Hacking 11.2.0-35 update now released

[Quantumcat]

Why would you keep using something like Windows XP on a computer?

Actually I can only run Age of Empires II on our old XP computer...

There's nothing ReiNAND can do that Luma can't though.

Maybe more like, why use DOS? Modern Windows can run DosBox so no loss of functionality.

 

[gnmmarechal]

There's nothing ReiNAND can do that Luma can't though.

Maybe more like, why use DOS? Modern Windows can run DosBox so no loss of functionality.

DOSBox doesn't behave exactly like DOS does though, and sometimes has issues DOS wouldn't. FreeDOS also sometimes behaves differently from MS-DOS, for example.

 

[Quantumcat]

DOSBox doesn't behave exactly like DOS does though, and sometimes has issues DOS wouldn't. FreeDOS also sometimes behaves differently from MS-DOS, for example.

True! OK, everybody ditch Windows 7, 8 and 10 we're all going back to DOS

 

[Hirobyte]

dgtool 1.1 md5: 60D74F5A0A482360D7D6B329A552DA50
dgtool 1.2 md5: 60D74F5A0A482360D7D6B329A552DA50

 

[zoogie]

PSA: Some big stuff was patched in 11.2.
Do NOT update if unless you have cfw already.

 

[Darksphere92]

PSA: Some big stuff was patched in 11.2.
Do NOT update if unless you have cfw already.

does that mean Dgtool is broken, even after a dsiware downgrade?

 

[zoogie]

does that mean Dgtool is broken, even after a dsiware downgrade?

dgTool works on 11.2.

 

[Posghetti]

does that mean Dgtool is broken, even after a dsiware downgrade?

No, take a look at the guide again, the tool was updated for 11.2 already.

 

[Darksphere92]

dgTool works on 11.2.

well, there is a bug, unless it was just fixed, it says can't open files on SD Card, a few people posted that a page back.

 

[Jacklack3]

This system is more stable then my life.

This post gets more support than my life.

 

[marcoz9999]

im getting the same error

dgtool 1.1 i go down to Downgrade Firm to 10.4, i push A, and then Start and Select to confirm.
it says opening dgTool/firm104_Old.bin and */firm111_Old.bin.

8192/8192 Don't Power Off!
Done!

reErr:0 weErr:0


plus the size of the firm112_OLD.bin is 944kb whereas the firm111_OLD.bin is 4.096kb any thoughts alredy download dgtool compatible with 11.2

 

[Hirobyte]

No, take a look at the guide again, the tool was updated for 11.2 already.

The dgtool 1.2 is wrong:

dgtool 1.1 md5: 60D74F5A0A482360D7D6B329A552DA50
dgtool 1.2 md5: 60D74F5A0A482360D7D6B329A552DA50

 

[Darksphere92]

thanks for making your system more "stable" Nintendo, next their going to release an update that bricks all 3DS and says go buy a Nintendo Switch.

 

[zoogie]

well, there is a bug, unless it was just fixed, it says can't open files on SD Card, a few people posted that a page back.

Yeah, might be because he updated variable names, but not string names.
https://github.com/Plailect/dgTool/blob/master/firmware/nds/dgTool/arm9/source/main.cpp#L220
Should still work fine if firm111_NEW(or OLD).bin is replaced with 11.2's firm.

 

[Darksphere92]

Yeah, might be because he updated variable names, but not string names.
https://github.com/Plailect/dgTool/blob/master/firmware/nds/dgTool/arm9/source/main.cpp#L220
Should still work fine if firm111_NEW(or OLD).bin is replaced with 11.2's firm.

so just rename the file (firm112_OLD.bin) to firm111_OLD.bin?

 

[zoogie]

so just rename the file (firm112_OLD.bin) to firm111_OLD.bin?

Yep.

 

[Nazosan]

Why would you keep using something like Windows XP on a computer?

Actually I can only run Age of Empires II on our old XP computer...

The current rxTools is more akin to Windows Millennium actually. It's an update of an engine that wasn't so bad, but it added a lot of bugs and things have improved a lot outside of that engine since. XP is actually still a very viable OS mostly being pushed out by forced arbitrary obsolescence rather than things it's literally incapable of. That would be more akin to, say, Nintendo forcing developers with various API changes to stop making O3DS games to focus only on the N3DS for example. There are slight differences and the N3DS is improved hardware, but the O3DS is capable of almost all the same stuff.

Well they cant compete against ARM9, they tried to atack the homebrews entrypoint, if I was nintendo would try stop hardmod and dsiware downgrade

How in the heck are they going to "patch" the hardmod method? It involves physically directly accessing the actual storage chip itself. Short of redesigning the system to use a different sort of chip that can't be accessed via a SD reader, there's not much they could do. That wouldn't stop existing systems from being moddable and it would require significant changes both to hardware and software. Actually, it wouldn't stop the new ones from being moddable either, it would simply make it more costly and difficult to actually do it. In fact, specialized hardware is no longer needed for these things now that we have super cheap heavily programmable devices with the ability to connect almost directly to anything like the Arduino or Raspberry Pi.


My big concern here is more simple: if we can access the NAND via exploits and hacks, Nintendo can access it via first party software. What's to stop them from detecting A9LH and simply overwriting it?

 

[Darksphere92]

Yep.

ok well it read it now, i get

1792/8192
Done!

reErr:50 wrErr: 0

did something go wrong or is that fine?

 

[gnmmarechal]

True! OK, everybody ditch Windows 7, 8 and 10 we're all going back to DOS

lol. I keep a couple DOS computers to use some software. You can't get better than the real deal.

 

[Quantumcat]

How in the heck are they going to "patch" the hardmod method

I think you don't understand how hardmod downgrades & DSiWare downgrades work. You are replacing the native firm with an older, exploitable one. All Nintendo has to do is require vital system functions to require the latest native firm. Then, if you try to put in the older one and flash it back as per normal, you'll just boot a black screen or something. Incredibly easy for Nintendo to prevent hardmod and DSiWare downgrades.