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playallday said:
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Nice one, cheers mate. I don't see how it could work but I'm not that technically minded. Gonna go do some more research!
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You just put the DSi firmware instead of the DS Lite bricked firmware and you run a firmware dumper instead of FlashMe.
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No I meant popping out the BIOS while it's still on! lol It might need a new dumper written for the DSi BIOS depending on how the dumper works. If it just grabs x amount of data starting at a certain address it might only be a partial dump, if it has the ability to check the size of the BIOS and grab that amount of data it would work perfectly though if you can hotswap the BIOS.
 
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TrolleyDave said:
playallday said:
TrolleyDave said:
Nice one, cheers mate. I don't see how it could work but I'm not that technically minded. Gonna go do some more research!
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You just put the DSi firmware instead of the DS Lite bricked firmware and you run a firmware dumper instead of FlashMe.
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It might need a new dumper written for the DSi BIOS depending on how the dumper works. If it just grabs x amount of data starting at a certain address it might only be a partial dump, if it has the ability to check the size of the BIOS and grab that amount of data it would work perfectly though if you can hotswap the BIOS.
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Good point. I could help redo the dumper for the DS Lite. That won't be to hard, but we'll need a tester...
 
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i have a dsi and a ds phat....
traded in my ds lite...
and i have experience with opening up dses...
i have a replacement case on my ds phat.
 
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You should inform the people over at this forum, perhaps this is what they're needing to dump the DSi firmware?
 
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Pretty sure the DSi one has more pins.

Seriously guys, Nintendo ISN'T this stupid. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work anyway.
And ok, let's hypothize it would work (and it wouldn't for something like thousand different reasons, and I'm not going to explain them).
You now have a DSi which works like a DS. Whoa awesome aaand... DSi mode is now unreachable. Nice
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And is this GBAtemp's new fad? "Let's find an exploit for DSi?"
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raulpica said:
Pretty sure the DSi one has more pins.
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correct. there are 30 pins on the DS Lite's firmware module, and 50 pins on the module for the DSi

additionally, the fix is only to correct a bricked ds lite which occurred while trying to flash me the ds lite. the ds lite loads the boot strap code in the bios to boot up the system and copies the contents into ram. after that point, you're free to un-plug the module and replace it with the one that was borked and then re-attempt to flash me (or un-flash me the bios).
 
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Why the hell did you guys bump this topic?

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raulpica said:
Pretty sure the DSi one has more pins.
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correct. there are 30 pins on the DS Lite's firmware module, and 50 pins on the module for the DSi

additionally, the fix is only to correct a bricked ds lite which occurred while trying to flash me the ds lite. the ds lite loads the boot strap code in the bios to boot up the system and copies the contents into ram. after that point, you're free to un-plug the module and replace it with the one that was borked and then re-attempt to flash me (or un-flash me the bios).
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Thanks
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