PassMe to remove Health and Safety Warning?

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It is not that hard to do (and I wouldn't want to use a DS without FlashMe because of the &$%§" H&S garbage screen).
I've taken a few photos some time ago (scroll down for DS phat).

The greatest risk is the battery falling out while trying to bridge the contacts. Secure it down with some tape and verify it cannot fall out before attempting FlashMe. NoFlashMe is significantly more dangerous as the original firmware doesn't contain a feature to force boot – a minimum of FlashMe is usually enough to try again if the battery falls out before completion (don't try it though!).
 
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It is not that hard to do (and I wouldn't want to use a DS without FlashMe because of the &$%§" H&S garbage screen).
I've taken a few photos some time ago (scroll down for DS phat).

The greatest risk is the battery falling out while trying to bridge the contacts. Secure it down with some tape and verify it cannot fall out before attempting FlashMe. NoFlashMe is significantly more dangerous as the original firmware doesn't contain a feature to force boot – a minimum of FlashMe is usually enough to try again if the battery falls out before completion (don't try it though!).
I wonder if it would be easier to use a DS stylus as opposed to a tooth pick. Would it make things much easier? Just a curious question.
 
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I wonder if it would be easier to use a DS stylus as opposed to a tooth pick. Would it make things much easier? Just a curious question.
The pointed tip seems too be too short for reaching SL1. The rest of the stylus is too "fat" to fit into the narrow hole.
This is just a guess after rough visual judgement. I didn't try wrapping foil around the stylus on it to see if it reaches down and flashing succeeds.

In any case: Shouldn't be hard to find a suitable tool for this.
 
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The pointed tip seems too be too short for reaching SL-1. The rest of the stylus is too "fat" to fit into the narrow hole.
This is just a guess after rough visual judgement. I didn't try wrapping foil around the stylus on it to see if it reaches down and flashing succeeds.

In any case: Shouldn't be hard to find a suitable tool for this.
I bet that it would need to be the same thickness as a Q-Tip.
 
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I have done it before and it's quite easy and safe if you have the right tools. I didn't tape my battery in but for bridging the pads i used a trick i saw somewhere else many years ago. Basically take a Q-tip with hollow plastic body, cut it on one end and shove a tine amount of aluminium foil in there such that it barely sticks out of the hole. That's it. This tool is fool proof.
 
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You should *absolutely* install FlashMe if you have a compatible device, just don’t be silly about it - bridging SL1 is not difficult and does not require disassembly, it only requires *care*. It will not only allow you to disable warning screens, you’ll also gain compatibility with particularly old flashcarts and gain some level of brick protection (should you ever come across a copy of CrashMe, which is highly unlikely).
 
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You should *absolutely* install FlashMe if you have a compatible device, just don’t be silly about it - bridging SL1 is not difficult and does not require disassembly, it only requires *care*. It will not only allow you to disable warning screens, you’ll also gain compatibility with particularly old flashcarts and gain some level of brick protection (should you ever come across a copy of CrashMe, which is highly unlikely).
CrashMe is an extremely rare trojan, virus, whatever you wish to call it. I highly doubt that you'll ever come across it EVER. Thankfully, antiviruses will be able to detect it immediately after you downloaded it.
 

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CrashMe is an extremely rare trojan, virus, whatever you wish to call it. I highly doubt that you'll ever come across it EVER. Thankfully, antiviruses will be able to detect it immediately after you downloaded it.
Which is a bit of a shame. I remember going out of my way to try finding either CrashMe or DS-Bricker, to no avail. Would be nice to look at it and see how it worked.
 

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Which is a bit of a shame. I remember going out of my way to try finding either CrashMe or DS-Bricker, to no avail. Would be nice to look at it and see how it worked.
Same here. There were two variants of it; one with a still brick wall image and the other being a NSFW anime slideshow.
 

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wow, i never expected this much of a response.
Thank you all for the help!

Im sure i will go for it once my Lite arrives, now that i know what it offers!
(If the Device-version is compatible that is)

@FAST6191 You mentioned alternative versions with features like cheats built in.
That kind of thing is really interesting to me.
Where would i find such Firmwares? Are they related to the "FlashMe" i downloaded in Origin?
What revisions would i need to watch out for that are not compatible with "FlashMe"?
 
