROMs at all. It might emulate a real commercial card, and somehow have flash that it programs into one nonfragmented file. That would explain the old original Acekard RPG with its own file system - it didn't...
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    ROM Hack Games that can be ported to the DS

    A lot of you are making requests for games, and the almost always are unoriginal requests for a commercial game to be ported to the DS. Most of these will never happen. To make it more clear why, here are two rules. For a game to be ported to the DS, _one_ of these MUST be satisfied. Even...
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    Hacking Starting a modified AceKart RPG Firmware...

    If I ever make a total redo of the menu, I might consider porting CEGUI (http://www.cegui.org.uk/) to the DS. It's a bit overkill, but that might not be a bad thing for an entirely GUI driven app like the menu.
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    Hacking Starting a modified AceKart RPG Firmware...

    I'm delaying the SF project for now because of this Hmm... too late for a free sample for me A clear case WOULD enhance my productivity, though...
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    Hacking Starting a modified AceKart RPG Firmware...

    WIll make tomorrow. I'm too tired tonight, and I don't want to mess up.
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    Hacking AceCard + EZ Flash 3-1

    There's only one version: inline void setBrightness( u8 level ) {  Âu8 data = PM_ReadRegister(PM_NDSLITE_ADR);  Âif( 0 == (data & PM_NDSLITE_ISLITE) ) // this is not a DS Lite machine    Âreturn;  Âdata &= ~PM_NDSLITE_BRIGHTNESS_MASK;  Âdata |= PM_NDSLITE_BRIGHTNESS(level); Â...
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    Hacking Starting a modified AceKart RPG Firmware...

    Okay, here is what I have for the SF project so far. I'll let you guys check it out before I submit it. Project Name: OpenKard Unix Name: openkard Project Description: OpenKard is a project to improve and expand upon the open-source firmware of the AceKard R.P.G, a flash card for the Nintendo...
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    Hacking Starting a modified AceKart RPG Firmware...

    What license should we use? I'm leaning toward GPL as I'd like to deter other flashcard makers from stealing our code, at least without making their card open source too.
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