Acekard HWID ??

Zparks · Mar 29, 2010

AK2i
HWID: 81
PCB: Yellow
Ordered through BambooGaming.

sphinx.djc · Mar 29, 2010

Rydian said:
Older real models also had the window/hole.
Tell us the HW ID.

How do I find that out?

Hakoda · Mar 29, 2010

sphinx.djc said:
Rydian said:

Older real models also had the window/hole.
Tell us the HW ID.

Click to expand...

How do I find that out?

Load the AK. Start --> Help. There should something along the lines of "HW:" at the bottom of the popup. That's the HWID. Report back when you can.

sphinx.djc · Mar 29, 2010

Hakoda said:
sphinx.djc said:

Rydian said:

Older real models also had the window/hole.
Tell us the HW ID.

Click to expand...

How do I find that out?

Click to expand...

Load the AK. Start --> Help. There should something along the lines of "HW:" at the bottom of the popup. That's the HWID. Report back when you can.

Just checked the first post and you beat me to it

Alright, mine is HW: 44... Probably its my unfamiliarity of the topic, but is this a good or bad thing?

Another World · Mar 29, 2010

there was one post of a hw44 being a clone... can anyone confirm it?

QUOTE said:
I have a HW ID 44 Acekard 2i. According to AKAIO versions after the 1.4 repack it is a fake.
4.21 offical firmware works, which is where I got the HW ID from.

Of course, the 1.4 repack is supposed to detect fakes according to most posts about it, but it likes my card, unlike 1.6 RC2.

I took the sticker off the front to resolve the logical dissonance of this, and found an Xlinx Spartan chip.

This means telling people that any cart with HW ID 44 is real is useless, unless AKAIO is lying about my cart being fake.

EDIT: The pcb is green, the same color as normal desktop ram sticks. My friend who has a camera should be back late tommorow, so I will post pictures Tuesday night or Wednesday evening after work.

-another world

sphinx.djc · Mar 29, 2010

Another World said:
there was one post of a hw44 being a clone... can anyone confirm it?

QUOTE said:

I have a HW ID 44 Acekard 2i. According to AKAIO versions after the 1.4 repack it is a fake.
4.21 offical firmware works, which is where I got the HW ID from.

Of course, the 1.4 repack is supposed to detect fakes according to most posts about it, but it likes my card, unlike 1.6 RC2.

I took the sticker off the front to resolve the logical dissonance of this, and found an Xlinx Spartan chip.

This means telling people that any cart with HW ID 44 is real is useless, unless AKAIO is lying about my cart being fake.

EDIT: The pcb is green, the same color as normal desktop ram sticks. My friend who has a camera should be back late tommorow, so I will post pictures Tuesday night or Wednesday evening after work.

Click to expand...

-another world

Asides from opening the cart up, to really find out I have to run official firmware correct?

quartercast · Mar 29, 2010

Guys you don't have to open up your Acekard to find out the PCB colour, just take out your microSD and have a look through the hole. You can on mine anyways (AK2i Black HW44).

macgeek417 · Mar 29, 2010

Not that this helps... HW: 81 AK2i Black PCB

And on mine, if you look at the contacts you can see a strip of black where the PCB is showing

go185 · Mar 29, 2010

HW: 0d AKRPG Green PCB

I know it's not a AK2 or AK2i, but I thought it might still be helpful anyway.
(Shouldnt be a clone, as I pre-ordered it before it was released, so it's probably from the first shipment)

sphinx.djc · Mar 29, 2010

quartercast said:
Guys you don't have to open up your Acekard to find out the PCB colour, just take out your microSD and have a look through the hole. You can on mine anyways (AK2i Black HW44).

Alright I took a peak, mines is the same as yours then. AK2i, Black, HW 44, is this good?

MelodieOctavia · Mar 29, 2010

AK2i Black PCB, HWID:80

Sven Viking · Mar 29, 2010

So, as I understand it, this is basically a DRM system attempting to prevent use with pirated versions of a device primarily used for piracy, but inadvertently causing problems for paying customers?

That is in no way ironic.

CannonFoddr · Mar 29, 2010

sphinx.djc said:
quartercast said:

Guys you don't have to open up your Acekard to find out the PCB colour, just take out your microSD and have a look through the hole. You can on mine anyways (AK2i Black HW44).

Click to expand...

Alright I took a peak, mines is the same as yours then. AK2i, Black, HW 44, is this good?

Well AFAIK It's genuine - that's what I have, & it runs AKAIO 1.6RC2 with no problems

Rydian · Mar 29, 2010

Sven Viking said:
So, as I understand it, this is basically a DRM system attempting to prevent use with pirated versions of a device primarily used for piracy, but inadvertently causing problems for paying customers?

That is in no way ironic.

Rydian said:

QUOTE(UltraMagnus @ Mar 28 2010, 05:16 PM) why do people get so worked up about and put so much effort into stopping a pirated piracy device?

Click to expand...

'Cause people don't like it when other people sell their work, and clone flash carts are selling AKAIO.

In the game dev's case, they get paid either way because they made the product and somebody pays them...
But in this case free work is being done (AKAIO is not the official firmware) and somebody else (the clone makers) are making money off it, while the programmers of AKAIO aren't.

The AKAIO clone protection is not causing any problems for legit customers, the white screens and such are a separate problem that they're trying to figure out so they can fix, thus this thread.

SS4 · Mar 29, 2010

Atashi said:
I have an Acekard 2i with the new / non-Actel chip.

HW: 81 SVN: 824

Not sure if you'd call it a yellow PCB or black - the fiberglass board itself is yellow, but most of it is covered by black silkscreen.

-Atashi

I got the same exact one (PCB, HW and SVN), I actually bought 2 within the last year from mygamingmart in toronto and they are both identicals.

Never had any problem and they ran all firmware version perfectly including the latest RC2.

TheChosenBanana · Mar 29, 2010

mine ak2i is HW:81 SVN:824

cman1783 · Mar 29, 2010

TheChosenBanana said:
mine ak2i is HW:81 SVN:824

The 2 in my possession are the same. I'm going to safely assume, that the 4 that I gave as presents are the same since they came all at the same time from the same place.

CannonFoddr · Mar 29, 2010

Atashi said:
I have an Acekard 2i with the new / non-Actel chip....HW: 81 SVN: 824....Not sure if you'd call it a yellow PCB or black - the fiberglass board itself is yellow, but most of it is covered by black silkscreen....

IMHO - I would call it 'black'
Well that's what I'm calling my Ak2i & that's one of the 'older' versions

pecet · Mar 29, 2010

Silver plate/black case acekard2 HW:80

Gollyzila · Mar 30, 2010

Atashi said:
I have an Acekard 2i with the new / non-Actel chip.

HW: 81 SVN: 824

Not sure if you'd call it a yellow PCB or black - the fiberglass board itself is yellow, but most of it is covered by black silkscreen.

-Atashi

I just received this exact one from gamekool.com today. Works perfectly.

Acekard HWID ??

Active Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Emulate the Planet!

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

妁眼のシャナ

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Just your friendly neighborhood Transbian.

Member

Regular GBATemp Lurker

Resident Furvert™

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Regular GBATemp Lurker

Member

New Member

Similar threads

Popular threads in this forum