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Short version you don't. Anything there was largely proof of concept or requires very specific nowadays junk carts (if you are paranoid about bricking by install you definitely don't want to be updating source code to an embedded device). Similarly nitrohax https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/NitroHax serves much the same functionality (and 100 times better than it ever was) unless this is some kind of competition thing, in which case you have far better methods still and also not really the sort of thing we do around here. If you have a flash cart somehow without cheats (or an engine you don't care to use) there is also DSATM to hardpatch cheats into games https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-auto-trainer-maker-dsatm.80540/ if you can't be bothered to manually hardcode cheats in https://gbatemp.net/threads/crackers-ds-trainer-maker-tutorial.44410/ (old and I have some better guides around but, including a small section in https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-rom-hacking-documentation-project-new-2016-edition-out.73394/ ). Plus save editing, plus dumping save to use cheats on an emulator and flashing back afterwards, possibly plus save state editing if one of your carts has that, plus I don't think the DSone had a real time cheat search on it and that was the DSTwo but I think it at least had nice enable/disable if you can't be bothered to alter a more basic cheat to be button activated https://doc.kodewerx.org/hacking_nds.html ).

As you asked though the replacement firmware with cheats baked in was fwnitro, was a wholesale replacement rather than a mod.

http://fwnitro.caitsith2.net https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/FWNitro https://web.archive.org/web/20071226214742/http://zzo38computer.cjb.net/Nitro2/fwnitro/ for links.

Creebome https://gbatemp.net/download/creebome.29609/ is the other main thing people consider, though the flashme site might also list Loopy's minimal firmware (which I think is original DS only anyway, and if I am not using a basic black background-white text loader for something there is a reason).

I believe it was a pokemon forum I once saw a discussion about hardcoding some cheats in (the firmware space at least on the normal models, though even the Chinese ique one might not do too much better, is too small to do an action replay a like embedded within it with a decent cheat library, more than enough to do things like put a thumb on the scales for the RNG in a single game though) but I never saw anything more. Such people would have been more than capable of doing something in that world too -- they have those quite capable of playing in assembly to do substantial changes and have frequently made tools or substantial forks to existing ones, and figured out hardware quirks for some things in the past too. Might have gone underground but eh, or at least it is the only underground hidden cheats world that never had the drama spill out or people get busted at tournaments and general pokemon hacking world is about as drama filled as it gets at the best of times.

https://cturt.github.io/ds-cfw.html https://github.com/CTurt/cturt.github.io being some links that might be interesting, sadly videos seem to have gone private at some point.

https://gbatemp.net/download/hbfirmware.29610/ for the sake of something else though I don't know much about that one.
 
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@FAST6191 I dont do tournaments or anything like that.
I just really like custom firmwares, softwarehackery and so forth.
Thanks for all the info and links! Gonna look into all of those now and do some extended reading :D
 
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If it is the latest flashme version or the GBA slot focused version prior to that and it is not an ique (Chinese model), Korean model or something then it is compatible.

If you somehow find one of the earliest versions of flashme then it will probably still work, at least enough to boot back into it and flash it with something new, but might lose some functionality or have issues with wifi. I don't know if you could find such a thing these days (might be some mirror somewhere) and these is no point anyway.
 
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If it is the latest flashme version or the GBA slot focused version prior to that and it is not an ique (Chinese model), Korean model or something then it is compatible.

If you somehow find one of the earliest versions of flashme then it will probably still work, at least enough to boot back into it and flash it with something new, but might lose some functionality or have issues with wifi. I don't know if you could find such a thing these days (might be some mirror somewhere) and these is no point anyway.
i found flashme "version 8a final" on the gbatemp wiki.
I assume this is the last one?

Do you personally recommend Flashme over other Custom Firmwares?
 
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i found flashme "version 8a final" on the gbatemp wiki.
I assume this is the last one?

Do you personally recommend Flashme over other Custom Firmwares?
Flashme is a custom firmware, and yes 8a final is the last one I am aware of/way past the point of any incompatibilities.

Any reasons why you want to remove the H&S screen?
It does not bother me as much as when I was whipping the DS 30 times a day to play between lectures, on the bus, at the computer during an evening when videos were on and wanting something to do but I was using one without it the other month and... I don't like it.
 
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