Did you call me?
Unlaunch is developed by “nocash” as
closed source software. He is the only one that could change unlaunch without a good amount of reverse engineering.
I would also like to have some changes:
- No picture at all for better readability.
- Making some patches optional.
However it is nocash who decides about this! And not some random people complaining in a forum. It is a simple choice:
Take unlaunch as it is… or leave it.
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Being not a developer and not fully understanding the underlying software/facts/”mechanisms” I normally compensate my missing knowledge with a sometimes insane amount of testing:
Trial and error for hours and days. After the testing I dare to express mildly educated statements and opinions. When it comes to the DSi my poor soldering skills prevent me from using this method (I don’t know of any possibilities for unbricking DSi
without soldering.)
General statements like “
Doing ‘X’ is totally safe!!” are a little dangerous in my opinion.
In case of DSi and unlaunch it might actually be true for the average user as the only commonly used software that actually writes to the real NAND-chip is unlaunch itself. Letting the unlauch installer do it’s “magic” and have the process fully reversed afterwards does not seem to carry many risks (other than turning off in the wrong millisecond because of empty battery).
If more modifications have been done to SysNAND, especially to Launcher itself, uninstalling unlaunch
might actually be a death sentence for a DSi – much like uninstalling B9S on 3DS after having console unique data modified or having replaced vital components with custom versions (menu, font).
On one of my DSi consoles I have the suspicion that running the uninstaller might in fact lead to a fullbrick (having done more modification to the SysNAND)
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I still advise against uninstalling unlaunch because I can’t find any important downsides in keeping it. Once configured the average user never has to see the picture again and when used in conjunction with TWiLight Menu++ the patches done to launcher are not a problem either.
